Extracting SMF records : SORT vs IFASMFDP

The below job demonstrates two approaches to extracting SMF record types 70 to 79 from a weekly SMF dataset.

The goal is to compare the performance of the SORT utility and the IFASMFDP utility.
 
Test job
 
//SORT    EXEC PGM=SORT                                     
//SORTIN DD   DISP=SHR,DSN=SMF.WEEKLY.FILE          
//SORTOUT  DD DSN=USERID.SMF7079.SORT,                     
//            DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE),                      
//            DATACLAS=DCTLARGE,                            
//            SPACE=(CYL,(100,100),RLSE),                   
//            DCB=(RECFM=VBS,BLKSIZE=0,LRECL=32760,DSORG=PS)
//SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=*                                        
//SYSIN DD *                                                
 OPTION COPY,VLSHRT                                         
 INCLUDE COND=(06,1,CH,GE,X'46',AND,    SMF TYPE 70         
               06,1,CH,LE,X'4F')        SMF TYPE 79         
//*                                                         
//IFASMFDP   EXEC PGM=IFASMFDP                                
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*                                      
//INDD1    DD DISP=SHR,DSN=SMF.WEEKLY.FILE          
//OUTDD1   DD DSN=USERID.SMF7079.IFASMFDP,                 
//            DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE),                      
//            DATACLAS=DCTLARGE,                            
//            SPACE=(CYL,(100,100),RLSE),                   
//            DCB=(RECFM=VBS,BLKSIZE=0,LRECL=32760,DSORG=PS)
//SYSIN    DD *                                            
 INDD(INDD1,OPTIONS(ALL))                                  
 OUTDD(OUTDD1,TYPE(70:79))                                 
 START(0000)                                               
 END(2359)                                                 
/*                                                         
 
Job performance data
 

Step	EXCP	Conn	TCB Time	Elapsed Time	CPU Time
SORT	93,346	209K	6.64 sec	3:47.52	6.75 sec
IFASMFDP	1,403,000	308K	12.09 sec	6:40.17	16.16 sec

 
 

• SORT completed in nearly half the time of IFASMFDP.
• CPU usage for IFASMFDP was more than double that of SORT.
• EXCP count (I/O operations) was significantly higher for IFASMFDP

 
Use SORT for quick and lightweight SMF record extraction.
Of course if you need complex SMF record extraction, you would need go with IFASMFDP.