FAQ

You can find some frequently asked questions on this page. If you have other questions you may take a look at https://github.com/IBM/IBM-SMF-Explorer/discussions or open new discussion there.

If you want to add your own dependencies, you can create a requirements.txt file in the root directory of the IBM-SMF-Exporer directory. To add your requirements, follow the instructions from the official pip documentation (https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/cli/pip_install/#requirements-file-format).

When you create or change your requirements-file, simply run the setup (setup.bat on Windows) script to install your dependencies.

Try to avoid pip freeze to create your custom requirements.txt file. Using the freeze command could override dependencies that are required by SMF Explorer, leading to a broken environment.

The first thing to do, if you face issues with your setup, is to run the setup command with the reset option. This will reinstall your setup from scratch.

.\setup.bat [-Reset]

./setup [--reset]

If resetting your environment does not solve the issue or you found issues with IBM SMF Explorer itself, you can open a discussion on Github or open an issue.

Processing SMF data can be very resource intensive. If you face errors concerning insufficient resources you can take some steps to still be able to request the data you want:

• Split the SMF dump into multiple parts and fetch the data separately
• Sort the SMF dump
• Increase the amount of main storage available to the z/OS Data Gatherer: SMF Data REST Services server.