John, We migrated from SAS (z/OS) to WPS last month at our (newly IBM) site. We only use SAS in batch, and we don't heavily use MXG's PDB processing, having TDS for that stuff. But we use MXG with WPS for some daily and 'Ad Hoc' reporting. For basic SAS processing, WPS is a fine replacement. Very little SAS code had to be adpated in our case. If you're using many graphic functions and/or ODS code, you might experience some gaps. Altough WPS is a young product, they're enhancing it intensively. Performance was dramatically enhanced in V2.3.1. On CPU consumption, WPS is twice as hungry as SAS. WPC's (http://www.teamwpc.co.uk/home) support is fine. If you need any other information, feel free to contact me off the list.
>Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:51:12 -0500 >From: "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: replacing SAS for SMF reports? > >Well, it looks like SAS is pricing itself out of our range. Or >management is just doesn't think that we are getting our moneys worth or >... > >Anyway, other than using HLASM or maybe <shudder> COBOL, anybody have >any suggestions how to easily do some "ad hoc" type SMF reporting? What >would be really nice would be some sort of SMF to XML output program. I >really like the IRRADU00 output (RACF SMF data translated to XML). I >download that to my PC and run Java against it. If necessary, I could >even develop and test the Java code on my PC and run the application on >the mainframe once it is working. (or use Co:Z to ship the XML to my >Linux system and run the code there with the response going back to the >mainframe). > >-- >John McKown >Senior Systems Programmer >HealthMarkets >Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage >Administrative Services Group >Information Technology > Regards, Coen Wessels _________________________ IBM Suisse Centre de Compétence Bancaire Av. de la Vallombreuse 100 CH - 1008 Prilly Téléphone : +41 (0)27 327 4271 Mobile : +41 (0)78 803 2621 IBM : +41 58 333 46 07 Fax : +41 (0)27 327 4255 Mon adresse IBM est [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
