"Ad hoc SMF reporting" might be a good fit for Tivoli Decision Support for z/OS, with or without its various options (such as Usage and Accounting Manager) depending on your requirements.
I believe CA also has something in this category. My guess would be some combination of CA SMF Director, CA JARS Resource Management, and/or CA MICS Resource Management. Macro4's ExpeTune does at least some SMF reporting. I suspect I'm forgetting other possibilities., SAS, of course, is quite powerful and offers a lot of general purpose flexibility. I'm quite fond of SAS having done some substantial econometric analysis with it. Arguably I received a better diploma thanks to SAS, so I guess I'm biased. I should ask if you've investigated a "penalty box" solution. A typical penalty box pattern is to have a disaster recovery system such as a 2096-A01 (z9 BC) or 2086-110 (z890) with Capacity Backup (CBU) protecting a larger (and often growing) primary system. You might have disk replication between the two sites/systems so that it's easy to shuttle SMF (and other) data over to the other site. (Bonus points for Parallel Sysplex or even some form of GDPS.) Quite often you'd keep "N" level hardware for primary production (e.g. z9 BC) and "N-1" for disaster recovery/penalty box (e.g. z890). There are other patterns, and I'm also assuming here that SMF report processing is containable within a much smaller system capacity. Also, do you think the value of the SMF reports SAS delivers matches up with the cost? (How "real" is the problem, basically?) - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [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
