If the OP's issue is "I hear we're losing SAS and I really want it to help
with RACF reporting" there are alternatives that are without incremental
cost.
It's possible to develop a complete reporting system based on IRRDBU00
output using DF/SORT, ICE, etc. It's not difficult programming (since I, a
mediocre programmer, did it) once an understanding of the record layouts is
gained. Learning the content of RACF Macros and Interfaces is essential,
regardless of the methods employed.
I used to use SAS because I'd merge some record types to produce some nice
composite reports. I gave that up when DF/SORT introduced "splice" several
years ago.
A previous post mentioned formatting into PDF. IIRC there are some CBT
tools that do that, once a dataset is created. Perhaps someone could
confirm??
Is DB2 an option? If so, SYS1.SAMPLIB is all you need.
How about RACF add-ons from the usual OEM suspects? Expensive to be sure,
but how important is it to obtains results?
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Elardus Engelbrecht
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 11:52 AM
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Subject: Re: DFSORT date question
Ted MacNEIL wrote:
>At the last site I worked at, I managed to justify SAS only because SAS
Institute intsituted sub-capacity licensing (finally).
When we were dropping SAS, I asked local SAS staff about sub-capacity
licensing. I got that 'deer eyes in the spotlight' expression.
They even tried to rub a more expensive data warehouse thing onto me when
they finally saw they couldn't stop me from dropping SAS
BASE/ADABAS/DB2/CONNECT.
I will not even start the thing that software vendors hijack your hardware
and
CPU upgrades to raise their fees.
Ok, enough vendor bashing and ranting about vendors.
Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht
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