I would like to access RMF3 DDS Data Portal (GPMSERVE) XML feeds programmatically, and am having a bit of a tough time getting anywhere.
I should state that I have already successfully setup multiple data feeds from our RMF3 Data Portal going into an Excel spreadsheet, and messed with it in that manner, and that works just great, but I don't really want to use this as a presentation vehicle going forward, as I envisage the maintenance overhead potentially becoming substantial, and I dont really want to get into having to create a pile of VBA to try to get it to auto-maintain itself!! Plus, Excel doesn't cope very well with some of the XML feeds when they aren't in a regular tabular format. What I ideally want to end up with is a self-contained Web Browser solution (i.e. client-side only - no "servers" involved, other than the Data Portal data source), which I can then use to present semi-customised views of useful RMF metrics in ways that make sense (which in many cases has to have a degree of intelligence behind it - e.g. glueing multiple "CPC" views of CECs together to get a 1-page CPU overview of a multi-CEC, multi-sysplex environment - which is kinda what I've already done in Excel, but I don't feel its an ideal way to go) I anticipate this should be technically possible with Javascript, which would be preferable for me as I have dealt with quite a lot of that already, but if other coding solutions are the answer, I am happy to sit down & learn whatever's necessary. If anyone is able to point me in the right direction to get me started with accessing the DDS data feeds programmatically, I would be most grateful. Thanks. Graham Harris ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
