Been there, done that, wrote the paper. My method was presented at CMG '07 as a late breaking paper. It seems that it's not in the proceedings, at least I can't find it searching the CMG archives, which is kind of annoying--presumably something to do with being a late breaking paper. It was published in the Journal in 2008, if you happen to have those back issues, but again I don't see them in electronic form on cmg.org.
My technique is, as you are thinking about, JavaScript running in the browser, periodically (shortly after the RMF interval) pulling the XML from the DDS. We actually have 4 separate sysplexes, so I can pull data from all 4 sysplexes and present it on one consolidated screen. And integrate it with historical data as well. Not too difficult, and even easier if you can be allowed access to one of the common JS libraries. The negative is having to make multiple requests per interval per sysplex per user. For a few users the overhead is trivial, but I wouldn't expect my solution to scale to scores or hundreds of users. And over a slow network link it's not ideal. I'm currently thinking about writing a newer version that would use a started task (probably written in Java so it could run on a zAAP) that would do the RMF DDS queries and emit a single consolidated XML stream. In short, your idea is quite doable. If you're interested in the paper, send me a message of list and I'll get it to you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
