M Hunter on IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 06/25/2010 06:56:17 AM: > SAS is gone - long live ... ICETOOL? > > I know I'm not the only one to suffer this, but "management" have decided
> that SAS is too expensive and as it is only used by the technical group (OK, > I'm the only one who writes it, though others use the reports) it has got to > go. Frankly, I'm surprised I managed to hold on to it for so long. > > So, what to replace it with? There's no money to buy a replacement (not > even a SAS windows licence) so I'm limited to existing software only. That > basically means z/OS and DFSORT. > > Forgetting about SMF and MXG for the moment, most of the other reports > process data from DCOLLECT and RACF IRRDBU, IRRADU. One feature that is > used a lot is PROC SUMMARY (or PROC MEANS) to group (sum) data for a > subset, for example by high-level qualifier, or part of dsname. > > I'm happy with REXX but a novice with ICETOOL, my ICETOOL experience > being limited to tinkering with sample reports. Does anyone have any hints, > gotchas, examples for how I might replace my reports? Perhaps Mark Nelson's RACFICE2 package would be of interest. It uses DFSORT's ICETOOL to produce various RACF reports. You can find details on RACFICE2 at:. http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/features/racf/downloads/racfice.html You might also want to post your question on the racf-l list - I've seen discussions of other "packages" that use DFSORT's ICETOOL for reports there. Or contact Mark Nelson directly ([email protected]). Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM) - [email protected] Specialties: JOINKEYS, FINDREP, WHEN=GROUP, ICETOOL, Symbols, Migration => DFSORT/MVS is on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
