Hi Bruce,
I am sure as a adhoc tool FDREPORT is more flexible. The advantage of
the disk space reports in RMF III is that they collect minimal data all
the time on an interval basis and the data is available in a tool which
is already available to all the system staff which they are familiar
with. Vendors don't bother calling we know your fine products are
available:-)
DTS has a very nice product SCC which can feed similar data to a MySQL
database and provides slick GUI for realtime analysis.
TMONMVS v4.0 is supposed to have some nice SMS related display
enhancements.
There is an OMEGAMON for Storage conveniently located next to OMEGAMON
for z/OS, CICS, DB2, IMS, etc.
Etc. etc. etc.
RMF is something a great many of us have and it's good to see IBM doing
enhancements in addition to just keeping the same metrics working
accurately in new releases. I think the market penetration for RMF is
probably higher than for any one specialized storage solution so all RMF
users have a shared interest in enhancements. RMF is not free and I
think many folks would like to get more out of it instead of buying
OMEGAMON for Storage.... Or
Best Regards,
Sam Knutson, GEICO
Performance and Availability Management
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
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Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 12:34 PM
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Subject: Re: RMF Monitoring SMS Storage Groups and Disk Space in z/OS R7
Sam, since Geico is licensed for FDREPORT, you may want to look at the
reporting faciliites in that program. It can provide dataset and volume
level reports, with complete customizaiton, selection, sorting and
summarization. There are examples in the manual (sect 54). We also
provide a set of predefined reports called the "Innovation Health Check"
which uses FDREPORT do check for unusual conditions and also to provide
summary reports (also doc in sect 54). FDREPORT can save its results in
a file so that you can report on the data multiple ways without having
to recollect the data.
I don't know specifically what those RMF III reports do, but I am sure
that FDREPORT can do it faster and more flexibly. It is run as a batch
job so you can collect the data on whatever system you prefer.
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Bruce A. Black
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