Last week, we produced 35,746,835 output records for the reformatted
RACF (IRRADU00 output). This blew our processing. The previous week was
only 7,555,827 records. Two weeks ago only 4,896,905 records. And three
weeks ago, only 2,470,655 records. Of course, the question is "what
happened?!?"
I'm trying to process this information using SAS. So far in about 3 wall
clock hours, I've read 5 of the 21 input tapes (virtual 3490E - MEDIA2).
My SAS output dataset, so far, is 250,500 tracks and 166 extents on 11
of 30 possible output DASD volumes, and still growing.
In the last analysis, due to lack of z/OS DASD space, I may end up
trying to download this data to a large USB drive (taking
who-knows-how-long) and taking it home to process (on my Athlon64 system
- work system is 1.8Ghz Celeron which is fine for normal stuff).
Can anybody give me any ideas that may be better to determine what
caused this massive increase in records? I have determined that the
majority of records are of type ACCESS, subtype SUCCESS. I.e. successful
access to a RACF resource. Unfortunately, our corporate security gurus
demand that all production access be audited as well as all accesses to
all resources done by all programmers, production control people, tech
services, et al. (I.e. they are all UAUDIT). I am drowning in data with
no DASD space or CPU to process it.
Just to let you know, I did a subset using the following SORT control
cards:
OPTION VLSHRT
SORT FIELDS=COPY
INCLUDE COND=(5,8,CH,NE,C'ACCESS',OR,
(5,8,CH,EQ,C'ACCESS',AND,
14,8,CH,NE,C'SUCCESS'))
The output:
ICE054I 0 RECORDS - IN: 35420715, OUT: 298026
you do the math: 35,122,689 records were for successful accesses due to
auditing!
Again, any ideas as to how to find out "what happened?". I am fairly
sure that my SAS job is going to die due to lack of DASD space. I tried
to put the SAS database to tape, but got a message to the effect that
the engine did not support tape in that manner. Oh, using SAS 9.1.3 on
z/OS 1.6.
Thanks much. Condolences also accepted.
--
John McKown
Senior Systems Programmer
HealthMarkets
Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage
Administrative Services Group
Information Technology
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