On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:39:48 -0400, Richards.Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I think Manage/SMF was one of them. Not content to have a very useful >product, they imbedded it into CA-JARS. In the last couple of years it >was been split out again as SMF Director, but they want too many $$$ for >a functionality that most sysprogs developed a workaround for 20 years >ago. > I used that product at my first job. I liked it. It was thrown in as a freebie with a bunch of other products as part of a huge software contract with CA for one of the MVS environments that supported a bank. Every CA product known to man kind ran on that system (years later that helped me when consulting since I worked with sooooo many CA products). Was it part of JARS or just given the JARS brand name? ISTR it being named JARS/SMF. At any rate, you are correct about the cost. One of my clients was looking at getting it and I remember that the cost seemed very high. But it was very convenient to just say "give me SMF data from this date to that date" and not worry about data set names, exact run times and split offs, 4 weeks in a month or 5, etc. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group: G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
