On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:08:50 -0500, Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >As others have said type 5 is semi OK Type 35 records are OK but are >somewhat complex. They have offsets that are almost impossible to >use, probably only SAS and assembler (maybe PL1). But if you only >need start stop date and jobname its probably OK to use type 35. I >have never seen a type 5 record lost in 40 years of working with SMF. > Of course if you don't record type 5 then by all means use type 35. ITYM Type 30 subtype 5. And if he wants return codes, it's really subtype 4 he would want (step end). As for as being "impossible to use", it's a SMOP and there are plenty of examples on the CBT (including DAF). I have a small REXX program (about 200 lines of code) that does exactly what he is looking for also. Unfortunately, I can't share that code because I wrote it for a client. I wouldn't recommend REXX anyway, but that was what the client requested so they could easily modify a "filter section" to select records by jobname, program name, return code, or any combination (and/or logic) etc. Not that an assembler program with "sysin" selection criteria couldn't have been written... but time is money and I threw together a REXX program quickly - besides, I am not what I would call a good assembler programmer. :-) And before someone asks how I read SMF records with REXX, there has to be an IDCAMS pre-process step to convert the records from VBS to VB. I'm assuming the OP doesn't have SAS, but if he does... he should get MXG (what does it cost now, 10K?) and let MXG do all the work for him. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS 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
