Okay... That makes perfect sense. Sorry, but I missed the "number of tapes issue". Was that because of the quantity of SMF data from the vendors products or just keeping their data separate from all the rest?
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 1:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: identify sas usage by component On Feb 1, 2008, at 7:39 AM, Gary Green wrote: > I just glanced at this before I head off for something else, and I may > not understand fully what you're saying... > > Why would you need to "own the programs"? The possible solution I > offered up should work without any vendor programs being touched. > > Basically, the SMF records are intercepted by YOUR IFASMFDP exits > before they are dumped , and modified ever so slightly. The vendors > programs have nothing to do with this. By the time the records are > intercepted, the vendor's code has already forgotten about them. > > If the processing of the SMF data in question is all in-house, this > should work just fine. Even if the SMF data dose go out of house, > code another couple of exits for IFASMSFDP to reverse the > modifications and then dump the data to, say, tape for sending the > data out. > > Does this make sense? > -----------------Yes/no.... The auditors were vocal about any change to raw smf data. We looked into doing a transformation ourselves and presented it to the auditors and they said "NO" well... if we did we had to maintain unedited copy and we were back to square one with the number of tapes issue. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
