Perl provides both data manipulation and statistical functions and, off the mainframe, is used to manipulate data before processing with R. It's part of the ported tools for USS www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/unix/perl/index.html . It is nowhere near as fast as SAS but it is free and has a wide user base.
Walter Medenbach On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:51 AM, McKown, John < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, it looks like SAS is pricing itself out of our range. Or > management is just doesn't think that we are getting our moneys worth or > ... > > Anyway, other than using HLASM or maybe <shudder> COBOL, anybody have > any suggestions how to easily do some "ad hoc" type SMF reporting? What > would be really nice would be some sort of SMF to XML output program. I > really like the IRRADU00 output (RACF SMF data translated to XML). I > download that to my PC and run Java against it. If necessary, I could > even develop and test the Java code on my PC and run the application on > the mainframe once it is working. (or use Co:Z to ship the XML to my > Linux system and run the code there with the response going back to the > mainframe). > > -- > John McKown > Senior Systems Programmer > HealthMarkets > Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage > Administrative Services Group > Information Technology > > The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged > and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are > not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, > reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is > strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal > offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the > sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing > it. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
