Hopefully your management is taking a curious look at what SAS features are being used and how it benefits the enterprise/organization. For example, I cannot see DFSORT generating a PDF document on z/OS and publishing the content directly to an HTML-formatted web page. In serious terms, Frank Yaeger's team at IBM has an incredible product with DFSORT, I must submit. Input parsing and output-formatting features/enhancements are quite valuable and are becoming indispensable. Now, if we could offload some DFSORT processing to a zIIP, Frank?
Okay, so consider that you may want to use SAS (and MXG) to determine who is using SAS (various SMF record types for discovery), then go survey those individuals about what SAS components, specific features, functions, facilities within SAS are being used. Then, attempt to rank those processes in 'business importance' terms, so a suitable replacement can be considered, evaluated, priced, etc. Scott Barry SBBWorks, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
