On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 12:59:23 -0600, Walt Farrell wrote: >On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 12:30:23 -0600, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: > >>But I was curious if anybody has ever used anything else, such as Java, to >>process SMF data on a Windows or Linux box? Or is that just too crazy? > >If you did decide to use Java, why does that require moving the data off of >z/OS? > Good question. I know that John is an NFS user (at least Linux server; z/OS client). I believe that SMF data are RECFM=VBS. I know that if a VBS file is overridden to RECFM=U it can be reconstructed from the RDWs (I've done it in Rexx with an IEBCOPY-unloaded library). But is there any way to trick the z/OS NFS server into presenting an SMF log to the client as such a byte stream?
The alternative is to override to RECFM=U,FILEDATA=BINARY in JCL and IEBGENER to the Linux NFS server. Does Java on z/OS understand RECFM=VBS legacy data sets? What's the relative cost of CPU cycles on z/OS vs. desktop? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
