What's SAS on Winders cost? I thought it was pretty cheap, almost pocket change?
Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of John McKown > Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 8:49 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: SMF reporting question > > On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:32:49 -0600, Mark Zelden > <mark.zel...@zurichna.com> > wrote: > > > > >What does "hard money" mean. Zero? > > Correct. "Hard money" means a check made out to somebody. "Soft money" > is > possible, but that basically means that __we__ do something to get the > report so our salary is paying for it. > > > > >What kind of reporting? Just SMF30 accounting type? Did you look > >at the CBT? There are samples there. I've done some stuff in rexx > >(report on steps, return codes, abends etc.). Although I'm not > suggesting > >that since REXX can't deal with spanned records (I reproed them from > >VBS to VB for this - which was okay for the SMF 30s). This was for a > >client so I can't share the code, but it was mostly for some ad-hoc > stuff > >the team lead / mgr wanted, so I had some pre-canned "filter" code: > > That's the main problem. It may be type 30. But it may be "who used > this > dataset?" (we downloaded DAF for this from the CBT already). Or it may > be > CICS performance (which transactions use the most CPU, most file calls, > etc). I think most of this latter can come out of Mainview for CICS. > > The main problems are: (1) extreme vagueness as to what is wanted; (2) > lack > to knowledge and experience with other possibilities for processing "ad > hoc" > requests of SMF information. > > Another thought is to convert the SMF data from its normal form to a > "printable" XML format which could then be downloaded to a PC (Windows > or > Linux) and more easily processed there using "normal" PC tools. > > I'm grasping at straws, I know. Thanks to all for not being too P.O.'ed > at me. > > -- > John > > -- > John > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu 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 lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
