I'm not that familiar with it but the RMF Spreadsheet Reporter might povide you with some z/OS performance reporting. I'm pretty sure it comes with RMF so it probably meets your requirement of being something you already have.
Have a nice day, Dave Betten DFSORT Development, Performance Lead IBM Corporation email: bet...@us.ibm.com DFSORT/MVSontheweb at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort/ IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> wrote on 02/26/2009 11:07:43 AM: > I realize that most people likely use SAS for SMF reporting. We did this in > the past. Management has declared that SAS on the z is simply too expensive. > They also declared that installing the Windows version on our main user's PC > is also too expensive. End of discussion on that point. > > So, what else could be used? It must either be something that we already > have, such as COBOL, EasyTrieve Plus (without the SMF add on), REXX, HLASM, > ... . We cannot spend any "hard money" on this. Oh, it would be nice if if > were very CPU efficient because we just downgraded our z9BC from a V02 to a > T02 in order to save on software costs. And it must be such that doing "ad > hoc" requests can be responded to quickly. Yes, I know, "give me the world, > but don't spend any money". > > I am actually looking at downloading the raw SMF data to a Linux box (my > desktop) using BINary and SITE RDW. I did this for last week's SMF and had > about 14Gib of data. I know how to read this with Java. This may actually be > what I end up looking at doing. But I am the only person in my group who is > even mildly Java literate. The main performance person is not. And he > doesn't have access to my PC anyway. Of course, that is one reason that I'm > looking at Java. I have written Java in the past (minor application) which > truly was "run anywhere". At least it ran, as compiled on the Linux box, on > 32 bit Linux/Intel, 64 bit Linux/Intel, Mac OS/X, 32 bit Windows, and on the > z. I just transferred the jar file and ran it. > > Any thoughts or commiserations appreciated. > > -- > 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
