We use RMF Spreadsheet reporter. The customer does not have SAS or MXG. It has lots of canned graphs for z/OS things. It comes complete with RMF. We include a lot of these graphs in our monthly technical report to management. The tool is not user friendly but it does the job. It will not address the who is using or CICS things. I have taken the 30 record and built a cut down flat file (no repeat sections) which I can report on easily. I used assembler - you get the mappings with z/OS - so easier to use. Certainly look at using RMF Spreadsheet Reporter. Then look elsewhere for the others.
Terry Draper zSeries Performance Consultant w...@btopenworld.com mobile: +966 556730876 --- On Thu, 26/2/09, David Betten <bet...@us.ibm.com> wrote: From: David Betten <bet...@us.ibm.com> Subject: Re: SMF reporting question To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: Thursday, 26 February, 2009, 7:17 PM 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
