One wonderful thing that the RACF people have been doing lately is the ability to reformat their SMF data into XML format. This made me wonder. Does anybody else think that this would be useful for most, if not all, of the SMF data? One reason that I like it very much is that I can then ftp the XML formatted data to a PC and run data reduction and report programs on the data more easily than if I had to write the code myself. Especially since IBM (or the vendor which produces the SMF data) would hopefully find it easier to keep the translator in sync with the actual format of the data.
This was triggered mainly by our loss of SAS on the mainframe. It appears that our main performance person may get a Windows SAS license. But that means that only he can do SAS stuff. With XML, I can more easily write my own stuff in Java or a number of other languages which can handle XML (such as Perl and even COBOL). Oh, well, more a Friday topic than a Monday one, I guess. Back to my hole. -- John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
