On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:54:52 +0200, R.S. <[email protected]> wrote: <snip> >My $0.02: >I saw some SMF reformatters. Home-made and commercial. IMHO the problem >lies not in the format of the SMF records, rather in the *meaning* of >the data. For example I can reformat RACF records using IRRADU00 tool, >but the out is still invaluable for the person who doesn't know RACF. > From the other hand DAF analyzes several SMF records - I even cannot >say which ones - but the output is very valuable for me. That means the >tool is good (thank you Michel!) and ...I understand some basics of the >things being analyzed. >I doubt that "general SMF reformatter" would be valuable - a lot of >work, but the output is still hardly understandable, because no one >knows (and no one is interested in) all the SMF recors. > >-- >Radoslaw Skorupka >Lodz, Poland
I see your point. If I understand you, you'd prefer good "canned" reports which read SMF and give useful information, rather than something which transforms SMF data into another format which might be easier to process in "non traditional" languages. I guess for SMF, the only real traditional languages are HLASM and SAS. So you feel that the cost (to whomever) would be high while the benefit (to others) would be low. You're most likely correct. I guess I'm just gabby today because nobody else is in the office from my group. -- 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
