'Sick Puppy' ? I thought that was the definition of mainframe systems programmers... Could you use the recfm/lrecl of the output datasets to trigger conversion from EBCDIC to ASCII? Also a good SMF Reformatter should also include selection criteria so that I do not have to send ALL the SMF data if I am only interested in Job/Step data. /Tom Kern
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:57:44 -0500, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: >On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:47:09 -0500, Mark Zelden <[email protected]> >wrote: >>On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:51:03 -0500, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>You are one sick puppy. :-) >> > >That's not exactly "new and unknown" information around here! <grin> > >As an extra, added bonus, the SMF to XML processor should optionally >compress the data (zip, gzip, or bzip2) in order to take up less space and >transmit faster to the far end. Taking a queue from the RACF SMF >post-processor, which is used is selected via the existence of a specific DD >name. > >//XML DD outputs without compression > >//XMLGZIP DD outputs with gzip compression > >//XMLBZIP DD outputs with bzip2 compression > >//XMLZIP DD outputs as a ZIP file. > >For extra credit, how to specify that the data in the compressed file should >be converted from EBCDIC (CP-037?) to ASCII (ISO-8859-1 or maybe UTF-8?). >Using a PARM is so plebeian that it doesn't count! > >-- >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
