On 20 Apr 2009 09:57:49 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >David Andrews pisze: >> On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 10:51 -0400, John McKown wrote: >>> Does anybody else think that [SMF data as XML] would be useful for >>> most, if not all, of the SMF data? >> >> Some places generate an awful lot of SMF data! >> >>> 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). >> >> (... or Lisp!) From your outboard system it would be relatively easy to >> feed your RDBMS of choice. So yes, I think that would be worthwhile. >> > >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.
Actually, I be happier with a general tool that could process ALL IBM GUPI data area descriptions and produce COBOL record descriptions, PL1 descriptions, C structures and Java descriptions. Why the blank should I have to code all of the information needed to call the Catalog Search Interface, Program Object interface or read SMF records? XML could just be an added output. COBOL would have to be enhanced for 1 byte binary and bit switch fields but there are already SHARE requirements outstanding to provide this. The need is decades old and the standard now has the means to do so (USAGE BIT, logical operations and USAGE BINARY CHARACTER). > >-- >Radoslaw Skorupka >Lodz, Poland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
