John McKown wrote: >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.
Good idea. That is if that 'refomartter' knows how to handle records with unknown record length. SMF type 30 is a good example. >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). Not to discourage you, but what about SMF records type 30 with variable lengths? How will you handle this? I'm just curious. >Back to my hole. No! Come back! If you can market your 'reformatter', you will get rich! :-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
