John, XML parsing is pretty slow, and for that reason many web technologies are moving to other "serialization" techniques.
Some better alternatives may include: JSON, "Blaze", Hessian, Google Protocol Buffers, etc. All have multiple language bindings, etc. For this purpose, you want something that can have a "metamodel" or schema description, which is really what SMF records lack.... yeah there are DSECTS, but nothing semantic that can be used to piece them together for nested records, etc. Best would be to build an Object model for SMF and then have "pluggable" serialization of the data. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:51 AM, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
