I'd say generation of XML was pretty cheap. It's the parsing that's expensive.
Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: Frank Swarbrick <frank.swarbr...@yahoo.com> To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu, Date: 07/24/2012 06:14 PM Subject: Re: useful? XML "encoded" SMF. Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu> Isn't "System XML" limited to parsing of XML, not generation of XML. I could very well be wrong, but I seem to recall hearing/reading that somewhere. >________________________________ > From: "McKown, John" <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com> >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 9:59 AM >Subject: Re: useful? XML "encoded" SMF. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List >> [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of David Crayford >> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 10:48 AM >> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >> Subject: Re: useful? XML "encoded" SMF. >> >> Don't hipster programmers prefer JSON these days? XML too verbose. > >OK, I'd accept JSON. I went with XML because IBM has "System XML", which can use a zIIP (or is it a zAAP?). Also, nothing on z/OS uses JSON at present. And there are not as many tools, such a XSLT, to process JSON (yet). > >Also, those same "hipster programmers" are switching to NoSQL due to SQL being "too slow" (and likely "too difficult"). Curiously, VSAM could validly be called a NoSQL database. > >-- >John McKown >Systems Engineer IV >IT > >Administrative Services Group > >HealthMarkets(r) > >9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 >(817) 255-3225 phone * >john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com > >Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
