You would have more chance convincing vendors to write something if you
at least pretended you might pay money for it ;-)
I don't think it would be particularly difficult to incorporate output
to XML into EasySMF, but I'm not convinced that SMF data in XML format
would be generally useful. The volume of SMF data is difficult enough to
deal with in binary form. XML would be worse. Are the XML reporting
programs really able to cope with the quantity of data that comes from SMF?
Regards
Andrew Rowley
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Andrew Rowley
Black Hill Software Pty. Ltd.
Phone: +61 413 302 386
EasySMF for z/OS: Interactive SMF Reports on Your PC
http://www.smfreports.com
On 25/07/2012 2:46 AM, McKown, John wrote:
In my case, it is strictly due to the lack of tools on z/OS. We used to have
SAS and MXG. That was perfect. We then lost SAS due to cost. So we ran MXG on a
PC running SAS. But that was then considered to be too expensive too. So we
lost SAS and MXG. We now have _nothing_ and no money to buy anything. But
management would still like to see graphs and charts. So we have a few HLASM
in-house written programs. Which extract some information which is downloaded
to a PC running Excel. Which is used to make the pretty pictures so beloved by
management. In addition to this, our management is still pushing us to try to
reduce our Group Capacity cap so that we will save even more money due to
reduced license costs.
So, if I could have XML formatted SMF data, I could easily download and process
that on my Linux desktop. Because Linux, and the software I run on it, does not
cost the company anything other than electricity to run the PC. And I have many
tools on my Linux system which can process XML and then create graphs from the
processd data.
IOW, it is not "enthusiasm ... against all rational argument", it is for my
convience due to lack of money. If management didn't want the graphs, I wouldn't care one
bit about SMF -> XML. And yes, I could write it myself. But my manager is against that
due to the necessity of our doing maintenance to any in house written code if IBM makes
changes to an SMF record that we use.
So, in reality, there is no real reason to think that IBM, and other vendors,
would be interested in this. But dreaming is still free.
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