You might be interested in EasySMF: http://www.smfreports.com
You can view charts on your PC without going through the rigmarole of RMF Spreadsheet Reporter. Right click on the charts to copy to the clipboard and paste into other applications.
I haven't used RMF Spreadsheet Reporter (I tried a long time ago, but the process seemed so convoluted I was sure there was something I didn't understand) but EasySMF has a few features that I don't think RMF Spreadsheet reporter can do: - Click through many of the reports to see related or more detailed information - Drag on charts to zoom in and get a more detailed view of interesting time periods - Use type 30 records to show you what was running on the system or in particular service classes at the time.
You can download a 30 day trial from: http://www.smfreports.com/download.html Regards Andrew Rowley EasySMF Developer On 21/11/2012 7:34 PM, Shane Ginnane wrote:
Having spent several hours trying to make this product work, the only conclusion I can come to is it is an absolute farce. Totally and utterly unuseable as shipped nowadays. I, like many others on the list, have used this in the past and managed to get some graphs out after floundering around in excel. Not any more. You still get to flounder around, but the result is always the mentioned zero length file. *IF* you get that far. I set aside some time to try and get this finally working so I could publish some graphs for the masses. The GUI is useless - I was unable to ever get it to produce a batch job that was of any use at all. Period. Eventually I went for the (as in MSDOS) "batch option". Update some options, kick it off, publish the graphs. Right ... At least you get some OVW sysin that happens to produce the output you need to generate the worksheet. If you don't blow the ridiculously small space on the generated JCL, and you don't want to use date/time environment variables in filenames (as MSDOS output) ... An MSDOS bat file that goes off and calls java that produces a file to be separately fed into excel. Hello ... who thinks this stuff up ?. Lots of "fun", but I think I can get what I need sometime tomorrow. Maybe. I wouldn't even call this "broken as designed" Shane ...
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