EasySMF, a good name make me excite for 10 sec, until I see '30 day trial'..
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Andrew Rowley <[email protected] > wrote: > 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<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 ... >> > > > > -- > [email protected] > +61 413 302 386 > > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**---------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Cobe Xu Best Regards ----------------------------------------------------------- z/OS Performance & Capacity Analyst z/OS System Programmer Email: [email protected] ----------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
