Shane 
you have an example of what ys did for batch processing...as what is 
needed and not needed from all the jcl and STUFF generated..
gather the rmfpp parms can then be altered without jumping around in the 
gui mess.

yes...seems strange the way it is setup...would be nice to reclac the 
intervals for weekly/monthly roll up reporting by the service classes....




From:   Shane Ginnane <[email protected]>
To:     [email protected]
Date:   11/21/2012 02:53 AM
Subject:        Re: RMF Spreadsheet Reporter
Sent by:        IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]>



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 ...


On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 13:58:42 +0530, saurabh khandelwal  wrote:

>Hello,
>                      I am trying to create overview record using Create
>option. But I am getting below error
>
>*The returned File has zero Length. Check the remote dataset or review 
the
>Post processor for Parameter for detail.
>Please refer to RMF postprocessor Message for detail.*
>
>When I tried checking postprocessor job log, I didnt find any issue. But
>After the Job run, I don't see any dataset created 
RMF.D273.T220125.OVWREC.
>
>I dont suspect the SMF dump dataset is corrupted. Please suggest.

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