I don't know R but it stands to reason that routines can be written to be called to perform formatting of SMF records.
Scott ford www.identityforge.com Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb On Jan 21, 2013, at 10:36 AM, "Joel C. Ewing" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/21/2013 08:43 AM, John McKown wrote: >> I wonder if a z/OS port of the following language would be of >> interest. It might be an interesting way to get some performance >> information for those of us who cannot afford SAS. >> >> http://how-to.linuxcareer.com/introduction-to-gnu-r-on-linux-operating-system >> >> But then again, probably not, because it does not have the ability to >> read SMF data built in to it. And it doesn't run on z/OS. It does run >> on both Linux and Windows. But, unlike SAS on Linux/Windows, it cannot >> direct read z/OS data via ftp, as best as I can see. >> >> But in the off chance somebody is interested: >> >> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/ >> http://www.r-project.org/ home web page >> >> >> > A very quick read suggests "R" is extendible via packages that can be > implemented in other languages (C, C++,...). I guess an interesting question > would be whether R provides in some form enough of the features that are in > SAS that it would be practical for Barry to port a version of MXG to "R" so > that it could process SMF records under Linux and R. > > -- > Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR [email protected] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
