I don't think this function exists, and I'm thinking about writing up a SHARE requirement for it (which I guess these days becomes an RFE but I'm a member of SHARE so I think I'll go that way). I thought I'd ask whether it would be used enough to justify going through that process.
What I'm thinking about is a function (well, two) to take a binary IP address and do DNS lookup, retrieving the host/domain name. At the shop where I'm currently working, many logs don't do the lookup when logging, to save some overhead. Yet, it's always nice, when creating a report such as 'who is connecting to us the most', to be able to assign a name rather than an IP address; if the lookup can be done _after_ the data is summarized it would be a lot more efficient. Hence the thinking about making this a function for SORT. I think this would involve two functions - one for IPV4 and one for IPV6. We might also like two formats similar to DT1 and the like, for formatting IPV4 and IPV6 binaries into strings. Although I think that can be managed now by handling individual parts of the binary and interspersing separator characters "manually" it would be much cleaner if it were handled like date/time fields are. Do you think this capability would be used enough to make it an RFE? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
