I've worked at a number of mainframe installations, and at many of them I've encountered a dataset that logs usage of CICS transactions. Usually it's a GDG, either weekly or monthly, wherein each record contains a transaction, a user ID and a count. I'm not a CICS support guru -- in fact in my 15 years of COBOL development, before I got into security, somehow I managed to avoid CICS even on the coding side -- so I'm ignorant of how it was done, but I surmise CICS can produce this log periodically. Can anyone tell me how it's invoked?
Or if you're about to tell me it's not CICS but SMF, then a different question: Last I heard, SMF records are VBS and REXX won't read VBS records. How does one cross that bridge? Is there an SMF utility that can be persuaded to write out selected records in some other RECFM? --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* Advertising copy. Where sentences are replaced by participle phrases. Noun phrases. And dangling conjunctions. -K */ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
