You should spend an hour or five with your CICS Performance book then all will become clear.
On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 2:41 PM Bob Bridges <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
