Tom, Another aside.... Quick and Dirty way of changing the RECFM *without* an authorised command.
//MAKEVB EXEC PGM=IEBGENER //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSIN DD * //SYSUT1 DD DUMMY, // DCB=(LRECL=32756,RECFM=VB,BLKSIZE=32760) //SYSUT2 DD DSN=SMF.SAVE.GDG.G0719V00,DISP=MOD, // DCB=(LRECL=32756,RECFM=VB,BLKSIZE=32760) Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw https://rsclweb.com “Dance like no one is watching. Encrypt like everyone is” -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: 02 August 2021 21:03 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Log of CICS transactions Not a real answer - but more of a side question for others. Whenever I wanted a quick look at SMF records I would dump what I was interested in to my own dataset, which was VBS of course. Then I used an auth command we had called DSCBMOD (maybe from CBT?) to change VBS to VB and I was off and browsing or rexx'ing or whatever. My assumption (note first 3 letters of assumption) was that I never cared about the far right-hand side of the records - so I wasn't missing anything important. Or was I really missing entire records? On 8/2/2021 12:40 PM, Bob Bridges 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
