While I agree it would be nice to have more consumable data formats I don't agree documentation isn't a major problem:
As someone who spends a lot of time with the raw data all sorts of questions come up that the documentation doesn't address, mainly of provenance and interpretation. A concordance of SMF record mappings would be great, but detail would need to be added to the current field descriptions. A large task, I'd say. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: [email protected] Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: Kirk Wolf <[email protected]> To: [email protected], Date: 07/15/2013 02:50 PM Subject: Re: SMF record - IPADDR Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> IMO, the problem with SMF records is not the documentation. I would like to see IBM publish some sort of machine-readable schema document (say, in XML or JSON) for each record that describes the structure and datatypes in each record. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 8:37 AM, John McKown <[email protected]>wrote: > I think this would be resisted by IBM. There are too many basically > separate products which produce SMF records. Some even the same SMF record > number, such as 110 for CICS and DB2. But what we _might_ be able to > convince IBM to do is to create a Web bookshelf, similar to the "z/OS > Messages and Codes" bookshelf, which would contain a entry for every IBM > manual which documented the SMF record(s) produced by every IBM product > which produces those records. This would be much simpler than a single > manual. And it would be searchable just like the "Messages and Codes" > bookshelf is. > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:08 AM, Roger W. Suhr <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'd vote for both. All IBM product SMF records type 0-200 should be > > documented in the SMF manual. > > > > Roger S. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > > Behalf Of Ed Gould > > Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2013 11:00 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: SMF record - IPADDR > > > > Which bring up the question... > > Where should the layout of SMF records reside, SMF manual, each product > > manual or ? > > Anyone have an opinion which way? > > > > Ed > > > > ps: Arguments on both sides are reasonable although personally I think > the > > SMF manual as it central to all products. > > > > > > > > On Jul 14, 2013, at 7:47 AM, Mike Stayton wrote: > > > > > The SMF Type 106, 118 and 119 record layouts are in: > > > z/OS V1R13.0 Comm Svr: IP Programmer's Guide and Reference > > > SC31-8787-14 > > > > > > E.0 Appendix E. Type 119 SMF records > > > http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/f1a1d3b1/ > > > E.0 > > > > > > Mike Stayton > > > z/OS Communications Server > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an > actual emergency, do you really think we'd stick around to tell you? > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
