I still, perversely(?), wish that every product which produces an SMF
record would have a routine which can be invoked by the IFASMFDP routine
which would reformat the record into a "text only" type output record.
Perhaps in a documented XML format. Users could then fairly easily be able
to read this using Java programs. Or download to another system, such as
z/Linux or <shudder/> Windows, to process. I like what the RACF people have
done for the IRRADU00 (RACF activity) output. That's what I think would be
_excellent_.


On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 7:42 AM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote:

> SMF records are various.  In particular, they confront very different
> temporal granularities.  For some  the  resolution of an STCKE value
> is appropriate; for others the millisecond is the appropriate unit
>
> A standard header is innocuous, but standardizing their substantive
> timestamp formats would be inappropriate.   Delusive exactitude is an
> old problem.
>
> The quotation is now hackneyed, but Emerson disposed of such issues long
> ago:
>
> . . . a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored
> by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
>
> John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
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