One key advantage of not going the "pretend it's VB" route - which you can now do in 2.1 - is you don't stand to break records. For example SMF 30 and SMF 42-6. These are not the kind of records I want to break. :-)
(And thanks for the mention.) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: Wolfgang Schuech <wolfgang.schu...@gmail.com> To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Date: 03/02/2014 13:57 Subject: Re: SMF (was REXX Tutorial) Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu> Horatio, Thank you, any help is welcome :-) No, there is no need to start the REXX in a TSO/ISPF environment. The trick is just to get a formatted dump with the IFASMFDP program which is in RECFM=VBS. Because in z/OS 1.13 VBS datasets are not readable directly with REXX you have change this dataset in a RECFM=VB Format i.e. with the IDCAMS REPRO command. This dataset now is readable with REXX and you can use it like any other dataset. As Martin Packer mentioned in a earlier posting, in z/OS 2.1 REXX is able to read VBS files directly. Greetings Wolfgang ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu 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 lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
