Thomas Berg wrote: >Well, we just have to look at DFSORT as a programming language - with what >follows. OTOH, what it does it does very fast and efficient so it's worth the >effort to learn it IMHO. Indeed. Look at my JCL for SMF record 89 I posted sometime ago on IBM-MAIN.
In the past, I wrote Assembler programs to hande those packed fields (Date/Time/etc) and display it properly. Now I just distribute that ICETOOL/DFSORT JCL to whoever wants to quickly look at SMF records. Even auditors can understand that JCL. Simply explain each line using manuals and they're satisfied in 5 minutes. About speed - that Assembler programs and DFSORT are running at same speed. Assembler program just select certain records, but DFSORT is the master when it comes to speed - Better I/O methods. So, DFSORT (and ICETOOL) is actually a sort of ready built programming language tailored for fast sorting and reformatting data. I still find it amazing that DFSORT can handle VB datasets and put results into a FB dataset. That alone enabled me to discard undocumented, but slow programs which do that same trick. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
