Someone asked me about this off-list, but I prefer to answer here.... The utility mentioned is the JZOS RecordGenerator tools (for COBOL and ADATA). There is a new release available on developerWorks (2.4.6).
You can find the download, titled "JZOS Record Generator 2.4.6" on the JZOS developerWorks page: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/groups/service/html/communityview?communityUuid=2acdb076-7582-45b5-93a5-781f90169bd3 Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Kirk Wolf <k...@dovetail.com> wrote: > I've written an Assembler and COBOL ADATA to Java or XML utility, but it > isn't very useful without lots of manual work on SMF data for the reasons I > mentioned above: the DSECT doesn't have complete type or any structure > information. > > > > Kirk Wolf > Dovetailed Technologies > http://dovetail.com > > > On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > >> Yeah, and world peace, too. <g> >> >> On a more serious note, you can get from any of the IBM DSECTs to C/C++ >> headeers by using the IBM C Compiler-included CDSECT utility. >> >> I just Googled <convert C struct to perl> and got a number of hits, so I >> would guess IBM DSECT to any of the languages you mention is do-able, if >> not >> pretty. >> >> You might object that IBM C is a separately charged product, but it uses >> the >> ADATA output of the assembler, which is documented. I don't think it would >> be real hard to write a DSECT to any arbitrary data schema program, >> especially if it were for your own use and you could tolerate a 90% job. >> >> Hey, there's a product for you: a DSECT to XML schema converter. >> >> Charles >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On >> Behalf Of Kirk Wolf >> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 12:11 PM >> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >> Subject: Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial) >> >> (on SMF "schemas") >> >> I think that it would be useful to consider processing SMF data in other >> languages, like Perl, Python, System/R, C, etc. If you had record >> schemas >> you could generate the language bindings. Although not readily available >> on >> z/OS, any of these languages/tools could be run on z Linux, which also has >> the advantage moving general processor usage. >> >> Kirk Wolf >> Dovetailed Technologies >> http://dovetail.com >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Kirk Wolf <k...@dovetail.com> wrote: >> >> > Even better if the SMF records were uniformly described by some >> > metadata format (schema) that described the fields in the record. >> > Consider the IBM SMF record DSECTS - one has to look at the field >> > comments to determine not only structure (e.g. triplets) but also >> > whether some C fields are really character or numeric, dates, times, >> etc, >> etc. >> > >> > Much better would be if IBM published some sort of metadata / schema, >> > perhaps in XML, that had all of the information in the DSECT, but also >> > included structure, data types, etc. Utilities could be used to >> convert >> > these into record / DSECTS in assembler or HLLs. It wouldn't have to >> be >> > XML so long as there were a defined grammer, standard data types, etc. >> > >> > If done properly so as to include comments for each field, this would >> > also cover 90% of the necessary "documentation" requirements. >> > >> > Currently, the closest thing to SMF schemas are in MXG (SAS). >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
