why did George used ISPF BATCH if he is not doing any use of the
environment in the Rexx? It is a waist of resources.

ITschak

ITschak Mugzach
Z/OS, ISV Products and Application Security & Risk Assessments Professional

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 4:33 PM, David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 15/06/2015 9:17 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
>
>> With COBOL? Can you read RAW SMF records like SMF type 30 with all its
>>> sections with COBOL?
>>>
>> Good point. Perhaps not. You could certainly do some processing of some
>> SMF records with COBOL, or you could write an assembler routine to make SMF
>> triplet sections readily addressable with COBOL. Or perhaps with native
>> COBOL -- doesn't COBOL now have some sort of based variable support? IANACP
>> (I am not a COBOL programmer.)
>>
>
> COBOL can do all the offset based stuff. It used to be terrible at pointer
> arithmetic but handle that now without a sweat.
>
> If you have the mappings COBOL would probably be a better choice then a
> lot of languages. Especially now it's fast.
>
>
>> Charles
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
>> Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht
>> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 3:44 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Is there any tools or interface which could analyse or
>> monitor SYS1.MANX directly?
>>
>> Charles Mills wrote:
>>
>>  SMF record formats are all documented (some a lot more thoroughly than
>>> others LOL).
>>>
>> Of course. Just have a good calculator ready... ;-D
>>
>>
>>  Having somehow queued your records for further processing, you can do
>>> analysis to your heart's content in assembler, COBOL, or your language of
>>> choice.
>>>
>> With COBOL? Can you read RAW SMF records like SMF type 30 with all its
>> sections with COBOL? [1] With Assembler that is easy and I have written
>>
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