'waste' depends on frequency of use, ease of maintenance, skill set(s), AND impact to th 4HRA.
- -teD - Original Message From: David Crayford Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 10:46 To: [email protected] Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Is there any tools or interface which could analyse or monitor SYS1.MANX directly? On 15/06/2015 9:40 PM, Itschak Mugzach wrote: > 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. IDK. But REXX is a waste of resources when there are better weapons in arsenal. > 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 >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >>> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >>> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
