Clark Morris wrote: >I have processed SMF types 14/15, 30, 62 and 64 with COBOL.
Excellent! ;-) >I reading the VBS files you need RECORDING S on the FD. Indeed. Or if you don't like REC S, then use something like IDCAMS or another copy utility to copy from VBS to VB. >The major pains are having to have separate FD (file descriptors) for VB and >VBS, having to be indirect in dealing with bit fields and 1 byte binary and >there being no mechanical way to get the SMF record descriptions. Agreed. Bit handling is indeed one of the major pains. >Actually COBOL could be made more useful by having a tool that converts DSECTs >to COBOL record descriptions thus opening up the ability to easily call >various IBM routines. Indeed. It would be useful if those description can be placed in SYS1.SAMPLIB or MACLIB or IGY libraries or such libraries. Currently, AFAIK, all the translations of DSECTs to PICTURE description are done manually and stored in a copybook for easy future referral. Many vendors like B Merrill and MXG for example have already their own libraries to describe those SMF records. IRRADU00 is also one of those SMF readers which can put your records in a more easily format, but then only for RACF related SMF records. Clark, thanks for your kind post. Much appreciated! Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
