There is an article I found that provides information on using REXX to handle SMF Records. Looks like you might be able to use the DATE function in REXX to do what you want. Just a thought.
http://ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/tipstechniques/applicationdevelopment/rexx_sm f_part1/ http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/tipstechniques/applicationdevelopment/rex x_smf_part2/ Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Robert A. Rosenberg > Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2016 2:52 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Count smf type 30-5 records > > At 13:16 -0700 on 02/04/2016, Sri h Kolusu wrote about Re: Count smf type 30-5 > records: > > >If you want DFSORT to extract the values from Raw SMF data then what > >fields correspond to Userid, Jobname(SMF30JBN ??) and Date from the > >SMF-30 Record mapping? Remember the raw smf have variable length > >segments where the offset and the length are stored in the record and > >you need dynamically access the information which would require an > >addition pass of data. > > Due to the variable length segment issue, just using Sort Cards to map the > file is not going to fly well. IMO, the simplest way of extracting the needed > fields is to just have someone who is capable of writing simple Assembler code > to just write a program to extract the fields and output a simple file with > them. This file can then be sent through the sort which consolidates and > counts them to output a report whenever a field changes. > > I know that you are looking for a way to have sort handle all the work, but > doing the record selection/parsing is better delegated to something that can > locate the data. Back in the when I was still coding, this type of task was > one that I would toss off as a Quick&Dirty project in an hour or two. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
