http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247419.html SDSF REXX Redbook
Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht > Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2017 1:50 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: IEC141I 013-A8: how to read VS data sets? > > Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > > >Most standard utilities fail when opened to V(B)S records. > > Please name them. Just so I can shock my amazed users when they complain about > reading VBS things... > > > >Only IFASMFDP can read SMF data, and the output from that is ordinary VB. > > Really? What about DFSORT and its friend ICETOOL? (Shhhhhhhh about RACF Report > Writer, because that thing is 'functionally stabilized' some centuries ago... > ) > > I posted a ICETOOL JCL example in IBM-MAIN which reads raw SMF data type 89. > > Also look at thread 'Re: DFSORT - ICETOOL - Search for text and replace with > date' in Sept 2016 where I wrote that ICETOOL can read in raw SMF data. > > You can write any program reading VBS data. I wrote in IBM-MAIN about > analysing SMF 30 using a home grown Assembler program. > > Oh, zSecure can do that trick too and do that *fast*. > > > >SAPI should be able to handle any spool data set. > > Yip! This is where SAPI is useful! > > > >OTOH I've never coded anything for SAPI; we use VPS (Levi, Ray, Shoup) to > extract spool data and ship it to network printers. > > That is if you give VPS ALTER access to the spool contents. I don't like it, > but ... > > > >Likewise, SDSF or equivalent ISV product can handle spool data sets whether > created as V or F. > > As long you re-assemble exits for third party products to read the spool data > using the latest JES2 macros. For SDSF or other IBM spool reading products > like SMTP or cs-smtp, everything is ready for reading JES2 spool. > > > >SDSF now has a Rexx interface that makes it very usable for processing spool > files. > > Hmmm, something for me to RTFM, it may comes in handy for some nefarious spool > grabbing... ;-D > > > >FWIW it was once possible to utilize JES2 interfaces to read spool data sets > directly. That ability evaporated a long, long time ago. > > Oh, yes. TSPRINT (now OMCPRINT) could do that. These JES2 changes gave some > third party vendors real grey hairs while trying to comply to new JES2 > interfaces and macros. For that, I'm gratefully glad I'm not part of "them"... > ;-) > > Groete / Greetings > Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
