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SDSF REXX Redbook
Providing REXX programs with an API to access IBM z/OS System Display and
Search Facility (SDSF) functions gives you a powerful tool for accessing and
controlling JES resources. Although we chose REXX as the language for our
installation, you might choose other languages, such as C, COBOL, or
assembler.
Lizette
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU]
> > On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht
> > Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2017 1:50 PM
> > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> > 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
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