On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 7:30 AM, Kirk Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: > The com.ibm.jzos.fields package supports binary, packed, zoned, and HFP > data and will run on non-z/OS Java platforms. > When running on z/OS, some of the converters will use "data access > acceleration" primitives to speed things up, but otherwise the code is just > Java. >
Yes. And I've used that facility myself to process z/OS SMF data on an Linux/Intel system. It works fairly well (considering my Linux system at work is on a "retired" Dual Pentium D machine!). I think that Frank's problem with all of this is fear of the IBM lawyers and whether he is authorized to use this software on a non-z/OS (Windows?) system. I think that it is rather obvious that _I_, on a company machine, have a licensed to download the z/OS Java code to my _company owned_ PC in order to write Java code which will be used to process _company_ data. In general, even without using the com.bim.jzos.* jar files, it is not what I'd call "difficult" to process z/OS (EBCDIC text and binary data) using Java on an ASCII platform. It is just "fiddly". Using the JZOS jar and the Java Record Generator reduces the "fiddliness" of doing it. I used these facilities back in 2009 to create a set of Java program to process a lot of the SMF record types. The hardest part was writing up the HLASM invocation of the SMF macros to generate the ADATA needed to feed into the Java Record Generator. And I have no doubt that Dovetailed's "fingerprints" are all over it because I remember when JZOS was a Dovetailed Technologies "product" and not part of the IBM JDK. > > Kirk Wolf > Dovetailed Technologies > http://dovetail.com > -- I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove it. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
