Yes, it’s 2.1 so almost everyone can do it now. Thanks, Vignesh, for mentioning my quite old blog post.
There is only one place where I process SMF with REXX: I wrote a prototype to extract the Deactivated LPARs from 70-1. I guess I was lazy. :-) This code is actually quite handy - and I should probably polish it up and publish it. The motivation was to avoid adding to our already quite complex Assembler code for 70-1 so I wrote a new part a new way. Today I copy to VB first. I can (and probably should) remove the copy step - as our system is on 2.1. But there’s no rush - as the data is low volume. Which leads to another point: I’m not sure REXX against SMF is going to be fast - in volume. It’s worth trying it out - and SMF 30 would certainly be voluminous enough for speed to matter (at least a little). Experiences? Sent from my iPad > On 24 Apr 2018, at 18:50, Elardus Engelbrecht <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: > >> https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/MartinPacker/entry/processing_vbs_data_with_rexx?lang=en >> Believe REXX can read VBS... since v2r2 or something. > > Yes, I forgot about this which were also discussed in IBM-MAIN some time ago. > > That new ability to read VBS using REXX is since z/OS v2.1 and REXX can also read DSORG=U and DSORG=VS too. > > Look also at Redbook 'IBM z/OS Version 2 Release 1 Technical Updates'. (dated 2014) > > Groete / Greetings > Elardus Engelbrecht > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
