Do any of you run FOCUS for Mainframe from IBI? If so, do you also license their FOCLOG feature to record information about what programs (called focexecs) have run and what resources they used?
[Without that log, it's pretty opaque - you can see in SMF that FOCUS was run as a batch program, but not which of its "programs" has been invoked. The usual SMF statistics for a batch job are there, but you can't tie it back to a FOCUS program name. ] If you used FOCLOG, how did it work for you? It writes to an MVS dataset (I believe with DISP=MOD) rather than recording via SMF. IF we were to use it, I foresee issues like B37 abends on the log dataset, or having to manage many GDG generations every day, and the requirement to allow _everyone_ to update it because this is a product that can be used to create ad-hoc reports. I'd like to hear of any experiences anyone has had with this component. Thanks in advance ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
