Ed,
Actually I find it interesting that you should say what you have. It is
my understanding that while it is true that IBM has not had anything to
process the data in the past, the original purpose of SMF was to provide
accounting data for chargeback purposes. It took a while and some head
while it is true that IBM has not had anything to process the data in
the past
Some years ago Barry Merrill wrote a paper on the history of SMF. He
described an SMF-processing system IBM developed but never released
(SMFMAN?).
Bob Shannon
Rocket Software
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 09:01 -0400, Bob Shannon wrote:
Some years ago Barry Merrill wrote a paper on the history of SMF. He
described an SMF-processing system IBM developed but never released
(SMFMAN?).
He presented at SHARE 73 in August of 1989. Here are notes of that
session from my trip
In a message dated 6/15/2007 8:27:22 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
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On July 6, 1966, the name SMF - System Management Facility - was picked
in a brainstorming session. The philosophy of the project was that IBM
would provide a way to collect data, but the customer
On Jun 15, 2007, at 7:57 AM, Kelman, Tom wrote:
Ed,
Actually I find it interesting that you should say what you have.
It is
my understanding that while it is true that IBM has not had
anything to
process the data in the past, the original purpose of SMF was to
provide
accounting data
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On Jun 14, 2007, at 2:07 PM, Kelman, Tom wrote:
It looks like they're talking about the IBM Tivoli Usage and
Accounting
Manager (ITUAM) in this paper. That is the old CIMS package which my
company has had for several years. IBM purchased CIMS at the end of
last year.
Tom,
I found it
In a message dated 6/14/2007 3:50:56 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
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Just before another group took over SMF processing we acquired a
package that put to shame anything on the market (then and now),
unfortunately
it is probably defunct. I don't know since then if
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