Horatio,
Thank you, any help is welcome :-)
No, there is no need to start the REXX in a TSO/ISPF environment. The trick is
just to get a formatted dump with the IFASMFDP program which is in RECFM=VBS.
Because in z/OS 1.13 VBS datasets are not readable directly with REXX you have
change this
Last week I started a little bookproject at wikibooks:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/SMF_Records
The book is inspired by a series of articles in IBM Systems Magazine in spring
2013 where George Ng describes how REXX can be used to read the SMF record
fields. At the moment the book give two