Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial)

2014-10-16 Thread Kirk Wolf
:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial) (on SMF schemas) I think that it would be useful to consider processing SMF data in other languages, like Perl, Python, System/R, C, etc. If you had record schemas you could generate the language bindings. Although

Re: SMF (was REXX Tutorial)

2014-02-06 Thread Neil Duffee
08:58 Subject: Re: SMF (was REXX Tutorial) [snip] to get a formatted dump with the IFASMFDP program which is in RECFM=VBS. [snip] change this dataset in a RECFM=VB Format i.e. with the IDCAMS REPRO command. This dataset now is readable with REXX [snip

Re: SMF (was REXX Tutorial)

2014-02-04 Thread Mark Zelden
I have an SMF 30 REXX example code (JOB accounting report) that I can contribute, but I don't have time do all the other informational doc I see with the other samples. Since virtually all my clients have had SAS, this is the only one I've ever written in REXX (and it was a good exercise back

Re: SMF (was REXX Tutorial)

2014-02-04 Thread Wolfgang Schüch
Thank you very much Mark. I will see how I can integrate it, at least partly, into the book :-) 2014-02-04 Mark Zelden m...@mzelden.com: I have an SMF 30 REXX example code (JOB accounting report) that I can contribute, but I don't have time do all the other informational doc I see with the

Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial)

2014-02-03 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Wolfgang Schuech wrote: Last week I started a little bookproject at wikibooks: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/SMF_Records Thanks. Looking promising! 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

Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial)

2014-02-03 Thread Wolfgang Schüch
For correct addressing just read the Header/Self-defining Section which contains the triplet fields (offset/length/number) and use the right offsets. You should also read the articles by George Ng in IBM Systems Magazine (the links are in the book). His example deals with SMF30. Greetings

Re: SMF (was REXX Tutorial)

2014-02-03 Thread Horacio Villa
Hi Wolfgang, I quickly read your book at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/SMF_Records Great idea, I'll try to help. Is there any need to start your REXX via ISPF? Thanks, Horacio -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: SMF (was REXX Tutorial)

2014-02-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuech
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

Re: SMF (was REXX Tutorial)

2014-02-03 Thread Martin Packer
To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Date: 03/02/2014 13:57 Subject:Re: SMF (was REXX Tutorial) Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu 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

Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial)

2014-02-02 Thread Wolfgang Schuech
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

Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial)

2014-02-02 Thread Charles Mills
- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Wolfgang Schuech Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2014 9:00 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial) Last week I started a little bookproject at wikibooks: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki

Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial)

2014-02-02 Thread Wolfgang Schüch
Schuech Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2014 9:00 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial) 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

Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial)

2014-01-07 Thread David Crayford
On 4/01/2014 7:15 AM, Kirk Wolf wrote: One possibility: an XML document with a grammar that included elements for each data type used by SMF records, including dates, timestamps, triplet defined structures, etc. You could then have utilities or XSL style sheets that generated language

Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial)

2014-01-07 Thread Scott Ford
for you: a DSECT to XML schema converter. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Kirk Wolf Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 12:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial) (on SMF schemas

Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial)

2014-01-04 Thread Clark Morris
[mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 11:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial) On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 12:35:44 -0600, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 12:10:15 -0600, Ed Gould

Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial)

2014-01-04 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 13:08 -0600 on 01/03/2014, Mark Zelden wrote about Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial): As long there is internal communication within IBM and everyone played by the same rules, the information could be kept consolidated in a single manual or kept in sync with the component / subsystem manuals

Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial)

2014-01-03 Thread Ed Finnell
Dang, that's what we have computers for! Seems like a 'Smart manual' would be able to handle this seamlessly. In a message dated 1/3/2014 12:35:50 P.M. Central Standard Time, paulgboul...@aim.com writes: As such, it would be onerous, untimely, perhaps even error-prone for each utility

Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial)

2014-01-03 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 12:35:44 -0600, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 12:10:15 -0600, Ed Gould wrote: Interesting thing about SMF... For 20 years IBM documented SMF records in one consolidated place the SMF manual. In the last 5 or so years IBM did an about face and

Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial)

2014-01-03 Thread Charles Mills
Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 11:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial) On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 12:35:44 -0600, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote

Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial)

2014-01-03 Thread Martin Packer
: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Date: 03/01/2014 19:35 Subject:Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial) Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN

Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial)

2014-01-03 Thread Kirk Wolf
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial) On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 12:35:44 -0600, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 12:10:15 -0600, Ed Gould wrote: Interesting thing about SMF... For 20 years IBM documented SMF records in one consolidated place the SMF

Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial)

2014-01-03 Thread Kirk Wolf
, but it sometimes lags reality. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 11:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial) On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 12:35:44 -0600

Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial)

2014-01-03 Thread Charles Mills
(was: REXX tutorial) (on SMF schemas) I think that it would be useful to consider processing SMF data in other languages, like Perl, Python, System/R, C, etc. If you had record schemas you could generate the language bindings. Although not readily available on z/OS, any of these languages

Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial)

2014-01-03 Thread Kirk Wolf
: Friday, January 03, 2014 12:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial) (on SMF schemas) I think that it would be useful to consider processing SMF data in other languages, like Perl, Python, System/R, C, etc. If you had record schemas you could generate

Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial)

2014-01-03 Thread Ed Gould
Gil, Could be. BUT it worked fine for 20+ years. Maybe IBM should make it easier to consolidate the record types (internally)? Trying to hunt down the blasted records is daunting especially since there is no standard place in each component. Might be worth a SHARE requirement? Ed On Jan

Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial)

2014-01-03 Thread Kirk Wolf
Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 11:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial) On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 12:35:44 -0600, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 12:10:15

Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial)

2014-01-03 Thread Ed Gould
, but it sometimes lags reality. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM- m...@listserv.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 11:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial) On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 12:35:44 -0600