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Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

Author: McKown, John
Date: Jun 16, 2008 13:16

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> [mailto:IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman
> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 3:04 PM
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[snip]

> Let me point out that PL/1 lends itself very nicely to
> processing of SMF
> data, with offset variables, etc. It's a little more work
> than just SAS
> processing, but the various data types in PL/1 can map SMF data
> variables very nicely. SAS was very effectively priced out of
> our shop
> long ago, and they were not willing to negotiate at all on
> the pricing
> issue.
>

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Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

Author: Schwarz, Barry A
Date: Jun 16, 2008 14:01

Have you considered DFSORT and ICETOOL?

-----Original Message-----
From: McKown, John [mailto:snip]
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 1:17 PM
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I would love to try C or PL/I. But all we have are HLASM and COBOL. Oh,
and the current "freebies" such as Java (which nobody but me has much
familiarity with), REXX, Perl, and maybe some others.

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Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

Author: McKown, John
Date: Jun 16, 2008 14:03

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Schwarz, Barry A
> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 4:01 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?
>
> Have you considered DFSORT and ICETOOL?

I don't know how to process repeating groups in ICETOOL. Or other
advanced SMF records which do not have fixed offsets.

--
John McKown
Senior Systems Programmer
HealthMarkets
Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage
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Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

Author: Schwarz, Barry A
Date: Jun 16, 2008 14:15

If you post a message with DFSORT and SMF in the title, I'll Frank will
respond with some suggestions if not a complete example.

-----Original Message-----
From: McKown, John [mailto:snip]
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 2:03 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

I don't know how to process repeating groups in ICETOOL. Or other
advanced SMF records which do not have fixed offsets.

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Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

Author: Frank Yaeger
Date: Jun 16, 2008 15:02

Barry A Schwarz wrote on 06/16/2008 02:15:19 PM:

> If you post a message with DFSORT and SMF in the title, I'll Frank will
> respond with some suggestions if not a complete example.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: McKown, John [mailto:snip]
> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 2:03 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?
>
> I don't know how to process repeating groups in ICETOOL. Or other
> advanced SMF records which do not have fixed offsets.

DFSORT/ICETOOL has some formats for handling "special" SMF fields,
but it doesn't have any built-in features for handling "triplets"
or the complex record types SMF builds. It only handles "linear"
records. You would have to be able to address the fields you want
by their linear starting positions in order to use DFSORT/ICETOOL
for that kind of processing.

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Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

Author: Clark Morris
Date: Jun 16, 2008 16:00

On 16 Jun 2008 13:16:44 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
>> [mailto:IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman
>> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 3:04 PM
>> To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
>> Subject...

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