Moira, Pity you can't afford a Windows (or even better a Linux) license of SAS. Surely that would be cheaper than your time replicating your SAS programs? (yeah, I know, management *never* appreciates the value of your time .... :-)
Several of our Co:Z Toolkit users have discovered that the free Co:Z Launcher can be used to launch SAS jobs on a Windows or Linux box, but still be able to control everything from a z/OS batch job, as well as uses their z/OS input/output datasets. Consider the following example: only changing the last step to launch a remote SAS program. You can still pipe the z/OS dataset into the remote SAS program (or named pipe file, since its a little tricky to get SAS to treat "stdin" as an input file). http://dovetail.com/docs/coz/cookbook.html#4_5 Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM, M Hunter <[email protected]> wrote: > I know I'm not the only one to suffer this, but "management" have decided > that SAS is too expensive and as it is only used by the technical group > (OK, > I'm the only one who writes it, though others use the reports) it has got > to > go. Frankly, I'm surprised I managed to hold on to it for so long. > > So, what to replace it with? There's no money to buy a replacement (not > even a SAS windows licence) so I'm limited to existing software only. That > basically means z/OS and DFSORT. > > Forgetting about SMF and MXG for the moment, most of the other reports > process data from DCOLLECT and RACF IRRDBU, IRRADU. One feature that is > used a lot is PROC SUMMARY (or PROC MEANS) to group (sum) data for a > subset, for example by high-level qualifier, or part of dsname. > > I'm happy with REXX but a novice with ICETOOL, my ICETOOL experience > being limited to tinkering with sample reports. Does anyone have any > hints, > gotchas, examples for how I might replace my reports? > > Thanks, > > Moira > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
