Clark: Through the years, I have seen various vendors send out various COBOl code Most of time it was fairly successful. The early coders were at best were of minimally success. The newer versions of COBOL have been a lot better,IMO.
SAS has the best record for handling SMF records overall, IMO. I am generally against putting SAS in production, however, Ed (sent from my IPAD) --- On Fri, 6/25/10, Clark Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Clark Morris <[email protected]> > Subject: COBOL for SMF Re: SAS is gone - long live ... ICETOOL? > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, June 25, 2010, 4:36 PM > On 25 Jun 2010 13:00:44 -0700, in > bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: > > >>COBOL can be used to play with the various SMF > records. > > > >That, from experience, I would not recommend. > > While IBM still hasn't implemented USAGE BIT and BINARY > character, the > COBOL 85 standard (VS COBOL II and later) with reference > modification > and hex literals has made it not too bad for handling such > things as > the SMF 30 records. The bear is getting the record > descriptions. > Because COBOL is not that great for report writing, I > prefer DYL280 > and its successors but COBOL code uses noticeably less CPU > (based on > experience in the late 1980s). For most SMF mashing > in batch that is > a trivial concern. > > Clark Morris > > > >>Vision (I knew it as DYL280) from CA also has been > used as has Easytrieve. > > > >DYL is not a bad choice. > > > Clark Morris > > >> rest snipped > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
