Brian, I like the idea of downloadable web deliverable, too. I'm open to any idea that gets the function out to customers wanting relief earlier, rather than later. I've seen much larger SPEs that were reasonably stable, so I'm not inclined to be as apprehensive as you seem to be. And I suggested that z/OS 1.6 be omitted, since it is off service in September even though I'm at a 1.6 shop now. (We will convert to 1.8 "soon".) I wouldn't argue if IBM said that 1.7 was too much effort if they would commit to rolling it back to 1.8 this year. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:22:24 -0600, Brian Peterson wrote:
>Tom > >Putting a huge enhancement to SMF such as the below described by John Eells >into an SPE for current releases - just a PTF in the service stream - >sounds like a fairly risky thing to do. I certainly wouldn't want IBM to >do that. Just my opinion. > >On the other hand, a downloadable web deliverable (a dependent function, >similar to zIIP support for z/OS 1.6/1.7) that only customers who really >really want the relief for SMF can go ahead and install, that might be a >better idea. > >But, at the end of the day, my guess is that absent some huge groundswell >of customer demand, we'll all just have to wait for z/OS 1.9. Again, no >inside info, just my opinion. > >Brian > >On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:57:06 -0600, Tom Schmidt wrote: > >>On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:22:59 -0500, John Eells wrote: >> >>>Starting in z/OS R9, you can send SMF data to a log stream. You >>>will be able to separate different sets of SMF record types to >>>different log streams, specify different retention periods for >>>different log streams, and so on. There will be a new version of >>>IFASMFDP (IFASMFDL) that knows how to get SMF data from a log stream. >>> >>>If you can hold off long enough to get to R9, this should be >>>worth a look. It's intended to solve exactly the kinds of >>>problems you're having. >> >> >>Hmmm... maybe IBM could have pity on its customers and package those SMF >>changes as an SPE for z/OS 1.7 and 1.8? >> >>Not many shops will be on 1.9 for a year and a fair number won't be on 1.9 >>for up to 2 years. That's a long time to make customers wait for relief. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
