Ed Gould wrote: > Ken, > > I had access to EASYTREV ala 1979 and yes I did a lot of reporting > with SMF data. However I could not (successfully) access all the new > types of SMF records (those with variable subtypes and with variable > portions of data). I was at one time able to access to get at the type > 4 records (at the end) but it was so difficult I gave up trying. It > would work sometimes. I was by no means an expert but it was a tool > that for fixed portions of SMF was a great tool. > > Ed >
I wrote a lot of assembler code to access SMF especially type 30 which icorporated the type 4 and 5 records from memory. As a result I didn't really use the EASYTREV (or perhaps PANAUDIT as Ted McNeil suggested) very much but the supplied code samples worked and could be modified to do as required. I also used PL/1 to access SMF records but admit to prefering my assembler routines. Whilst I never used COBOL I remember thinking when one of the later versions (supporting ADDRESSED variables from memory) come out it provided very similar coding techniques for SMF that PL/1 provided and this was reinforced today by the samples provided today by someone. I apologize to that someone, I looked and thought yes then deleted without remembering yoou name for later accredition. Ken ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
