>Perl provides both data manipulation and statistical functions and, off the >mainframe, is used to manipulate data before processing with R.
Not to belittle your response, but is there a body of code to read SMF data? The issue is not the statistical/reporting capability, rather the ability to read the raw data. There are many packages better than SAS (as a SAS bigot) to report and analyse, but how many can read? - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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