>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?

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