SAS/MXG on a non-mainframe platform is actually pretty inexpensive. At a prior employer, I did just that along with MXG running on SUSE linux on Intel. For us, it ran faster than on the mainframe. It was a small shop, so there was not an overabundance of SMF data.
As for your question of rolling your own via JAVA, sounds like a fulltime job. _________________________________________________________________ Dave Jousma Assistant Vice President, Mainframe Services david.jou...@53.com 1830 East Paris, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 MD RSCB1G p 616.653.8429 f 616.653.8497 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 1:30 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: insanity? process SMF with Java on non-z? We are losing our SAS license. Cost containment. We are looking at getting our main SAS user a Window desktop license so that he can continue to use MXG. Apparently this is fairly popular. But I was curious if anybody has ever used anything else, such as Java, to process SMF data on a Windows or Linux box? Or is that just too crazy? -- This e-mail transmission contains information that is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended only for the addressee(s) named above. If you receive this e-mail in error, please do not read, copy or disseminate it in any manner. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. Please reply to the message immediately by informing the sender that the message was misdirected. After replying, please erase it from your computer system. Your assistance in correcting this error is appreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
