Hope I'm not wrong when I say that REXX has support to read VB and VBS... from v2r3 or something.
That said, you'll start crying as soon as you try to start processing CICS SMF in REXX. If you have any CICS monitoring product that records its own SMF, it's easier to start recording that SMF type. Then, write a parser for the monitoring product's SMF. Among a handful of SMF record types, CICS is madness. Alternatively, as someone else mentioned, if DFH$MOLS or DFH0STAT output has what you need (i.e., if you can post-process it to get exactly what you want), then stick to that. - KB ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021 at 6:17 AM, Michael Oujesky <reflect...@oujesky.net> wrote: > CICS has native support (CMF - CICS Monitoring Facility) for > > generating SMF records documenting errors, transaction detail > > (performance class), and region interval activity. These can (and > > usually do) go to SMF, but can go to other log files. Other monitors > > have that capability of capturing this same information and writing > > the data to their own style of data stores. > > Note that transaction detail records are written by each CICS region > > that processes any portion of a transaction (MRO). So your have the > > choice of reporting activity within a single region or consolidating > > all transaction detail segments by unit of work ID. > > Performance class detail records (110.1.3) are self-defining records > > based on the CMF dictionary records (110.1.1) and an array of bytes > > in the header portion of the 110.1.3 records that document what > > statistics are to be written out for a CICS region. > > Net of all this that generating that file single-record > > -per-"transaction" is non-trivial. For CMF (110) records, the most > > popular tools are MXG and MICS. The other CICS moniotoring vendors > > have their own facilities for generating reports transaction detail. > > Michael > > At 02:40 PM 8/2/2021, you wrote: > > > I've worked at a number of mainframe installations, and at many of > > > > them I've encountered a dataset that logs usage of CICS > > > > transactions. Usually it's a GDG, either weekly or monthly, wherein > > > > each record contains a transaction, a user ID and a count. I'm not > > > > a CICS support guru -- in fact in my 15 years of COBOL development, > > > > before I got into security, somehow I managed to avoid CICS even on > > > > the coding side -- so I'm ignorant of how it was done, but I surmise > > > > CICS can produce this log periodically. Can anyone tell me how it's invoked? > > > > Or if you're about to tell me it's not CICS but SMF, then a > > > > different question: Last I heard, SMF records are VBS and REXX > > > > won't read VBS records. How does one cross that bridge? Is there > > > > an SMF utility that can be persuaded to write out selected records > > > > in some other RECFM? > > > > Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
