To my mind the real problem is making the data consistent and make sense. BTW names are one thing but Plant/Serial is a good example of something that’s at least a machine identifier.
Cheers, Martin From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Radoslaw Skorupka <00000471ebeac275-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Date: Tuesday, 23 January 2024 at 09:45 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Masking SMF data internally You talk about fields. However user see records, not fields. Various records. Manual editing single records with known fields is easy, however mass change can be risky. Note: as usually *we don't know* what is the author's need. IMHO this is the least active person in this thread. Without that we can only guess, assume or create very generic models. Regards -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 22.01.2024 o 17:24, ITschak Mugzach pisze: > You can mask any character or external decimal field by using translate > everything but a-z and 0 to 9 and check for minimum length (say, not less > than three characters) in order not to convert hex data. Now find the > positions and mask the original record. This way you do not care for the > actual value in the field or record type. > > ITschak > > > > ITschak Mugzach > *|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring > for z/OS, x/Linux & IBM I **| z/VM coming soon * > > > > > On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 5:50 PM Willy Jensen<willy.h.jen...@outlook.com> > wrote: > >> Most SMF records can be copied to a normal VB dataset. As I recall, only >> one or two CICS records were really that big (or perhaps it is DB2, it's >> been a while)? Anyway, you can select the record types that you need and >> the use SORT to convert to normal VB. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Unless otherwise stated above: IBM United Kingdom Limited Registered in England and Wales with number 741598 Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hants. PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
