Most z/OS moderate-to-large sites have fundamental enterprise reporting/charting requirements which would likely involve detail (find/fix, problem diagnosis) and also most important summary (trending, service-level, chargeback) at various summary-levels (Hourly, Week/Month by Shift, Hour-of-Day, etc.) - where also site-unique "reporting buckets" (for identification, some derived, some from the incoming data-fields) are captured (at detail-level raw-data input processing time) and used as BY-list or GROUP-by variables - additionally derived date/time, SHIFT/ZONE, PLEX (based on SMFID), RMF-constructs, SMS-constructs, and so on. Furthermore, the added-functionality to summarize/re-compute on-the-fly and then possibly MERGE disparate information sources, but based on a common-element structure further enhances usability and productivity.
This site-specific "derivation process" is where both SAS and Altair/WPS have significant flexibility with WHERE, IF/THEN DO/END / SELECT/WHEN/OTHERWISE/END programming construct logic that gets interpreted, executed and the results are immediately presented, either in "detail" or the "summary" database files/tables. It's all about what is absolutely assessing and stating what is a requirement vs nice-to-have or not-needed that determines how a particular solution may or may not fit the bill.... Scott Barry SBBTech LLC On Wed, 8 May 2024 01:24:10 +0530, raji ece <rajiec...@gmail.com> wrote: >The thing is we need a product that will extract the data from SMF and IMS >SLDS logs and then write reports against it. > >Regards, >Raji M > >On Tue, May 7, 2024, 22:23 Allan Staller < >00000632b4c7ca99-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > >> Classification: Confidential >> >> WPS is supposedly source compatible with SAS and last I looked (10+ years >> ago) significantly less expensive. Barry has (last I heard) accepted WPS as >> well as SAS. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf >> Of Steve Thompson >> Sent: Tuesday, May 7, 2024 8:45 AM >> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >> Subject: Re: Mainframe performance tool replacement >> >> [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust >> the sender, Don’t click links or open attachments as it may be a Phishing >> email, which can steal your Information and compromise your Computer.] >> >> Problem is "sas" being common to MICS and MXG. And the op's issue is a >> problem that appears to be rooted in SAS. >> >> But I have a question about the problems with SAS, beyond licensing and >> costs. What tech problem is being seen? >> >> Steve Thompson >> >> On 5/7/2024 9:22 AM, Allan Staller wrote: >> > Classification: Confidential >> > >> > SAS - WPS, others, >> > MICS - MXG, Several others >> > >> > HTH, >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On >> > Behalf Of raji ece >> > Sent: Tuesday, May 7, 2024 8:20 AM >> > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >> > Subject: Mainframe performance tool replacement >> > >> > [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. 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