Depending on what information you need, i.e. cost accounting,
chargeback, capacity planning, et. al., SMF-TRACKER may be an
alternative. See http://www.esaigroup.com/products/applications.htm
The product is low cost and does not require expensive statistical
software package on the mainfra
I missed the original poster's summary of how SAS is used at his company.
That might be good to know to offer the best advice.
In addition to the excellent suggestions previously offered, there are some
companies that use the "penalty box" technique in such cases. This works
for situations where
You may also find that IT Security and Audit personnel have another opinion
about the importance of
maintaining secure SAS information, if it involves Accounting/Chargeback or
Cost Allocation data for
your enterprise entities. And if you are forced down this path, it's important
that everyone (
Behalf Of FRASER, Brian
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 2:29 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Replacing SAS on the mainframe (Was Report on TSO usage.)
We have some management here with in their eyes wanting to stop the
payment of our SAS mainframe licenses. They want us to move all our SAS
>Could we keep MXG without SAS and run it using WPS instead?
Barry Merrill has stated (a few times) on the MXG forum that he (or WPS) is not
ready to certify WPS for MXG.
Have you looked into SAS Institute's version of sub-capacity licencing?
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Too busy driving to stop for gas!
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Brian,
SAS licence fees in constellations similar to yours where SAS is
(perceived to be) used mainly for MXG/ITRM purposes are a constant
source of concern in mainframe shops. You will find this topic
being discussed again and again on MXG-L.
http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?A0=MXG-L
We have some management here with in their eyes wanting to stop the
payment of our SAS mainframe licenses. They want us to move all our SAS
workload (including MXG) onto a Unix box.
Anyone out there done it?
How painful was the experience?
Does anyone have any experiences using the SAS clon
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