Re: Replacing SAS on the mainframe (Was Report on TSO usage.)

2007-05-25 Thread Rob Barbour
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

Re: Replacing SAS on the mainframe (Was Report on TSO usage.)

2007-05-23 Thread Timothy Sipples
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

Re: Replacing SAS on the mainframe (Was Report on TSO usage.)

2007-05-22 Thread Scott Barry
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 (

Re: Replacing SAS on the mainframe (Was Report on TSO usage.)

2007-05-22 Thread Jousma, David
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

Re: Replacing SAS on the mainframe (Was Report on TSO usage.)

2007-05-22 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>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? - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -

Re: Replacing SAS on the mainframe (Was Report on TSO usage.)

2007-05-22 Thread Robert Bardos
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

Replacing SAS on the mainframe (Was Report on TSO usage.)

2007-05-21 Thread FRASER, Brian
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

Re: Report on TSO usage

2007-05-17 Thread Matthew Stitt
If you have the COBOL compiler, file 529 will also report on the type 30's. You will also need file 527 for some subprograms. On Thu, 17 May 2007 08:30:10 -0500, Marty French <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >File 19 on CBT, Program FLSMFJOB will report TSO logon's. You can >mask the jobs on the batc

Re: Report on TSO usage

2007-05-17 Thread Marty French
File 19 on CBT, Program FLSMFJOB will report TSO logon's. You can mask the jobs on the batch JCL so that only TSO ID's will be reported. Of course, this is after they logon and then logoff. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signof

Re: Report on TSO usage

2007-05-16 Thread Rick Fochtman
- G'day All, Am new to this list, sorry if am asking the wrong question here ! Am looking for some kind of report which will pull out the info on TSO usage on a mainframe. Something which would individually list all the TSO users who logged on and

Re: Report on TSO usage

2007-05-16 Thread גדי בן אבי
: Report on TSO usage G'day All, Am new to this list, sorry if am asking the wrong question here ! Am looking for some kind of report which will pull out the info on TSO usage on a mainframe. Something which would individually list all the TSO users who logged on and their various res

Re: Report on TSO usage

2007-05-16 Thread Vinod Kumar
Hi Sridhar, Check if SMF record 30 & 32 will help you. Regards, Vinod Kumar -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sridhar K Veena Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 2:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Report on TSO usage G

Report on TSO usage

2007-05-16 Thread Sridhar K Veena
G'day All, Am new to this list, sorry if am asking the wrong question here ! Am looking for some kind of report which will pull out the info on TSO usage on a mainframe. Something which would individually list all the TSO users who logged on and their various resource consumption stats. Please