This is a type of "opinion poll" question. In general, it could be reduced to: "What do you think of XML encoded data?". In particular, the nice RACF people have a program `which unloads their SMF audit data in XML format as an option. What is nice about it is that the data is printable and so easily downloaded to my Linux system. XML formatting is nice because it easier to read using Java and XSLT processor to do queries and reformatting. Which makes it easier for me to load into a database (PostgreSQL based in my case). I would find it very helpful to me if more SMF records could be made available in XML character format so that I could easily process it on Linux. So I'm wondering what others think of this? Does anybody else like XML? Or am I, once again, in the minority? Yes, I could write an HLASM program myself to do this. Perhaps by somehow reading ADATA output to generate a program to do it.
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