John, IMO, the first problem to solve would be to create a good model/schema description for SMF records - the DSECTS are really insufficient (actual data types and structure can only be gleaned from the comments or other documentation)
If you had an XML document that *described* each SMF record that covered the SMF datatypes, "triplets", etc, etc, then you could use this XML "schema" to generate code that would translate from the existing SMF records to whatever - XML, JSON, Java bean classes, DFSORT symbols, report writers, etc, etc. A great community (cbttabpe?) project would be to create an XML meta-model (a schema) for modeling SMF records, and then individuals and vendors could publish models for their SMF records. Think of the great tools that could be easily written to process SMF data if these models were available.... Regards, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:19 AM, McKown, John <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > John McKown > Systems Engineer IV > IT > > Administrative Services Group > > HealthMarkets(r) > > 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 > (817) 255-3225 phone * > [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or > proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please > contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original > message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and > issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake > Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of > TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
