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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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John, I'm afraid it wouldn't make much difference to me, since I use a
HLL )PL/1) to post-process all my SMF data. If it'll help, I'll try to
find my PL/1 DECLARE statements for the SMF records I process.
Rick
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