Not a real answer - but more of a side question for others. Whenever I
wanted a quick look at SMF records I would dump what I was interested in
to my own dataset, which was VBS of course. Then I used an auth command
we had called DSCBMOD (maybe from CBT?) to change VBS to VB and I was
off and browsing or rexx'ing or whatever.
My assumption (note first 3 letters of assumption) was that I never
cared about the far right-hand side of the records - so I wasn't missing
anything important. Or was I really missing entire records?
On 8/2/2021 12:40 PM, Bob Bridges wrote:
I've worked at a number of mainframe installations, and at many of them I've
encountered a dataset that logs usage of CICS transactions. Usually it's a
GDG, either weekly or monthly, wherein each record contains a transaction, a
user ID and a count. I'm not a CICS support guru -- in fact in my 15 years of
COBOL development, before I got into security, somehow I managed to avoid CICS
even on the coding side -- so I'm ignorant of how it was done, but I surmise
CICS can produce this log periodically. Can anyone tell me how it's invoked?
Or if you're about to tell me it's not CICS but SMF, then a different question:
Last I heard, SMF records are VBS and REXX won't read VBS records. How does
one cross that bridge? Is there an SMF utility that can be persuaded to write
out selected records in some other RECFM?
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