See http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/tipstechniques/applicationdevelopment/rexx_smf_part4/ for a great REXX example (SMF type 30).
BTW, with z/OS 2.1 Rexx can read VBS's so it is now very well equipped to easily read dumped SMF records. Regards, Yifat -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: 15 June 2015 13:44 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Is there any tools or interface which could analyse or monitor SYS1.MANX directly? Charles Mills wrote: >SMF record formats are all documented (some a lot more thoroughly than others >LOL). Of course. Just have a good calculator ready... ;-D >Having somehow queued your records for further processing, you can do analysis >to your heart's content in assembler, COBOL, or your language of choice. With COBOL? Can you read RAW SMF records like SMF type 30 with all its sections with COBOL? [1] With Assembler that is easy and I have written numerous Assembler programs, but for COBOL, I need to read+copy raw SMF records with an Assembler program and then re-read/process those copied records with a COBOL program. How do you handle variable record lengths and varying sections lengths and quantities and their offsets with COBOL? Any examples, please? Now, Can you do that same reading and handling raw SMF records with REXX, Perl, PL/I [I believe you can, I faintly remembered seeing some ancient progs for SMF handling], etc? Oh, ICETOOL has already some nice examples, but I also don't see a way to handle SMF records like SMF type 30 and all their sections. TIA. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht [1] - I have written COBOL programs but for fixed record lengths, like SMF 17, SMF 18 and such. Those COBOL programs were needed to trap culprits who deleted/renamed datasets (and said 'I did not do that!') before RACF was fully in place. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
