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JOHAN NEVENS posted Nov 13, 2023 11:19 AM

At our site we would like to replace the existing SAS/MXG accounting cycle we currently use for IDMS with a tool that can read and process our IDMS SMF records.

The data would also have to be stored for a while (eg. in our IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS) to be able to draw a report on historical data.

Does anyone have experience with existing tools that can handle IDMS SMF records?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Kind regards,
Johan

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Scott Barry

It will be important to understand clearly about your current SAS code-script processing that is used to perform any cost-accounting data-table associations that map your IDMS environment (system, CVs, USERIDs, transactions, program-names, other attributes) to a suitable cost-accounting identification string(s). One would expect that you will need to coordinate time/effort with the MXG software admin, which handles the MXG IDMS/PERFMON SMF data decoding -- that challenge will need to be addressed with some other programming solution / reporting utility, in order to extract the key/required data-fields from each IDMS SMF PMAM transaction record for harvesting both "identification data-values" and also event timestamps and your site's choice for "consumption" metrics, such as CPU-time.

Likely this process is processed today, either daily or monthly, depending on your downstream accounting-software data-feed requirements but also IDMS PERFMON SMF data-volume.

Frankly, if your site is seriously considering just such a "replacement" for cost-accounting / chargeback for IDMS, I'd expect you will be experiencing similar challenges with all of your z/OS MVS cost-areas (e.g., 1) batch, TSO, started-tasks using SMF 30 data, 2) CICS using SMF 110 subtype 1 data, 3) DB2 using SMF 101 thread/package data, and so on).  Each of these "topic areas" have their own distinct challenges when addressing IT Resource Mgmt Cost-Allocation / Chargeback / Show-Back / <whatever>.

Wish you luck with your challenge at-hand, Johan !!

Regards,

Scott Barry
SBBTech LLC