Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

12735 I can see the topic is pretty old, but I don't see straight forward technique on how to do this. Here is a method as a proof of concept of calling REXX from SAS and passing parameters. We can call REXX from SAS then do some REXX functions like check the existence of dataset or issue console c...

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We need to make a report using SMF to get the accounting informtion for DB2 and IMS. Ours is an IMS dominated company and DB2 usage is approtioned in IMS CPU usage. What is the tool should we use for accessing SMF records? Will SORT be a goof tool for this?

I had been looking for examples for this. If I find one will post here.

Hello, Unfortunately I don't have mainframe access as of now and can't really see it working. But I was looking for a way to suppress messages from TSO. I looked at a REXX code that uses EXECUTIL and was thinking if it could do that? From the Manual z/OS TSO/E REXX Reference SA32-0972-00 Use HT (Hal...

Hi, Can we call REXX routine from SAS, does anyone can share some example of doing it? Please consider the following snippets: /* REXX */ Arg userprm Say 'Parameter passed is' userprm Return 0 JCL for SAS: //SAS EXEC SAS //SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=* //SASREXX DD DISP=SHR, // DSN=AB1234.EXEC //FILES DD * A...