Black Hill Software produces tools to help you get the information you need from your z/OS SMF data.
- EasySMF for z/OS runs on Windows and provides a suite of SMF reports designed to help Systems Programmers manage their systems.
- EasySMF:JE provides Java classes to map SMF and DCOLLECT data. Develop custom reports, and run them on z/OS or distributed platforms.
- EasySMF:RTI provides a Java API for the z/OS SMF Real Time Interface. Use it to write Java programs to process SMF data in real time, without using system exits or APF authorized code.
EasySMF for z/OS
EasySMF produces interactive reports from z/OS SMF data on your PC.
- Switch between different reports for the same time range, to easily relate information from different SMF records.
- Zoom into and drill through reports to see more information.
- Built in FTP client to load SMF data directly from SMF dump datasets.
Alternatively, load SMF data from PC files, zip files or TSO TRANSMIT format files. - Send data from tabular reports directly to Excel 2007 or later.
EasySMF:JE
EasySMF:JE is a Java API for processing SMF data.
It can run on z/OS, Windows, Linux and other Java platforms and is zIIP eligible on z/OS.
Experience writing reports for EasySMF has shown what is required to produce a powerful and easy to use API for processing SMF data. We have used this experience to design the API for EasySMF:JE.
- Classes represent different SMF records and record sections.
- Methods use a common pattern for reading sections from the records.
- SMF data is converted to Java data types. Dates and times are converted to java.time classes, so you don’t have to deal with the many different units used in SMF data.
EasySMF:RTI
EasySMF:RTI is a Java API for the z/OS SMF Real Time Interface.
The z/OS SMF Real Time Interface is provided by IBM and allows programs to read SMF data as it is produced, without system exits or authorized code. Access to SMF real time in-memory resources is protected by RACF.
EasySMF:RTI allows you to process real time SMF data in Java programs.
- Create SMS text message alerts for job failures.
- Forward SMF data to another system for real time processing.