MXG Adapters — Accessing Raw Data

Processing SMF Records in UNIX and Windows Environments

About Accessing MXG Raw Data

MXG creates SAS data sets for each of the data sources that it supports. These data sets can be accessed directly by the adapter staging code.

Note: Starting with SAS IT Resource Management 3.5, the IT Resource Management staged tables and columns for adapters based on MXG are the same as the MXG data set and variable names on which they are based. They no longer use the former IT Resource Management format of seven characters, and an eighth character to represent the statistic in the summarization levels.

MXG supports the following data sources:

ASG TMON2CIC
ASG TMONDB2
ASG TMONDB2 V5
BMC Mainview IMS
CA TMS
DT Perf Sentry with MXG
IBM DCOLLECT
IBM EREP
IBM SMF
IBM TPF
IBM VMMON

For information about the IBM SMF performance areas that are collected by MXG, see SMF Adapter - RMF Domain Category and SMF Adapter - Jobs, TSO, and OMVS Domain Categories.

Note: For information about working with IBM SMF Custom Tables, see Working with IBM SMF Custom Tables.For information about working with MXG Code to stage data, see Working with MXG Code to Stage Data.

Processing SMF Records in UNIX and Windows Environments

In UNIX or Windows SAS IT Resource Management server environments, SMF raw records can remain in the z/OS environment. The staging transformation can read these records directly using the SAS FTP access method.

Alternatively, FTP can be used to separately download these SMF records to an ASCII environment. In this situation, the local SMF filename should be specified in the SMF staging transformation instead of FTP. In a production environment, this download might be done along with the daily, operational SMF gathering process, which typically runs overnight. To achieve this, the FTP batch job should override the DCB parameters for the input SMF data with RECFM=U and BLKSIZE=32760. For more information, see the INSTALL member of the MXG source library (MXG.SRCLIB). For information about how to access that library, see About MXG Adapters.