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Greaseman
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Does anyone know of a way to determine what FOCEXECs were run over a year's time on a mainframe? We used to have mainframe SAS that could read and deal with SMF records, but no longer have that product. And, SMF records are a pain to work with, since they are variable in record length and in blocking.

Again, this is a mainframe question and we are not using WebFOCUS.

Thank you.

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Mainframe FOCUS, Rel 7.1.1 running on MVS/TSO
Windows XP, Mainframe VM/CMS and MVS/TSO
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<JG>
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I would suspect that you either need to license FOCLOG or Site Analyser if you do not want to use SMF.

But you'll only start collecting stats once they are installed and running.

However I would check with IBI, there may already be some masters for SMF mapping the various record types used by FOCUS.
 
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Waz
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You could also do what we do here.

Call a small FEX with a MODIFY that writes the fex name + other info to a FOCUS DB.


Waz...

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We append log information to a text file. And create a new text file each day. Makes it a little harder to process using WebFOCUS but we can also read it into Excel etc.

Information we log is date, time, username, program name and some of the parameters that have been selected e.g. the week number (so we can tell whether people are running reports on current or historic data)


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susannah
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we do what Waz does.
we have an includable module at the top of every fex, that module sits in the baseapp,
and it writes the &FOCFEXNAME, the &SM_USER (whatever your user id is), the &YYMD date,
and this is very important: a random variable!
so that the MODIFY won't trip over itself when the same user clicks alot.
just create a bunch of &vars, and load them to the end of the db.
If you have the file in DATE-TIME order, then you're just appending all the time, so the db doesn't get corrupted or need REBUILDING. 

MODIFY FILE efinusage
FIXFORM DATE/A8 X1 TIME/A8 X1 USERID/A8 X1 FEXNAME/A20 X1 DOMAIN/A8 X1 CORP/A5 X1 RANDOM/A8
MATCH DATE
 ON MATCH CONTINUE
 ON NOMATCH INCLUDE DATE
MATCH TIME
 ON MATCH CONTINUE
 ON NOMATCH INCLUDE TIME
MATCH USERID
 ON MATCH CONTINUE
 ON NOMATCH INCLUDE USERID
MATCH FEXNAME
 ON MATCH CONTINUE
 ON NOMATCH INCLUDE FEXNAME DOMAIN CORP
MATCH RANDOM
 ON MATCH REJECT
 ON NOMATCH INCLUDE RANDOM
 DATA
&YYMD &TOD &ftuser &ftname &ftdomain &ftcorp &ftrandom
 END
-RUN
 USE CLEAR *
 END



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