I'd like to see ADSM support SQL for extracting information from the
database.

Tim Pittson
tpittson AT himail.hcc DOT com

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>From:  Mike Stewart[SMTP:STEWAJM AT AUDUCADM.DUC.AUBURN DOT EDU]
>Sent:  Monday, May 06, 1996 7:04 AM
>To:    Multiple recipients of list ADSM-L
>Subject:       Reply to FW: ADSM Reporting C
>
>*** Original Author:  ADSM-L @ MARIST - ** Remote User **; 05/06/96
>09:11am
>
>Just a word of caution on output redirection of administrative
>commands.... IBM has changed the format between maintenance releases
>(on
>MVS at least, don't know about AIX, etc.)... very frustrating when you
>do some post-processing on these redirected files. On more than 1
>occasion I've put maintenance on the ADSM server only to find the
>format
>of a report has changed from column oriented to 1 field per line or
>vice
>versa.  I haven't put any maintenance on our Version 2 server so can't
>say if this problem still exists....
>
>Tim Pittson
>tpittson AT himail.hcc DOT com
>
>
>*** Comments From: STEWAJM - Stewart, Mike; 05/06/96 11:00am
>Ditto.
>
>There really needs to be an UNLOAD database command
>which will produce a machine readable copy/summary of the database
>suitable for reporting, loading into DB2 (or database of
>choice) etc.
>
>Or maybe a "format=machinereadable" along with
>"format=detailed" for the admin commands.
>
>Mike Stewart
>Mgr. Systems Programming
>Auburn University
>Mike.Stewart AT mail.auburn DOT edu
>