Recent sample data

[v1gnesh]

The test data is from 2016 (8 years ago).
Please upload for MQ 9.4... and maybe more than a few kilobytes, please.

[v1gnesh]

Any thoughts, @ibmmqmet ?

[Crosswind]

@v1gnesh I am no maintainer of this repository and I don't speak on behalf of Marc but if I was a maintainer I would like to better understand the rationale behind your request. Are you having issues analyzing SMF data from your system and are looking for sample data to make sure the data you are collecting is correct?

[v1gnesh]

Are you having issues analyzing SMF data from your system and are looking for sample data to make sure the data you are collecting is correct?

@Crosswind I'm trying to nudge Z ecosystem to be more open, now that zOS instances are more freely available via zPDT, IBM cloud, OMP, etc.
For an open source community to truly exist for Z, access to material like this needn't be this restricted/outdated.
Otherwise, mainframers are forced to see GitHub as just a distribution mechanism (alternate to vendor.com), rather than true open source like CBT.

[ibmmqmet]

If someone provided some additional newer test data with the latest structures then I might consider using it, but it would have to be very small - the purpose of the test data here is simply to check that the program works. It is not intended to be a full-blown demonstration of what can be achieved with SMF data.

Typically, the data I use locally is not suitable to be released publicly - it would need sanitising to remove things like customer names and object definitions. And github does not really like large amounts of binary data in repos.

[v1gnesh]

Thanks @ibmmqmet, Perhaps something (small I suppose) from an IBM lab/testing environment?

[ibmmqmet]

The latest version (v5.5.1) has got a new sample data file.
See testing/data/SMF_MQ940_NORDW.bin. Format it using the -f nordw option.

[v1gnesh]

Thank you (and Lyn) for considering, and the heftier file. Any chance of including the RDW?

[ibmmqmet]

No.

And since many sites' download processes now exclude the option of using the basic ftp with its rdw option, it's much more likely that working with nordw is going to be needed. So sample data that works that way is useful.

[v1gnesh]

When you say basic ftp, do you mean non-secure ftp?
I can share a python script to do FTP TLS and perhaps make a CLI app out of it... in case it'll benefit others.
Otherwise, I'm curious about how download without rdw is allowed but with isn't.

[ibmmqmet]

I mean that many sites now mandate use of secure transfers and only via sftp which does not have the rdw option in its command options. There are ways of using ftps, but that's different.

[v1gnesh]

Okay, thanks. I'll see if I can insert RDWs somehow..