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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories Communications Server
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 15, 2018

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CSV Format for NETSTAT DISPLAY Commands

We use a lot of displays to see current system status, Many of these commands have counters that we want to import to excel to be able to track. For example VDPT would be nice to track over time changes in counts or different values (such as TSR). However we have to write a parser to go through the output and scrape this data out. If we could specify a FORMAT option of CSV to give us a CSV output this would make our lives much easier.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Aug 13, 2020

    While the rationale of the requested enhancement is reasonable it requires significant effort and complexity to netstat to implement this, especially given the number of reports and amount of data that netstat formats. This data is also available in binary format using the TCP/IP Network Management Interface (NMI). That interface allows this data collection more efficiently than netstat and allows exploiters to render the data in any format they support. There are also network management products that consume this data from NMI and provide their own reports. Netview of z/OS for example, allows the collection and reporting of the much of the VDPT display information over several time intervals. As a result this request is being closed as it will not likely be implemented. We suggest exploring some of the alternatives mentioned.

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