Getting the most from V8 on OS/390 at the

Health Insurance Commission

Mick Glasson - Glassick Pty Ltd – 24/05/2001

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Agenda

• HIC Overview

• Me @ HIC

• SAS @ HIC

• SAS Online Doc

• Access to DB2

• Output Delivery System (ODS)

• Dynamic web reporting – Internet

• Web applications on OS/390 – Intranet

• SAS/Connect

• Features Etc…….

• New features coming with V8.2

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Disclaimer

• The views expressed in this presentation are my own and not necessarily those of the Health Insurance Commission.

Mick GlassonGlassick Pty LtdMay 2001

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The Health Insurance Commission

• 1974 HIC established to administer Medibank

• 1976 Medibank Private created

• 1984 Responsibilities to administer Medicare

• 1985 Responsibilities for fraud/overservicing

• 1989 Administration of PBS

• 1994 Commonwealth Childcare Rebate Scheme

• 1996 Australian Childhood Immunisation Register

• 1996 compensation case management system

• 1998 30% rebate for private health insurance

• 1999 Australian hearing services

• 2000 Health Research trials

• 2001 Australian organ donor

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The Health Insurance Commission

• Processes over 330 Million transactions each year

– Since 1975 Processed over 7,126,600,000 transactions

• Paying over 9 Billion dollars each year

– Since ’75 payed out $112,612,200,000 dollars

• HIC Purpose

Improving Australia’s health through

payments and information

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Mick @ HIC

• Started at HIC in September 1987 as a TCO

• Senior operator in 1988

• Operations technical specialist in 1990

• A/g shift leader 1991

• Production support analyst 1992

• Performance analyst in 1994

• Senior performance analyst in 1997

• Out-sourced in 2000

• Glassick Pty Ltd.

• Contract with HIC June 2000

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Mick @ HIC

• Development and presentation of an OS/390 training course covering fundamentals in OS/390 hardware and software, TSO/ISPF, JCL, Interactive SAS and SAS performance techniques.

• Batch reporting, automation and redevelopment.• Development of web based applications using

SAS/Intrnet on OS/390 and NT.• Maintenance of the current HIC statistics public

web site.• Onsite SAS Technical support and HIC technical

site representative.• Provide on the job training and support for

reporting teams as required.• Provide technical advice as required.

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Client / Developer

Browser

SAS V8.1

SAS/Connect

TCP/IP

Full Local Client install

Internet & Intranet

NT Servers

Prod, Dev & Test

SAS V8

SAS/IntrNet

SAS/Connect

OS/390 Server

OS/390 2.8

Websphere

TCP/IP 3.?

SAS V8.1

SAS/IntrNet V8.1 & V8.2 early release

SAS/Share

SAS/Connect

SAS/MDDB Server

LAN File and Print Servers

NT

SAS/Warehouse Administrator

SAS Enterprise Miner

SAS AppDev Studio

Mainframe data stays on OS/390 utilising the Performance, Reliability and Scalability that HIC legacy applications enjoy.+1200 MIPS+6 Terabytes DASD+200 Terabytes on Tape

Clients access data from a browser

Dynamic Web Reports

Drill Down

Transparent access to the power of the SAS System on OS/390 when required.

Developers access data via PC SAS or

TSO

HIC SAS SYSTEM CONFIGURATION

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SAS Online Doc

• Installed on OS/390

• Access via browsers on desktop

• Search facility

• Working examples– Familiarity will eventually overcome

reluctance to use

• PDF Version also available

• Not currently installed @ HIC

• Print in booklet format as with downloadable PDF documentation

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Access to DB2

• HIC has 1300 DB2 tables in the production environment. (>690 Gb capacity)

• One libname statement can enable access to entire DB2 environments.

• %HICDB2 macro.

– Can execute and connect to any DB2 subsystem in the sysplex.

– DB2 tables can then be treated as SAS datasets directly.

– Simplifies DB2 access dramatically!

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Output Delivery System (ODS)

• Prior to ODS used in house written code to create simple html.

• Web tools available later for OS/390

• ODS Provides ability to write HTML and RTF, amongst others directly to a PDS, Sequential dataset or HFS

• Direct access by the OS/390 web server or upload to desktop for further processing

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Output Delivery System (ODS)

• Creation of HTML

ods listing close ;ods html body=‘hic.dev.html(sausag)’ rs=none ; or body=‘\websrv\users\imd\sausag.html’ rs=none ;

non graphical SAS procedure output created here

run ;ods html close ;

The URL can then be entered directly from any browser on the HIC intranet to view the output.

• wwwdev/hic/html/sausag.html

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Output Delivery System (ODS)

• Creation of a Rich Text Format document (Windows)

ods _all_ close ;ods rtf body='c:\sasout\test_ods_mapoz.rtf' rs=none ;proc gmap map=maps.austral data=maps.austral2 ; id id ; block id / cblkout=black;

run;quit;ods rtf close;run;

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Create html with graphics included (Windows)

filename odsout 'c:/sasout/' ;

goptions reset=global gunit=pct cback=white

colors=(black blue green red)

ftext=swiss ftitle=swissb htitle=6 htext=4;

ods listing close ;

ods html body='test_ods_graph.html' rs=none

path=odsout;

proc gmap map=maps.austral data=maps.austral2 ;

id id ;

block id / cblkout=black;

run;

quit;

ods html close ;

run;

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Exit here

• Exit to HTML and RTF OZ map.

&

• Exit to view download and upload code when moving data between OS/390 and NT

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Dynamic Web Reporting – Internet

• In production since September 1999• Rewritten as a metadata driven

application in 2000• Intention was to simplify creation of

new information products and subsequent ongoing maintenance

• Currently on NT• Currently produces dynamic tables

and charts• Migration to mainframe possible after

resolution of performance problems

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Web applications on OS/390 - Intranet

• Simple static reporting

– Write reports directly to a PDS or HFS path under the OS/390 Unix shell

– Easy report dissemination for HIC staff

– Default ODS settings produce acceptable format.

– Further enhancements easily added to existing code to include gifs and colours etc

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Web applications on OS/390 - Intranet

• Dynamic performance reports

– Performance data bases (PDB’s) defined to the SAS/Inrnet server (RMF data)

– Form coded and placed in HTML dataset– Can select reporting period and variable– Allocates required PDB’s– Produces charts for all systems in

Sysplex– Quantity of data increases reporting

time– Suitable for internal reporting

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Web applications on OS/390 - Intranet

• Exit to HTML output for RMF reports

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Web applications on OS/390 - Intranet

• Search and update facility– 3 separate databases containing participant

names– Ability to search on names and ID numbers– Ability to update and withdraw participants– Ability to add new participants

• Stateless. Each page• SAS program interprets variables passed

via the CGI and acts accordingly.• SAS code writes out standard headers and

nav bar prior to writing output to _WEBOUT• 1 click Switching between databases,

search, update and add.

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Web application exit

• Exit to Screen shots of web application

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SAS/Connect

• Spawner installed for SAS/Intrnet and SAS/Connect

• Spawner initiates a started task address space under connecting userid.– Inherits RACF authority from userid– Feels more stable than TSO– Increases productivity

• Removes the need to connect to OS/390 via a TSO address space

• Currently using socket services• Load manager and pool services

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Emailing from SAS

• Not working at HIC on OS/390still investigating!!!!

• EMAILHOST= <server>

– Default = localhost• EMAILSYS= MAPI | VIM | SMTP

• EMAILPORT= <SMTP port number>

– Default = 25

• FILENAME fileref EMAIL 'address' <email-options>;

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Features with V8

• Long variable names

• Long dataset names

– Provides self documenting programs?

• File statement options

– DLM=‘,’ – simple creation of CSV files

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SAS System Options

• Validvarname=<V6>

– Handy for “bodgy” old PROC SQL code

• Datastmtchk=<Corekeywords>

– Prevents possible loss of data due to a slip of the finger

Data extract set bigdasd.very_large_dataset; sas statements…….; run ;

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New SAS Functions

• DINFO

• DOPEN

• DOPTNAME

• DOPTNUM

• FOPEN

• FCLOSE

• FDELETE

• FEXIST

• FILENAME

• FILEREF

• FILEEXIST

• FINFO

• PATHNAME

• MOPEN

• FOPTNAME

• FOPTNUM

• LIBNAME

• SYSGET

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SAS Commands

• Interactive SAS commands new since 6.09E– DSINFO– FILENAME– FNAME– LIBNAME– MEMLIST– HOSTEDIT

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Features coming with V8.2

• COMPRESS= SAS will determine if the resulting compressed file will be larger than uncompressed. If so a message will be issued and the file will be uncompressed. V8.2 only

• Bulkload= Calls a DB2-specific bulk load facililty in order to insert or append rows to a DBMS table. V8.2 only

• Improved file compression when using proc upload or download V8.2 only

The EndThanks for your attention

Email mick@glassick.com.au

Or mick.glasson@hic.gov.au

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