to follow or endeavor to follow as a model or example: to imitate an author's style; to imitate an older brother. to mimic; impersonate: The students imitated the teacher behind her back. to make a copy of; reproduce closely. to have or assume the appearance of; simulate; resemble.
The input device might be a keyboard, the output device might be a monitor, a communication device might be a modem, a secondary storage device might be disk drive, and the processing devices include central processing unit (CPU) and main memory.
Input to Xamine/z390 are SMF records from RMF or CMF and one (optional) record type created by Xamine/z390. After recalculations the information is stored in VSAM datasets. The analyzing part is done in a PC environment by accessing the VSAM datasets interactively via a web bridge.