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Search results: IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics

Add more IFCIDs for DB2 SMF record 102 (to send to Splunk)

Because we need these records in Splunk, to control our Production environment.
about 1 month ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics Under review

More DB2 related Data Stream

Currently the tool does not have the option to send SMF_102_QW140 and SMF_102_QW141 DB2 related SMF records. Our DB2 team needs this SMF records. Is it possible to add these data streams to the tool?
5 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics Planned for future release

Support for IBM JES2 Output Class Compress feature in CDP

Because of limitation of the IBM zCDP Log Forwarder, Customer cannot fully used IBM JES2 Output Class Compress feature to reduce Spool usage in their environment. At the moment they need to use uncompressed Output Classes for Outputs that need to ...
6 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics Under review

Add VSAM KSDS collect like ESDS

Like Generic VSAM Cluster data - IBM Documentation, will be nice to add VSAM KSDS support
6 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics Under review

Turn on write bit in group class for .summary file by default

This would allow multiple zCDP administrators that are connected to the group ID to update the policy file Currently, the default file owner of the zCDP files is whoever created the policy, however we are currently going through the process of man...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics Under review

zCDP Logforwarder to support JES Spool Compression

Support for JES2 spool compression was introduced in z/OS V2R4. Compression can potentially improve system performance and increase capacity by reducing the amount of data that must be written to and read from SPOOL. Data is compressed as it is wr...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics Future consideration

UI-Optimization: various refresh and customize inconveniences (PLAz-Tool)

Product Code 5698-LDA - “Auto Refresh“ after editing and closing an event would make working much easierIf the column width cannot be changed, please DO NOT implement our auto-refresh requirement. After the refresh, the temporarily changed column ...

Paused Until workflow improvement (PLAz tool)

Product Code 5698-LDA To be implemented from the perspective of our SMEs (Deyan Rashev, Yanko Pavlov): Description: The current Paused Until implementation is too error prone and leads to much more work as usually necessary. We need to have automa...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics Future consideration

Support for cAdvisor and Node-exporter to report performance statistics of ZCX and the containers running in the ZCX instance.

We are using ZCX at at a client site. We want to have a performance dashboard about ZCX and the containers running in the ZCX instance. Because we have a license for CDP the idea was raised to see if we can create such a dashboard with the combina...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics Future consideration

VSAM Wild Card

This will allow us to send rotating VSAM datasets to ELK without the need for regular manual intervention.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics Under review