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IBM Z Observability Connect

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Native Z HMC to Observability Connect for IBM Z LinuxONE

Request enhancement to enable direct collection of IBM Z / LinuxONE Z HMC metrics into IBM Observability Connect, with automatic transformation into OpenTelemetry (OTEL) format, allowing integration with Splunk Observability, Dynatrace, and other ...
3 days ago in IBM Z Observability Connect 0 Submitted

A utility to analyze SMF & syslog volume, and then suggest sizes for components

Since IBM has the zPET env., it should be reasonable to create workload to drive CICS, IMS, Db2, MQ, etc., and see at what point ZAPM Connect + CDP croaks.The sizing exercise should be data driven, i.e., based on SMF/log data from each customer en...
3 days ago in IBM Z Observability Connect 0 Submitted