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IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics

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Full support of SMF102 data

CDP / ZLDA only supports a limited subset of SMF102 records. At a minimum, IFCID 145 and IFCID 142 are required; ideally all of the fields within SMF102 are needed. The customer has chosen Splunk as a strategic platform for enterprise log analysis...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 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 1 year ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 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...
12 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1 Future consideration

Provide real time indexing for z/OS sequential datasets

I'm not sure which workspace is appropriate - please help find a home for this? We generate terrabytes of log and SMF data every day, but much of it is hard to retrieve because of the amount of data. Could we have a splunk like model of indexing o...
6 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Align all Mainframe Log data from zLDA to SPLUNK with respect to displaying/using consistent timezones from CICS, Netview, Websphere and SYSLOG to all use the same timezones.

This enhancement is not only "useful" but necessary. The amount of time we spend in supporting the product due to "inconsistent" and confusing timezones depending on which type of Mainframe log we are viewing is onerous. It's basically impossible ...
9 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1 Planned for future release

IZOA-CWS- create team-based alerts, instead of individual alerts

Hi IBM, we have a customer that is looking to create team-based alerts, instead of individual alerts. This means that, anyone defined as a team member to IZOA, can browse/edit the alerts created by their team. We don't want to use a shared RACF ID...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 2 Future consideration

Supply more details in RACF SMF_80_COMMAND records

IBM Z Operational Log and data Analytics has support for a lot of RACF SMF records. One of them is RACf SMF_80_COMMAND. This records logs all issued RACF commands. We're very interested in e.q. ALTUSER commands. The records list Who issued the com...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0

Separation of UserLogs (Generic Data Streams) from Z System Data

After working with User Log files with the ZCDP/ZLDA product, we've come to the opinion that these Application USER LOGS (Generic streams) would be better managed if hosted separately from the standard Z-based infrastructure data stream feeds proc...
8 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1 Future consideration

Add API Requester support for all product dashboards and searches.

There is a gap in the zLDA (5.1) product. API Provider (SMF 123 records) information is visible on product dashboards and searches, but API Requester (same SMF123 records different subtype) information is not. Our company is using these API Reques...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0

zLDA user log from JES Spool does not work when batch jobs are offloaded from JES to an archival product like "SAR".

Large MF (Enterprise) shops like CITI immediately offload batch for archival -- without this support the "user logs" from Spool to Splunk is not working for us. Our developers will not add VSAM ESDS files to batch jobs -- they will move forward a...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 3 Not under consideration

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