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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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 2 Planned for future release

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...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add option to specify ID for owner of new and existing zCDP policy files

This would help address an audit requirement, as it is against policy for personal IDs to own files in Production environment. Currently, the file owner of the zCDP policy files is the ID of the individual who created the zCDP policy.
9 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1 Under review

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...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 2 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 2 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1 Future consideration

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...
6 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Under review

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...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0

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 ...
2 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1 Planned for future release

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...
3 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Under review

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...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1 Not under consideration

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