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IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics

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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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1 Future consideration

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

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

Avoid appearance of \" in smfid and message field of SYSLOG/OPERLOG in Humio

Today, if the SYSLOG/OPERLOG is transferred via CDP to Humio, fields like SMFID or @rawstring, which includes message id and message text, contain characters like \".It would be great if it would be possible to remove those characters before it ap...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Future consideration

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