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IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics

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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...
4 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1 Future consideration

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

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

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...
about 5 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...
over 2 years 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...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Future consideration

Insight for zOS LOGREC

We identified that if we had zOS LOGREC mapped in an Insight for IOAZ , some occurrences of errors could be verified for take a preventive action . Recently, we had several occurrences in DB2 area where the error messages was logged ONLY in LOGREC...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 2 Future consideration