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IBM Z Common Data Provider

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SMF92-subtype 51 to 59 in zCDP

We're currently working on zFS statistics to tune the performance, looking at HBORS092 member in CDP SHBODEFS, it looks like the SMF92 subtype 5x are missing (51 to 59). Could you please update zCDP and create some nice datastreams to monitor zFS ...
4 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

Enable zCDP to use SMF042-15 and 16 17 18 19 subtypes to see VSAM RLS statistics

Currently, there is no way with zCDP to print uesful statistics about BMF in VSAM RLS.
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future consideration

cdp needs to support xcom smf record (SMF 192)

Customer has competitiive product that supports XCOM SMF 192 record and would like to move to CDP. They need this support to be able to stop using the competitor.
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Under review

stream RMF III sysplex ZFSOVW (zFS overview) to CDP

We're a big user of zFS datasets, therefore we need to look at the CACHE used by systems using RMF, it would be nice to have these metrics streamed to Splunk using Z IBM Common Data Provider
4 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0

RMFIII report STORM in CDP

Could we have RMFIII report STORM in CDP ? we currently have STORR STORC and STORF , but STORM is missing . kind regards Régis
11 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0

CDP CPU usage by workstream

We currently run a single log forwarder and datastreamer on each LPAR. They gather various sysouts and operlog entries for multiple applications to a number of different Splunk and Elastik servers.Require the ability to determine how much CPU each...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Future consideration

CDP and TWS logs

With TWS , there is an option to wite LOGS and messages in a zFS file ( parm CDP(YES) ). Then the zFS file can be streamed online using CDP (Common Data Provider). However the file is not properly formatted as KV (key=value) for Splunk. Could you ...
6 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1

Limit the speed and heap memory usage of the CDP batch SMF load procedure HBOJBCO2

When using batch SMF load procedure HBOJBCO2, it runs too fast which the subscriber like kafka can not process the records at the same speed, then HBOJBCO2 will cause flood the CDP dsta streamer to store the smf records into memory and use out of ...
10 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Planned for future release

Request new SHBODEFS member like HBOUAKZ8, with new fields for newer Z machines like z14, z15 and z16.

IBM cannot change HBOUAKZ8 to add new counters introduced by z14 and later machines. The HBOUAKZ8 job is used to write Db2 UNLOAD file which will be subsequently load to Db2 tables. It has to be consistent with the Db2 schema set in the IZPCA/TDS ...
11 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

Possibility to filter z/OS syslog, in order to send only selected messages to subscriber

Customer requested the possibility to filter log messages from z/OS syslog, in order to send only desired MSGids to a subscriber instead of managing all the stream.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

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