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IBM Z Common Data Provider

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Don't include 64-bit common buffer storage for HBOSMF task in a SVC dump

We have experienced sysplex wide slow down events due to dump processing having to capture large 64-bit common memory objects. To prevent dump processing causing system wide performance issues, it was recommeded by IBM to not include 64-bit common...
2 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Under review

Adjustable maximum messages per block for Generic HTTP subscribers

We have a requirement to send z/OS messages (OPERLOG) to a security operations centre (SOC). The Generic HTTP subscriber of IBM z Common Data Provider sends the data, but an arbitrary number of messages are batched together. Our requirement is to ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Under review

iZWS datastream to support wildcards like * or % in the PATH

Today I have to define 2 datastreams to see EQQCPD1 and EQQCDP2
3 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Under review

CDP sending data to splunk reducing complexity

Problem: CDP sends our JSON log lines as part of a message field/value to Splunk. In this process the Json gets stringified \”key\”: \”value\”. Splunk cannot extract this string by default like it does when sending the logs via the by Splunk recom...
4 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Under review

stream RMF III sysplex XCFPTH and XCFSYS (xcf statistics) to CDP

It would be useful to stream these panels to Splunk using CDP
5 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Under review

Add SMF_122 to CDP configuration

SMF record type 122, subtype 1 is created by Developer for z/OS® host components each time a client requests an activation token. It can be useful for system administrators and performance managers to analyze this SMF through CDP. For now this SMF...
5 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Under review