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IBM Z Common Data Provider

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add RMF PCIE panel for Streaming in CDP (Common data provider)

after enabling zHyperlink, it would be usefal that Common data Provider (CDP) could stream PCIE statistics , to use data in Splunk
5 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future consideration

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

delete-trailing-blanks-in-data-receiver-csv-fields

Hi, The data receiver component is supposed to be optimal for sending data to splunk, yet it sends lots of csv fields to splunk with trailing blanks. Customer would like the tool to optionally delete trailing blanks from csv fields and hence prope...
10 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 3 Future consideration

Support RACF Keyring keystore type.

Dear, Currently the Java keystore and the script importCertificate.sh is the only supported method for handling certificates to secure communications between the Data Streamer and subscribers and RACF® keyring is not supported. This approach is no...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future consideration

SMF26BYT and SMFBYU do not appear in Common Data Provider

Could you add these 2 fields please in the product DEFS ?
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future consideration

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

SMF record data streams currently have no options available alternative CCSID parameter to indicate the source CCSID

Customer is having problems with field User Name in RACF which is in Hebrew, all other fields are in English and transmitting properly. They are using IBM Hebrew CCSID 424. For SMF80DTA, the field can show garbage data for many cases, not just CCS...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future consideration

CDPz: One datastreamer for multiple data gatherers from different sysplexes

Today, data gatherers and data streamer are locally defined to each LPAR. If we consider that Data Gatherers ( System Data Engine and Log Forwarder ) should stay local to each LPAR, it makes sense to be able to define only one Datastreamer for mul...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future consideration

CDPz new feature to capture ALL JES2 sysouts instead just JOBLOG

We have presented CDPz to customer and as Logs consolidation strategy, customer wants to capture all JES2 SYSOUTS and send it to distributed platform. As CDPz is a solution to capture mainframe data, maybe this feature can be added in the roadmap.
about 6 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future consideration

choosing different splunk hec endpoints

We are in need to choose/use another splunk hec endpoint which is impossible at the moment.We do need at least use the splunk hec raw endpoint for sending data which need to be processed in splunk before they are entering the splunk index.e.g. com...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 2 Future consideration

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