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IBM Z Common Data Provider

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Support Db2 102 Class 7 Statistics

Db2 class 7 statistics in SMF 102 will help in debugging client connections to Db2. MF 102 Class(7) - IFCID(365) data DSN.V12R1M0.SDSNIVPD(DSNWMSGS) Line 00000003630000 QW00 |_________________________________________________________|0000 QW00 | |0...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Delivered

CDP does not support ATTLS

In our company we us ATTLS to encrypt network traffic of the mainframe applications. According to IBM case TS004537625, CDP does not support ATTLS to encrypt the traffic from the data streamer to the data receivers.IBM has always encouraged the us...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Delivered

Full qualified dataset names with definition by wildcard

Hi,in our development environment there are many liberty profile instances within cics (up to 50) and development has the possibility to delopy their applications in any liberty instance by their own via ucd. These applications write their own log...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Delivered

Dynamically adding file definition to CDP by cooperation with UCD

Hi,in our development environment there are many liberty profile instances within cics (up to 50) and development has the possibility to delopy their applications in any liberty instance by their own via ucd. These applications write their own log...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Delivered

dynamic update of a policy without stopping CDP started tasks.

Today, when we update a policy, we have to stop start SDE, LF and DS to activate the changes. It's not acceptable in a production environment.
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 2 Delivered

CDPz: support nonprintable characters for datatype 6 of SMF80DTA

System: Product Common Data Provider for z Systems Actor: User needing support for nonprintable characters for datatype 6 of SMF80DTA CDPz collects operational data from z/OS SMF, syslog, joblogs and other sources and sends to subcribers (analytic...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 2 Delivered

Support of logs from sequential zFS files

CDP should be able to collect user log data from z/OS sequential files. Support is currently available for USS zFS files, but the most common way of writing logs is flat files on z/OS. This function was already available in previous version of the...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Delivered

CDPz use fluentd, maximum packet size size, shorter wait to retry

1. Official support for Logstash and FluentD protocols CDPz officially supports Logstash, inhouse GTI Databus officially supports FluentD The connections seem to work, both support using JSON formatted data. We can not depend on software ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Delivered

Open/Close every output DD specified in HBOPDE batch input

When using HBOPDE in batch (e.g. SHBODEFS(HBOUA2D4) as SYSIN) to process DB2 SMF records, sometimes output datasets are not created if there are no corresponding DB2 SMF records found in input. This causes issues with a nightly batch process that ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Delivered

Stop the duplication of job log data by Log Forwarder

With CDPz, each LPAR in a plex has its own instances of the product. When a plex has multiple LPARs, the Log data is typically shared and available to all LPARs in the plex. This means every LPAR reads and transmits the log data, therefore, the su...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Delivered