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IBM Z Common Data Provider

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new members HBORSxxx et HBOUSxxx for DFSMS-HSM FSR records

Hi, It would be useful to have this SMF record streamed by CDP : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=areas-fsrfunction-statistics-record That would give a LOG of what's happening in DFHSM. Regards Régis
2 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Under review

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 ...
10 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

Support of SMF105 GDPS Global Mirror

I see that PH57707 has been created for support of SMF105 in TDS, would it be possible to do the same for CDP (HBORS105/HBOUS105) and also create a datastream for it.
7 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Planned for future release

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
10 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0

SMF records type 70 for Crypto should show show the nickname CEX8C instead of binary value x'13'

R7023CT OFFSET 1 LENGTH 1 BINARY, -- Binary Crypto processor type -- X'03' = PCICC PQ78777 -- X'05' = PCIXCC (z990 only) PQ78777 -- X'07' = CEX2C à10A -- X'09' = CEX3C à10A -- X'10' = CEX4C à16A -- X'11' = CEX5C à21a -- X'12' = CEX6C à23A Manipula...
8 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Not under consideration

update zCDP to support new fields in SMF30 : OA65055: NEW FUNCTION - Java usage reporting in SMF type 30 record SMF30CAS section

please update zCDP to have the new fields in SMF30CAS
10 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

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.
8 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 3 Not under consideration

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
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0

HBOG054E message to be sent to syslog

Today, HBOG054E is issued only to STDERR, wouil it be possible to have it sent to the SYSLOG, so that we can trap it via System Automation and raise an lert ?
11 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

zHyperlink statistics Synchronous I/O Section 1 is missing in CDP for SMF42

zHyperlink statistics Synchronous I/O Section 1 is missing in CDP for SMF42
11 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release