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    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...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Not under consideration

    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 ...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

    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 ?
    about 2 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 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
    about 2 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

    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
    about 2 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future consideration

    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...
    5 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Under review

    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 ...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 2

    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.
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 3 Not under consideration

    SMF Datastream for summarized SMF116 records

    IBM could provide SMF Datastream for summarized SMF116 records. since SMF116 produces more records, it's better to summarize the records for each 1 minute interval by queue. This way, we can keep the data in manageable size and it can produce valu...
    6 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Functionality already exists

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

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

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