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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

Store outputs of the software analyzer in individual files

At the moment the output of all runs is stored in a single file. In the future, we would like the run of every programm anaylized stored in an individual file (XML, JUnit, ...).
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

SMF26BYT and SMFBYU do not appear in Common Data Provider

Could you add these 2 fields please in the product DEFS ?
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future consideration

Possibility to filter z/OS syslog, in order to send only selected messages to subscriber

Customer requested the possibility to filter log messages from z/OS syslog, in order to send only desired MSGids to a subscriber instead of managing all the stream.
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

Improve and expand batch Software Analyzer functionality in IDz (z/os Explorer Extension)

Improve generated reports and outputs from IDz's batch Software Analyzer.Currently, the report that is generated from a batch run is 0 bytes and contains no details.The other files are included in the zip but are xml and hard to analyze.
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 2 Not under consideration

CDP and USS files group option

Currently the CDP user can set the group option to config the collected scope either Sysplex or Lpar only for Generic VSAM and Sequential data sets. For Generic zFS data streams, this option is not enabled. Could you change it please ? TS014662042...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

Improve performance for running code review by JCL

When running a code review/sowftware analyze in IDz it takes miliseconds, when running it by JCL the same code review takes about a minute. Most of the time seems to isolated to starting up a headless instance of eclipse, even when implementing ca...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

Include *.streams.json and *.protocols.json to FMID HHBO510

Would be possible to include *.streams.json and *.protocols.json to the FMID HHBO510 ZFS file? With version 2.1.0, they were included in the ZFS file and the users using ADCD stack (IBM Z Development & Test Environment) were able to use all fu...
9 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 2 Not under consideration

Limit the speed and heap memory usage of the CDP batch SMF load procedure HBOJBCO2

When using batch SMF load procedure HBOJBCO2, it runs too fast which the subscriber like kafka can not process the records at the same speed, then HBOJBCO2 will cause flood the CDP dsta streamer to store the smf records into memory and use out of ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Planned for future release