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Separation of UserLogs (Generic Data Streams) from Z System Data

After working with User Log files with the ZCDP/ZLDA product, we've come to the opinion that these Application USER LOGS (Generic streams) would be better managed if hosted separately from the standard Z-based infrastructure data stream feeds proc...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1 Future consideration

Avoid appearance of \" in smfid and message field of SYSLOG/OPERLOG in Humio

Today, if the SYSLOG/OPERLOG is transferred via CDP to Humio, fields like SMFID or @rawstring, which includes message id and message text, contain characters like \".It would be great if it would be possible to remove those characters before it ap...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Future consideration

Integration of zLDA with ServiceNow

We currently have multiple products that are interfacing with ServiceNow, but want to consolidate (or remove) the redundant products. This is very important to our organization / company that the mainframe data have the ability to port data into S...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Government issued subscriptions for using nicotine, alcohol and cannabis products.

Researchers would benefit from this idea. Also, Governments and Consumers will benefit by implementing a more classy society. Not only that, governments and companies that invest in this idea will make a huge amount of reoccurring income! It’s ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Insight for zOS LOGREC

We identified that if we had zOS LOGREC mapped in an Insight for IOAZ , some occurrences of errors could be verified for take a preventive action . Recently, we had several occurrences in DB2 area where the error messages was logged ONLY in LOGREC...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 2 Future consideration

Extend JMON for performance configuration

Depending on how a user set up his JES filter there could be a huge cpu usage seen for JMON started task. Think of a JES filter all values set to '*' and / or a regular refresh every 5 seconds.There should be configuration options to reduce perfor...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 2 Not under consideration

data set concatenation on remote z/os file search

The Remote z/OS File search should act similar as ISRSUPC in ISPF/SCLM and get an option to search concatenated (like in SCLM). When multiple Data Set Names are specified in the Remote z/OS File Search dialog, please add an option (checkbox) to re...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 1 Not under consideration

Sort Tabs in Remote Shell View

When we have several tabs open in the the Remote Shell view, it would be very helpful if we could sort them in the same way as we can sort the tabs in the editor.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 2 Not under consideration

Explorer needs grouped connections to relate ftp connection and cmci connection together

RBS has multiple sysplex and CICSplex.When switching CMCI session the related FTP session does not switch automatically.Which means the explorer can deliver incorrect results because of a mismatch between active CMCI and FTP session connections. A...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 1 Not under consideration