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IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics

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Align all Mainframe Log data from zLDA to SPLUNK with respect to displaying/using consistent timezones from CICS, Netview, Websphere and SYSLOG to all use the same timezones.

This enhancement is not only "useful" but necessary. The amount of time we spend in supporting the product due to "inconsistent" and confusing timezones depending on which type of Mainframe log we are viewing is onerous. It's basically impossible ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1 Planned for future release

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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1 Future consideration

zLDA user log from JES Spool does not work when batch jobs are offloaded from JES to an archival product like "SAR".

Large MF (Enterprise) shops like CITI immediately offload batch for archival -- without this support the "user logs" from Spool to Splunk is not working for us. Our developers will not add VSAM ESDS files to batch jobs -- they will move forward a...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 3 Not under consideration

add control panel to the IZOA Splunk app, where the user can specify index configuration to do an out-of-the-box install

The Splunk IZOA app is made for a single instance Splunk and if you want to roll it out on a cluster you always have to make adjustments. The IZOA Splunk app needs a lot of indexes, but each customer will have their own naming conventions, retenti...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 7 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1

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