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IBM Z Common Data Provider

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CDPz new feature to capture ALL JES2 sysouts instead just JOBLOG

We have presented CDPz to customer and as Logs consolidation strategy, customer wants to capture all JES2 SYSOUTS and send it to distributed platform. As CDPz is a solution to capture mainframe data, maybe this feature can be added in the roadmap.
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future consideration

SMF record data streams currently have no options available alternative CCSID parameter to indicate the source CCSID

Customer is having problems with field User Name in RACF which is in Hebrew, all other fields are in English and transmitting properly. They are using IBM Hebrew CCSID 424. For SMF80DTA, the field can show garbage data for many cases, not just CCS...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future consideration

Data Stream for SMF249 from DVM

The customer is using IBM Z Common Data Provider (zCDP) to stream SMF records in real-time to their Splunk. zCDP provides policies for all the non user define SMF records, the SMF249 is a user define record, hence zCDP can't reference o it, so it ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Planned for future release

choosing different splunk hec endpoints

We are in need to choose/use another splunk hec endpoint which is impossible at the moment.We do need at least use the splunk hec raw endpoint for sending data which need to be processed in splunk before they are entering the splunk index.e.g. com...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 2 Future consideration

Alow Editing/Viewing of Customized Data Stream Definitions for CDPz

There is no interface to View/Edit Customized Data Stream Definitions after creating them which is ridiculous. I would have to start from scratach to correct or update user Customized definitions. Why provide an interface to allow for customized d...
about 5 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future consideration

Generic support for multi-line messages in any log (extension to RFE 114470)

As we encounter multi-line messages not only in z/OS Syslog but in Java logs (e.g.), Joblogs and user written logs as well we need a generic approach for CDP to recognize a multi-line message. A user should be able to define a configuration includ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future consideration

CDP read user application log from logstream

CCB has some user application data writing to logstream , they want CDP forward the log the ELK
about 7 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Future consideration