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Hi there, this has been shipped under APAR PH53070. Thank you for opening this idea. Louisa
This Idea requires the suppressing Statistics records that contain zero values from extract/streaming. Supressing these records could potentially significantly reduce the number of records loaded into analytical tools, in this case Splunk. The user has provided examples of these records which does illustrate the problem, hence we will accept this Idea for consideration.
An interim solution:
The user can a create Splunk filter to exclude records during ingestion as described here https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.0.2/Data/DataIngest”
Also, I believe that it would be worthwhile supressing these records at the source, i.e. CICS would optionally not write Statistics records (SMF110 subtype 2) when they do not contain any statistics, significantly reducing the volume and size of the SMF records as well as postprocessing of these records. I would encourage Wells Fargo to raise a CICS TS Idea to supress them.