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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 12, 2024

SMF records type 70 for Crypto should show show the nickname CEX8C instead of binary value x'13'

R7023CT OFFSET 1 LENGTH 1 BINARY, 
-- Binary Crypto processor type 
-- X'03' = PCICC PQ78777 
-- X'05' = PCIXCC (z990 only) PQ78777 
-- X'07' = CEX2C à10A 
-- X'09' = CEX3C à10A 
-- X'10' = CEX4C à16A 
-- X'11' = CEX5C à21a 
-- X'12' = CEX6C à23A 

Manipulating CEX* values is easier in Splunk that to have to deal with the binary values

Idea priority Low
  • Admin
    Kekahu Aluli
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    Jun 11, 2024

    Hi - thank you for submitting this Idea. At this time we will not be able to accommodate this request. This is a very large work effort for our team to support this conversion, and would be difficult to maintain because the value could easily be changed or extended by the owner of a SMF record. We also have other products like IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics that rely on the original value(s) to do the analysis.


    As an alternative path, you can always create a custom data stream and so the conversion on your end if you’d like. Again thank you for this Idea and if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me via email (Kekahu.aluli@ibm.com) or reply to this thread. Thanks!