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IBM Z Common Data Provider

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Allow using pre-existing Kafka cluster with Common Data Provider

In sensitive / high-restrictions environments, it's not possible to deploy our own little Kafka cluster, let alone with the auto-creation of topics.It is necessary to point to the existing Kafka footprint in an env., and to use mTLS for authn/auth...
about 23 hours ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Submitted

Enable AT-TLS for CDP and make it use certificates in RACF

In environments with tighter security controls, storing .p12 files 'willy nilly' is not allowed.Like Omegamon Data Provider, please make CDP support working with certificates associated with the CDP STC owner's keyring in RACF, and let AT-TLS hand...
7 days ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Under review

zCDP to support IMS log records 4518, 451A and 451B

Currently zCDP only suports the following checkpoint statistics records: from 4502 to 4508. We are a heavy user of IMS Connect and the records 4518, 451A and 451B contains a lot of data that we would like to extract and stream. 4518 contains indiv...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Under review

Don't include 64-bit common buffer storage for HBOSMF task in a SVC dump

We have experienced sysplex wide slow down events due to dump processing having to capture large 64-bit common memory objects. To prevent dump processing causing system wide performance issues, it was recommeded by IBM to not include 64-bit common...
6 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Under review

SMF92-subtype 51 to 59 in zCDP

We're currently working on zFS statistics to tune the performance, looking at HBORS092 member in CDP SHBODEFS, it looks like the SMF92 subtype 5x are missing (51 to 59). Could you please update zCDP and create some nice datastreams to monitor zFS ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

Additional fields required by UKO Crypto Connect CAT

We're working on API for IBM Z Crypto Discovery & Inventory product which provides SMF records streaming and further processing. We noticed during implementation that there are fields missing in SMF 82 subtypes 31/40/41/42/44/45/46. These miss...
5 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 2

Add hardcoded TCP/IP Support for SMF119 subtype 12(zert) Records.

Support is currently provided for subtype 11 records defined in the base code of zCDP5.1. Added support of subtype 12's will allow us to track more detailed TLS/IPSEC certificate information. We will also be able to view TLS/SSH failed handshakes.
6 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1

Enable zCDP to use SMF042-15 and 16 17 18 19 subtypes to see VSAM RLS statistics

Currently, there is no way with zCDP to print uesful statistics about BMF in VSAM RLS.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Future consideration

update zCDP to support new fields in SMF30 : OA65055: NEW FUNCTION - Java usage reporting in SMF type 30 record SMF30CAS section

please update zCDP to have the new fields in SMF30CAS
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

Support of SMF105 GDPS Global Mirror

I see that PH57707 has been created for support of SMF105 in TDS, would it be possible to do the same for CDP (HBORS105/HBOUS105) and also create a datastream for it.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Planned for future release