What's new in Version 2.1.0, May 2021

The IBM® Z Common Data Provider Version 2.1.0 documentation was updated in May 2021. Review this summary of changes for information about the updates.

Summary of changes

New features
The following tables summarize the new features and indicate where you can find more information:

For PDF files of the documentation, see PDF files.

Table 1. May 2021: Summary of new features and related information
PTF Primary new features More information
Released in May 2021:
  • UJ05617
 New Currency support
  • Full support of SMF 110_2_xx statistics records
  • IMS records xFA and xF9 from BMC
  • IMS records x01, x03, x5901, x5903
  • Support RMF III CFACT, CHANNEL, CFOVER, CFSYS, ENCLAVE, DEVR
  • New V2 SMF 70 data streams
  • SMF 84 subtype 21
  • SMF 115 and SMF 116 for MQ Version support
  • Support WebSphere Liberty logs
Supports specifying non-default SMF record type of CA-ACF2. The SET statement
IBM Z Common Data Provider supports sending data to Apache Kafka.
IBM Z Common Data Provider supports sending data to Humio directly or via Logstash. Preparing to send data to Humio
IBM Z Common Data Provider supports setting up secured communications between the Data Streamer and its subscribers with non self-signed certificates. Securing communications using non self-signed certificate
IBM Z Common Data Provider supports batch load of SYSLOG data. Creating the Log Forwarder batch job for sending SYSLOG data to the Data Streamer
IBM Z Common Data Provider supports DVIPA for its components.
IBM Z Common Data Provider supports filtering SMF Data collection in a shared log stream. The SET statement
IBM Z Common Data Provider supports capturing metrics for streaming data. Metrics capture function in the Data Streamer
IBM Z Common Data Provider supports turning on and off statistics data for the System Data Engine while running. System Data Engine: enabling tracing and statistics data
IBM Z Common Data Provider supports turning on trace for the Data Streamer while running. Enabling dynamic tracing for the Data Streamer
Table 2. December 2020: Summary of new features and related information
PTF Primary new features More information
Released in December 2020:
  • UJ04480
 New Currency support
  • MQ Currency: MQS 115 subtype 201 data streams
  • ICSF SMF records: SMF 82 data streams
  • zWIC data: SMF 98 subtype 1024 and 1025 data streams
  • CICS statistics records: SMF 110 subtype 2, 3, 4, and 5 data streams
  • CICS 5.6 Currency
  • SMF 50 (VTAM) Currency
  • RMF III Reports: STORC, STORF, and STORR
When you configure the System Data Engine, you can set the collect processing offset time on the OFFTIME clause of the COLLECT statement to specify how long to defer the System Data Engine data collection, and to make each System Data Engine start data collection at different times. By doing this you will be able to avoid CPU spike during peak time.
The data source type values for Splunk data streams can be customized in the Configuration Tool.  
RMF III data collection resume at ZCDP restart is supported.
Improvements on how you deploy and operate the Data Receiver.
Support sending the following data to Splunk via HEC:
  • CICS EYULOG
  • CICS MSGUSR
  • WebSphere SYSOUT
  • WebSphere SYSPRINT
  • WebSphere SYSPRINT in Distributed Format
  • WebSphere USS SYSOUT
  • WebSphere USS SYSPRINT
  • WebSphere USS SYSPRINT in Distributed Format
  • USS Syslogd
  • NetView Netlog
  • zSecure
  • Generic data streams
Provide a flowchart to help users with their troubleshooting process.
Security ciphers can be specified for the Configuration Tool server connections.
Table 3. June 2020: Summary of new features and related information
PTF Primary new features More information
Released in June 2020:
  • UJ03273
 The Log Forwarder can collect RMF Monitor III RMF_SPACEG, RMF_SYSSUM, and RMF_USAGE reports.
The System Data Engine can collect DFSMS Data Collection Facility (DCOLLECT) data.
The System Data Engine can collect SMF 119 subtype 94 - 98 records and SMF 123 subtype 1 records.
You can use the DEFINE TABLE statement in the System Date Engine language to define how to create a virtual table to connect multiple updates with the same attributes.
The readability of policies in the Configuration Tool is improved. In the Policy Profile Edit window, when you click a Subscriber node, all nodes and lines that are connected to this subscriber node are highlighted to show the data flow clearly.
Table 4. December 2019: Summary of new features and related information
PTF Primary new features More information
Released in December 2019:
  • UJ01485
 The Log Forwarder can collect RMF Monitor III DELAY, PROCU, and SYSINFO reports.
The IBM Z Common Data Provider can collect SMF 38 records and SMF 98 subtype 1 records.
Table 5. New features for IBM Z Common Data Provider Version 2.1.0
Primary new features More information
The Log Forwarder can collect RMF Monitor III CPC Capacity Report.

To do that, configure the RMF III Report data streams and grant the Log Forwarder user ID access to generate PassTicket when accessing the RMF Distributed Data Server (DDS). Then create a policy with the RMF_CPC data stream selected.
The IBM Z Common Data Provider can collect SMF 119 subtype 11 and subtype 12.
The System Data Engine zIIP offload function is improved.

The System Data Engine can now offload more work to zIIPs and at the same time reduce the additional overhead incurred.
The IBM Z Common Data Provider Buffered Splunk Ingestion App is compatible with Splunk Cloud.

With the Buffered Splunk Ingestion App installed in the Splunk Cloud environment, you can now send data to your Splunk Cloud instance via the Data Receiver.