Data source types

The configuration artifacts that are provided with each z/OS® Insight Pack include data source types. A log file splitter, a log record annotator, and a collection are provided for each type of data source.

Log file splitters

The log file splitters break up data into records.

Log record annotators

The annotators annotate fields in the log records so that the records can be more easily searched. Each field corresponds to part of a log record. The fields are defined in the index configuration file, and each field is assigned index configuration attributes.

The annotated fields are displayed in the IBM® Operations Analytics - Log Analysis Search workspace and can be used to filter or search the log records.

Collections

In IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis, a collection is a method for organizing data sources of the same type. For example, you might want to assign all the data sources for a WebSphere® Application Server cluster to a single collection so that you can search them as a group.

If you want to organize z/OS data sources of the same source type into one collection, you can either create one or more collections of your own, or use the collections that are predefined in the z/OS Insight Packs for each data source type.