IBM Z Common Data Provider with Apache Kafka
The IBM Z® Common Data Provider provides the infrastructure for accessing IT operational data from z/OS® systems and streaming it to the analytics platform in a consumable format. It is a single data provider for sources of both structured and unstructured data, and it can provide a near real-time data feed of z/OS operational data, such as System Management Facilities (SMF) data, OMEGAMON® data, and z/OS log data to your analytics platform.
The IBM Z Common Data Provider component delivers the following benefits:
- Near real time accessibility
- Largest breadth of data supported including all standard IBM® SMF types, OMEGAMON, IMS log, DCOLLECT, RMF III, and various log types.
- Cost and ingestion savings
- Enhanced data filtering through field and record level filtering enables you to build curated data streams to stream exactly what you want.
- Flexible AIOps infrastructure
- Build your analytics ecosystem by collecting data once and streaming to multiple targets leveraging the enhanced Kafka ecosystem.
- Strategic integrations
- Feed critical Z data to industry leading observability and log analytics platforms, such as the IBM Z Data Analytics Platform, Instana®, Splunk, and Elastic.