Ironstream from Syncsort can do all of this work for you. It will handle all of the issues related to z/OS SMF records. It deals with the compression, the triplets, the binary data and converts the data from EBCDIC to ASCII. It does this very efficiently, even offloading a lot of the work to a zIIP engine in order to keep the MSU cost of this work to an absolute minimum. This is all done in real time to give you the best data latency possible while not impacting the existing workload on your system.
If you have other data sources like SYSLOG, Log4j or flat files, Ironstream can handle those as well.
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