What we were actually trying to look at was standing up a forwarding Agent on z/OS (not zLinux), and how we would go about that. Anything else is imperfect at best for a long term solution. Mounting what is needed via NFS is not really a feasible or timely solution. Thats a project in and of itself, as our z/OS OS team isn't where they need to be to even begin that process, there is network firewall issues. Basically, we are talking atleast 3-6 months, and multiple teams involved.
But perhaps if you could enlighten me, who has worked on z/OS platform for 24+ years, primarily as a Sysprog, but also as WAS admin/support (since its been on the platform), USS admin etc, how we can "Send the data over syslog to Splunk directly " because that makes no technical sense to me, or how we can "open a simple tcp socket and simply send the data to Splunk this way, probably a socket specifically configured to accept and split your data format " without writing code.
Our hopes were that there was a forwarding agent binaries for execution on z/OS directly, or in USS of z/OS. Barring that, was attempting to get agent source and compile it to run in either. Without that, it means the creation of something, be it our own version of a forwarding agent, or some transfer agent to a forwarding agent.
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