Editing Z/OS (section)

==== Operational data types ====
IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics collects and analyzes both structured and unstructured data, including the following types of operational data:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/z-logdata-analytics/5.1.0?topic=overview-z-common-data-provider |website=IBM |title=IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics documentation}}</ref>

* [[IBM System Management Facilities|System Management Facilities]] (SMF) data
* Log data from the following sources:
** Job log, the output which is written to a data definition (DD) by a running job
** z/OS UNIX log file, including the UNIX System Services system log (syslogd)
** Entry-sequenced Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM) cluster
** z/OS system log (SYSLOG)
** IBM Tivoli NetView for z/OS messages
** [[IBM WebSphere Application Server]] for z/OS High Performance Extensible Logging (HPEL) log
** z/OS Resource Measurement Facility (RMF) Monitor III reports
* User application data, the operational data from users' own applications

IBM Z Anomaly Analytics with Watson collects data from multiple IBM Z systems and subsystems, including [[IBM Db2]] for z/OS, IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS and [[IBM MQ]] for z/OS.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/z-anomaly-analytics/5.1.0 |website=IBM |title=IBM Z Anomaly Analytics with Watson documentation}}</ref> The following types of operational data are collected: 
* [[IBM System Management Facilities|System Management Facilities]] (SMF) data
* z/OS system log (SYSLOG)