SMF Express automated SMF data management on z/OS, including dumping, inventory, and retrieval. Its architecture likely included components for data extraction, transformation, and loading. These components communicated through internal APIs or message queues.
The product used configuration files to define parameters for data extraction and loading. It likely stored SMF data in sequential data sets or VSAM files. Given that SMF Express is no longer supported, consider alternatives.
IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics offers comprehensive log management and analytics. Splunk provides a versatile platform for analyzing machine data with a robust API for integration. Elasticsearch is another option for scalable search and analytics, exposing a REST API for data ingestion and querying.
These alternatives support various programming languages and SDKs for integration, using protocols like HTTP and TCP for communication. Migration involves exporting existing SMF data and configuring the new platform to ingest and process it. A key architectural difference is that modern platforms often use distributed architectures for scalability and resilience.