Methods and apparatus for selective capture of mainframe operating system records

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising code which, when

• executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
• instantiate in a memory operatively coupled to the processor, a control data structure including a set of predetermined criteria specifying whether or not a system measurement facility (SMF) field value is designated to be flattened based on a SMF field-type identifier associated with that SMF field value;
• instantiate in the memory, a flattener data structure including a set of SMF record-type identifiers, each SMF record-type identifier from the set of SMF record-type identifiers is linked to at least one SMF field-type identifier, each of the at least one SMF field-type identifier being logically related to flattening code snippet;
• receive a collected set of SMF data, the collected set of SMF data associated with a mainframe operating system, the collected set of SMF data received at a rate that, on aggregate, the SMF data is produced by the mainframe operating system, each record from the collected set of SMF data having a record-type identifier and containing a plurality of SMF field values, each SMF field value from the plurality of SMF field values associated with a SMF field-type identifier;
• select a set of SMF field values from the collected set of SMF data, the set of SMF field values selected based on the set of predetermined criteria included in the control data structure;
• execute, for each SMF field value from the set of SMF field values, at least one flattening code snippet from the flattener data structure to produce a flattened record that includes at least one flattened SMF field value converted into a target format;
• and
• insert the flattened record into a data repository compatible with the target format.

An apparatus, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory storing code which, when executed by the processor, causes the processors to:
• instantiate a control data structure and a flattening data structure, the control data structure and the flattening data structure linked to one another via a composite field, the composite field includes a system measurement facility (SMF) record-type identifier and a SMF field-type identifier;
• receive a collected set of SMF data associated with a mainframe operating system, the collected set of SMF data received at a rate that, on aggregate, the SMF data is produced by the mainframe operating system, each record from the collected set of SMF data having a record-type identifier and containing a plurality of SMF field values, each SMF field value from the plurality of SMF field values associated with a SMF field-type identifier;
• select a set of SMF field values from the collected set of SMF data, the set of SMF field values selected based on a predetermined criteria configured in the control data structure;
• execute, for each SMF field value from the set of SMF field values, a flattening process to produce a flattened record with set of SMF field values converted to a target format;
• and
• send the flattened record to a compute device.