Introduction The IBM mainframe is a mature computing environment. This business machine first appeared in the 1960s and has evolved over the decades into a rock-solid, powerful, and feature-rich platform ready for the latest technologies like Cloud, Mobile and DevOps. It is going to play a crucial role in developing areas like Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence (AI), & Machine Learning (ML). Alongside these great technologies, a mainframe can also generate activity logs that record what is happening with both hardware and software resources. This information can be used to discover a wealth of information from status, to trends, to fault diagnosis – things that can be of vital importance for monitoring the health of business-critical systems. On the face of it this sounds great. However,

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