System requirements

Ensure that your environment meets the system requirements for IBM® Operations Analytics for z Systems, which include the system requirements for IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis and the z/OS® Log Forwarder.

Log Analysis requirements

For information about the system requirements for Log Analysis, see the Log Analysis documentation.

Restriction: If you deploy on Linux for System z®, you can use the IBM InfoSphere® BigInsights™ Hadoop service, but at this time, the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) must be installed on an x86 Linux system.