I have a program which collects a TCPIP packet trace on z/OS and creates a file which can be read by Wireshark on a work station.

(Wireshark display the traffic in a GUI, and interprets fields, etc.  So can sort, filter, extract etc.   It is THE packet Analyzer).

This has several advantages,

• it is easy to collect, you do not need to do a CTRACE, and use IPCS.
• you can use wireshark to decode the TLS handshake, and look at the flows.  (Ive already found this useful)
• You can use the wireshark  smarts to plot statistics ( eg buffer size over time) etc about the flow of traffic, all the good stuff you get as standard in Wireshark.

I'm thinking of making it available through a github site.

Question:  Is there any reason why I should not make this generally available?
It uses documented interfaces, so anyone could have done it.

Feel free to contact me offline.

Colin