Case Study: U.S. State Agency achieves IRS Pub 1075 compliance and recovers millions with Precisely's Ironstream for Splunk

U.S. State Agency Solves IRS Pub 1075 Compliance Challenges with Ironstream for Splunk

U.S. State Agency was struggling to meet the IRS Pub 1075 "Tax Information Security Guidelines" while detecting and recovering fraudulent or erroneous unemployment benefit payments. Although the agency had deployed Splunk Enterprise for analytics, Splunk could not ingest native z/OS operational data—specifically SMF records 30, 80, and 102—leaving a critical gap for compliance and recovery; Splunk engaged Precisely for a mainframe data solution.

Precisely delivered Ironstream for Splunk to capture, transform, and forward z/OS SMF data into Splunk, closing the compliance and visibility gap. The Precisely solution enabled full IRS Pub 1075 reporting and more efficient recovery processes, allowing the agency to recover millions of dollars annually and paving the way for follow-on tax-recovery projects.