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Collecting Db2 Integrated Synchronization counters in IZDS

IBM Z Decision Support currently does not collect Db2 Integrated Synchronization IFCID 2 counters. In Db2 component table DB2_IDAA_STAT_S_H/D there is column REPLICATION_CPU, but is only populated with data for CDC replication. Since we have migra...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Not under consideration

Allow LIST RECORD consumption to be drifted to ZIIP processors.

Now, IZDS and IZPCA allow the derivation of a COLLECT to ZIIP, but it is not possible to do the same with a LIST RECORD.It would be good to study the possibility of adapting the LIST RECORD as well.
12 months ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Not under consideration

Enable the ability to run the COLLECT batch process of different components in parallel.

When a COLLECT process is executed, some DB2 resources are allocated that prevent processes that collect data for different components (CICS, DB2, MVS and so on) from being executed in parallel. If the COLLECT processes of different components cou...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Not under consideration

Having a report that can have a date selection and the MSU value in IGZS, which is close to the SCRT report.

Right now, we are comparing SCRT Report with IGZS Tables , but the values are not matching and not having option to go over date using KPMZLP05
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Not under consideration

Process SMF Type 23

I need to collect some metrics about SMF Logstreams activity. Could you please provide a component which process those records ?
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Not under consideration

CTG Explorer plugin - Provide interval statistics

Statistics values returned seemd to be all Lifetime and not Interval. When shooting a problem interval stats are probably the most important
almost 14 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 2 Not under consideration

Modify CICS transaction gateway to use more than a 10 character password when using TCP/IP

We have a application that connects to CICS TXSeries through CICS transaction gateway. The CTG does a ECI call when calling TXSeries from CTG. We need to pass password of 16 characters from CTG to TXSeries and teh field ECI-PASSWORD2 is being leve...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 2 Not under consideration

Delivery of an library CICS Transaction Gateway libcclaix.a 64 bits for AIX

Delivery of an library CICS Transaction Gateway libcclaix.a 64 bits for AIX.
almost 14 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 4 Not under consideration

Please add some kind of query to see about outstanding XA work.

I would like to be able to query the transaction gateway to see about outstanding XA units of work. While the current implementation of statistics does tell the number of outstanding XA units of work, there is no means to get information about the...
almost 14 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 2 Not under consideration

Provide startup statistics for TCP and SSL protocols

Please provide the startup values for the TCP and SSL protocol settings. Your currently provide the Bind addresses and ports, but do not provide the connecttimeout, idletimeout, ping frequency, dropworking or solinger values.
almost 14 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 2 Not under consideration