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IZPCA / COGNOS NEW COST REPORTS TFP WITH MONETARY VALUES BASED IN MSU

Many customers wants to know how much money they are paying by LPAR, WORKLOAD and SERVICE/REPORT CLASS using TFP – Tailored Fit Pricing model. Nowadays, IZPCA/COGNOS has cost RESOURCE ACCOUNTING reports based in monetary values (cost of CPU second...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 8 Under review

Enable zEDC compression support in the SMF Extractor of ZPCA

It would be usefull an enhancement for Z Performance and Capacity Analytics (ZPCA) to support native zEDC compression within the SMF Extractor, similar to the compression available when SMF compress records before writting to the logstream (SMFPRM...
7 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

Storage occupancy as Average storage for history

The customer spoke about Storage occupancy for a task as a large number, but this is a function of the time as well as storage used. For history, this might be better represented as an Average storage used. This is not possible for an active task.
7 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / All components 0 Under review

Add certificate value to TCPIPS display

The customer would like us to show the Certificate for any TCPIPs that is using one. This will need a new attribute and as such a FixPack, but it is a manageable enhancement which would likely be accepted.
7 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / All components 0 Under review

Direct Commands to Resource Workspaces

Since TOM has command line, it would be beneficial to navigate to specific resource workspace for desired region (for example command “TCPIP CICD5501” would navigate to TCPIP Service Overview workspace for region CICD5501).
7 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / All components 0 Under review

Allow Bookmarks for region level workspaces

Currently TOM bookmarking feature are only available for the workspaces of the CICSplex level. The problem with region level workspace bookmarking is possibility that target workspace may have bookmarked region, which is offline, which would end u...
7 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / All components 0 Under review

Bookmarking capability for ICEs workspace

Make Interval Control Elements workspace KCPICES available for TOM bookmarking feature.
7 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / All components 0 Under review

Multi region Take Actions – Task History Pause/Resume

For RTEs with many CICS regions multi-region control like RLIM activation is beneficial. Other areas could use same approach - for example Task History Pause/Resume.
7 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / All components 0 Under review

Make the CICS_FIELD procedure automated to include new OFFSETs to the CICS-FIELD table

When a CICS new Release is released by IBM, the IZPCA users have to update the CICS_FIELD Table executing a manual process. This is an error prone procedure; thus, we suggest the IZPCA development to adjust it to a safer process to be executed by ...
8 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Under review

Add Record definition for SMF 49 sub-type 9

Add Record definition for SMF 49 sub-type 9 and even better : tables exploiting those records.
2 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review