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    Add SMF123S1_REQ_TIMED_OUT to table MVS_ZCONNECT_%

    Please keep track of the number of API timeouts using field SMF123S1_REQ_TIMED_OUT field in the SMF 123.1V2 record request section for API provider stats and add corresponding fields to all of the MVS_ZCONNECT_% tables. There is no way to monitor ...
    5 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

    Document the BXH/BXLE/JXH/JXLE trick

    An article in either the systems journal or the journal of RF&D described using BXH and BXLE to test 30 bits in succession. This trick is still valid and extends to 62 consecutive tests in AMODE64. It would be useful to have it in either the e...
    9 days ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 1 Submitted

    Add QBACGET to all DB2 package tables

    Please add a field to all the DB2 package tables for get page count from field QBACGET in the SMF 101 records. Monitoring this field is very important to determine per-package behavior and is extremely useful in determining performance issues at t...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

    Enhance reporting for IDAA (IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator) to assist with Capacity Planning and Performance Analysis

    Currently the reporting in IZPCA for the IDAA is very limited. Having better reports for CPU, memory, storage etc. will assist us and other IDAA customers to perform Capacity Planning and Performance Analysis. We have a requirement to perform Capa...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

    Password spray alerts various sources

    zSecure Alert is uniquely equipped to capture events and circumstances at near real-time and can serve as an early alert for such incidents as password spraying from external sources. The identification of an attack from external sources (SSH and ...
    2 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 0 Under review

    Create delta version of table DB2_BPATTR_SHR_T and DB2_BP_SHARING_T

    DB2 tables DB2_BPATTR_SHR_T and DB2_BP_SHARING_T (global buffer pool) read SMF100 and fiels are incremental. Create tables with fields not incremental (delta values) will help the usability of statistics. The same approach is already available for...
    3 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

    For any incoming IMS Connect transaction: Extract user ID in USERDATA field for a specific IMS transaction profile in RACF(TIMS), and replace original user ID?

    For any incoming IMS Connect transaction: Extract user ID in USERDATA field for a specific IMS transaction profile in RACF(TIMS), and replace original user ID. user ID in USERDATA will be propagated as OMSECUID in IMS Connect. Business reaso...
    4 months ago in IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Under review

    Enhancement for IzPCA to use a feed from zVM Performance Data Pump

    We are starting to look at using IzPCA but having to setup hourly feeds from Performance Toolkit is time consuming and requires extra code to make this work, feeding the data from Data Pump seems the more logical way to do this.
    4 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

    DB2 programs that run under the TSO batch IKJEFT01

    To plan CPU/MSU consumption for batch programs, we use reports that utilize data from SMF_30, whose source is the EXEC PGM= card. Since we are executing DB2 batch programs under TSO, the program that actually executed the program does not appear i...
    4 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

    Fix HLASM line continuation detection issue in MortgageApplication sample shipped with DBB

    The HLASM parser fails to correctly capture the line continuation when using IBM Z Open Editor to view the epsmort.bms file (lines 24-27) of the MortgageApplication sample shipped with DBB, and marks it as a code warning. See lines 24-28 of the at...
    4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 0 Planned for future release

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