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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...
4 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 8 Under review

Native GitLab Runner for z/OS security

The security concepts of GitLab runners are mainly intended for distributed environments owned by a single application. With the introduction of the GitLab Runner for z/OS, which is a system shared by hundreds of users and applications, a new secu...

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...
9 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

Support for Endevor Processor Group Steps with SYSTSPRT/SYSTSIN Allocation via Execute Package Command

In the IBM Developer for z/OS (IDz) CARMA Endevor integration, CA Endevor® processor group steps that allocate SYSTSPRT or SYSTSIN datasets currently fail with allocation errors when executed in foreground mode or through the execute package comma...
about 1 month ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 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

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 ...
11 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Under review

Support AMODE64 MQI calls from PL/I applications

Hello IBM, AMODE64 MQI calls from PL/I applications is currently not officially supported by IBM. However, 64-bits support already exist for C applications.Adding support for PL/I only requires simple updates to the CMQEPP copybook. Here is an exa...
3 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Reduce the amount of storage used by the JSONGet functions

We see high cpu from LE 'Get a stack' from build in PL/1 JSONGet functions like JsonGetValue. Please reduce the stack used storage in the JSONGet functions.
3 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Create 15 minute interval summary tables for all CICS & DB2 accounting related tables

There are no Timestamp ( _T) tables. Currently all of these tables start with the _H level which are summarized to the hour. So need a _T table equivalents.
8 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 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.
5 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Under review