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IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS

There is a requirement for both monthly or comparing two different days to understand which CEC, LPAR or Service Class workloads is driving the increased or decreased CPU, MIPS or MSU consumption

Why is it useful? Currently we manually program & report two different periods to understand which detailed level of workload is driving the increase or decrease that takes time. Intellimagic having this very important, common and repeatable ...
3 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Submitted

Capture QJSTCDDS for CDDS

  Capture  QJSTCDDS                    TOTAL NUMBER OF CDDS ACCESS REQUESTSto measure CPU saving   on  CDDS  -DB2 
3 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Submitted

Intellimagic with AI to report on Application online and NSPs with Application Transaction SLO/SLA maximum TPS and determine response time to understand if knee of curve regarding when degraded response time kicks inefore in on Ap

Why is it useful? Determine whether degraded response time occurs before or beyond SLO/SLA maximum TPS limit Who would benefit from it? All Mainframe Intellimagic customers How should it work? Also include maximum reported TPS with response time t...
4 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Submitted

Mapping detailed BU & Application breakdown and when comparing baseline to new changing patterns utilize AI included with Intellimagic to report, analyze and determine RCA for significant variation & Response time latency implications

Why is it useful? Mainframe running high volume & complex applications, mixed workloads across multiple subsystem that with Intellimagic can focus on one subsystem component to report, analyze and drill-down. However, with Intellimagic AI comp...
4 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Submitted

IntelliMagic Vision should support exporting Topology metrics in other formats

IntelliMagic Vision should support exporting Topology metrics in other formats such as CSV, JSON or xml such that these metrics can be imported into other tools
10 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Submitted

IntelliMagic Vision should support async/run in background reporting

Requsting a batch/async interface to using IntelliMagic ? I’m tired of watching the wheel spin for larger requests and would like these to be run in the background and not freeze up my active IntelliMagic session
10 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Submitted

IntelliMagic Vision to support non SMF datasources and report out

IntelliMagic Vision to support non SMF datasources and report out, an example here would be WAS/Liberty JVM PMI metrics that are not today captured under SMF. Omegamon collects these. IntelliMagic Vision should be able to harvest these from ODP.
10 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Submitted

IntelliMagic Vision to support CICS Loader End of Day stats

CICS Statistics ID (ID 25 – CICS Loader Statistics) should be supported to determine how many times a CICS region has loaded a program
10 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Submitted

IntelliMagic Vision to support SMF 120.20 records

These are needed for shops that run WAS Compute Grid to analyze JVM batch activity
10 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Submitted

IntelliMagic Vision to provide option under User Settings/Preferences not to remember the last Selection criteria

Let's say I run a report from a month ago and then exit IntelliMagic. Next time I run another report I may not want the same date range applying to my new report. Instead I may want current day. This should be an option under User Settings/Prefere...
10 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Submitted