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IMS DB metrics support for anomaly detection

Add IMS DB metrics in Concert for Z, for anomaly detection using Machine Learning techniques
20 days ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

Concert for Z KPI for IMS

Would you add the following KPIs for IMS?Our customer is thinking to use IBM Concert for Z to detect the anomaly about the folloiwngs Response time for each IMS transaction Usage of buffer pool for each ones; DB buffer, PSB/DMB pool, DFSPOOL, ...
23 days ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

IBM Concert for Z Japanese panel support

Our customers want to have Japanese panels, such as report title, description, expert advice and help. Especially expert advice function is approved by many customers when they see the demo and they are also disappointed it is just in English only...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

Please add the batch program to send SMP/E information to IBM Concert for Z

Our customer wants to collect SMP/E information using the batch job to use IBM Concert for Z in the separate system from the target z/OS.
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

Please add the APAR list on APAR Management of IBM Concert for Z

Our customers want to have the panel for the followings. (1) HOLD Action description for the specific APAR (2) APAR lists which is required to apply by each LPAR To follow their current operation for APAR Management, they need these functions in a...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Planned for future release

Omegamon ATF Trace DDL - Column Names

IMS PA comes with Db2 DDL to use for loading Omegamon IMS ATF records, but the column names are very cryptic. Would be good to have more user friendly column names for easier understanding.
3 months ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Intellimagic support for x'45' records

Intellimagic requires IMS x'45' log records for some reporting. We currently use IMS PA to get the other records Intellimagic requires, would like to keep this all in one process and have IMS PA also provide the x'45' records.
3 months ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Stream DC Queue Manager Trace report in JSON format to Analytics platform

It would be great to get the DC Queue Manager Trace report directly in an analytics platform, as we already have the possibility to send Transaction Transit list report. The idea would be to stream the input messages (in a consolidated format) of ...
4 months ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Stream Deadlock reports in JSON format to Analytics platform

As of now, there is no way to stream deadlock reports in JSON to an analytics platform with IMS Performance Analyzer. It would be great to get the deadlock reports directly streamed to an analytics platform, as we already have the possibility to s...
5 months ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Provide SMF support for all IMS PA (streaming) services

It will make it safer to provide the possibility for (all) IMS PA reports to use SMF, both from an availability and security perspective, By having CDP (or other product) collect the data from SMF and pass it to the correct subscriber, will only n...
about 1 year ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 2 Future consideration