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Include 45xx statistics records in the calculation of Average Checkpoint Duration, Average Checkpoint Frequency, and CPLOG count to the Checkpoint Summary portion of the Checkpoint Report.

IMS writes statistics records (45xx) at every checkpoint just before the checkpoint records (40xx). I would like to see something like this: Start 12Sep2024 00:00:37:75 IMS Performance Analyzer End 12Sep2024 00:01:53:25 Page 1 Checkpoint Summary ...
22 days ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 0 Under review

JSON support for IMS PA FP Region Occupancy report (FPRGORPT)

Provide functionality for the IMS Region Occupancy report (DD FPRGORPT), to make it possible to send output data to an analytics environment in a JSON format. This will simplify the follow up work for system administrators and also easier to find ...
over 1 year ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

JSON support for IMS PA DEDB Update Activity report (FPDBURPT)

Provide functionality for the IMS DEDB Update Activity report (DD FPDBURPT), to make it possible to send output data to an analytics environment in a JSON format. This will simplify the follow up work for system administrators and also easier to ...
over 1 year ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration