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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 ...
8 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...
8 months ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

IMS Catalog utility FABXCATM has no exclude option during DECODE IMS DBD or PSB Source

FABXCATM is only allow wild card option to DECODE DBD and PSB from IMS catalog and cannot exclude specific member level option. Please add this new function.
16 days ago in IMS Library Integrity Utilities for z/OS  / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Use colon between ISO time fields instead of period

ISO Time fields in IMS Performance Analyzer are currently output as yyyy-mm-dd-hh.mm.ss.thmiju. Some data analytics platforms had issues ingesting that field as-is due to the period '.' between hh, mm and ss. These platforms expect colon between ...
about 2 months ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Under review

No hyphen between date and time in ISO time fields in CSV output

ISO Time fields in IMS Performance Analyzer are currently output as yyyy-mm-dd-hh.mm.ss.thmiju. The hyphen between the date and time caused issues ingesting the field as-is into some analytics engines. We're asking for an option to be able to rem...
about 2 months ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Under review

Collecting Db2 Integrated Synchronization counters in IZDS

IBM Z Decision Support currently does not collect Db2 Integrated Synchronization IFCID 2 counters. In Db2 component table DB2_IDAA_STAT_S_H/D there is column REPLICATION_CPU, but is only populated with data for CDC replication. Since we have migra...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Not under 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...
over 1 year ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

Allow LIST RECORD consumption to be drifted to ZIIP processors.

Now, IZDS and IZPCA allow the derivation of a COLLECT to ZIIP, but it is not possible to do the same with a LIST RECORD.It would be good to study the possibility of adapting the LIST RECORD as well.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Not under consideration

zIIP usage of CICS transactions should be in the CICS component of TDS

For accounting reasons we need to know, how much time was used on a CP and on a special processor (zIIP) per CICS transaction. Cics Performance monitor shows this numbers by using the SMF 110 records USRCPUT and CPUTONCP respectively OFFLCPUT. TDS...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Planned for future release

Support SMF123 subtype 2 V2 record layout

IBM z/OS Connect has recently improved their SMF123 records. We need IZDS to support their new record layouts. zOS Connect recently improved SMF details for API Requesters. SMF123-subtype 2-V2 is an additional new record layout. Here is a link to ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Planned for future release