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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 ...
5 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

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Under review

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

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.
9 months ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Submitted

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

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

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...
over 6 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

Add new fields or change data type of fields that are in STCKE format to something more consumable

Fields TIME_ZC_ENTRY, TIME_ZC_EXIT, TIME_SOR_SENT, TIME_SOR_RECV were recently added to the ZDS tables for SMF record type 123 (PTF UI82260). The STCKE (CHAR(16)) format is difficult to work with and convert to a GMT or local time in Db2 queries. ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Future consideration