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IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS

Universal filters for different charts and users

We need the ability to be able to save our filters and then use them in other charts and potentially share them with our other colleagues. For example: We create a filter to look at specific Disk PPRC Ports. We would like to be able to store that ...
10 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Under review

IntelliMagic Vision to support customer annotations on dashboards

When researching a problem using IntelliMagic Vision it would be great if we could add our own local annotations such as threshold lines or comments on a dashboard that provide added meaning or clarity specific to a customer
10 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Under review

Daily Intellimagic dashboard graphical heatmap format denoting any missing RMF/SMF data gaps for CEC, LPAR and subsystem components and also in detailed tabular engllsh text with root cause analysis and recommendations to mitigate

What is it useful? Mainframe Performance & Capacity Planning analysis utilizing Intellimagic presumes we have complete RMF/SMF data by CEC, LPAR and subsystem component. With very busy CEC, LPAR and subsystem components it's challenging to kno...
13 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Under review

Process and Report SMF 241 Records (HSM)

Hierarchical Storage Manager (HSM) generates SMF Type 241 records which contain detailed data about the migrations and recalls of datasets. In many environments, there is a large amount of HSM activity that contributes to the overall CPU utilizati...
about 1 month ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Under review

Add GFS/AFM as a supported TMS in Intellimagic Vision

Allow IBM IntelliMagic Vision to treat GFS/AFM as a supported TMS, providing operational, analytical, and historical views similar to those currently available for other tape management systems.
9 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Submitted

Automaticaly export custom dashboards through auto-saving or programable API

Users would like to export some custom dashboards from IntelliMagic in a dedicated repository and feed into other analytics solution for further processing with an automatic approach. Currently there are only download the dashboards manually or em...
18 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Under review

IntelliMagic Vision - Requesting cost basis analysis to justify acquiring additional zIIP engines when high zIPP fallback to CP is observed

IntelliMagic Vision can identify zIIP eligible workload that falls back to CP when zIPP engines are not available. This Idea furthers this support to forecast when it would be beneficial for a customer to acquire additional zIIP engines when suffi...
10 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Under review

Duplicate. Please close

Duplicate.. please close
10 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Not under consideration

IntelliMagic Vision to support custom thresholds and alert when a threshold is breached combined with machine learning

The Idea here is that not all workloads are equal and there is often a case to have local custom thresholds to denote what is an exception. One case example could be CICS transaction response times. It would be great if we could categorize CICS tr...
10 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Under review

Need R723MCDE field available in Vision reporting so people can more easily understand why a given report class exists

R723MCDE is a 32-character field in the IBM z/OS System Management Facility (SMF) records that contains the descriptive name for a Workload Manager (WLM) Service or Report Class. It explicitly appears in SMF Type 72 Subtype 3 records to help map p...
11 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Future consideration