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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
    24 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, ...
    27 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

    Correlate the PST processing the request with QUERY ODBM TYPE(THREAD) information in IMS to identify and kill the concerned long running threads and regions.

    This is very useful to identify and kill the inefficient and long running IMS SQLs. At the moment we cannot correlate between the ODBM threads and processing region (DBT) on IMS side. There could be queries that could run longer and do not fill th...
    over 1 year ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Future consideration

    Allow ODBM synchronous data capture using third party exits

    Today we are using the Precisely SQD product for IMS data capture replication. It captures changes and writes them to its own log stream (Synchronously, no IMS log records), then processes them after that (Asynchronously). They get control at the ...
    over 2 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Future consideration

    An enhancement to the IMS Universal Drivers and Open Database Manager to allow for batching IMS segment data for the keyed segment and all of its dependent/child segments

    Currently the JDBC driver allows for batching off a specific SSA list. Our application requires a way to fetch segments of varying parentage that do not conform to a single SSA. For example, We have a three level hierarchy of SEGMENT1, SEGMENT2, A...
    about 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Future consideration

    Invalidate GUR cache / update SQL metadata

    IMS caches DBD and PSB metadata for IMS applications and JDBC based tools using SQL access to IMS databases in the so called GUR cache. There are situations in which an invalidation of this cache would be helpful like situations in which DBD metad...
    over 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Future consideration

    Retrieve multiple IMS segments in a single JDBC Call to reduce network trips.

    getUniqueDBRecord JDBC call which is able to get a root and multiple children segment types. GetUniqueDBRecord with [String: segment, String: parent, String: ssa, integer: limit, …] getUniqueDBRecord([“ROOT”, “”, ssaRoot, 1, “KID1”, “ROOT”, “”, 1,...
    over 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 4 Not under consideration

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