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IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics

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Add High Water Mark indicator of a Storage Group or a Volume in ZPCA tables

High Water Mark indicator will be useful for our stockage team to find out if a Storage Group or a Volume is big enough.
3 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

KPMZ_WORKLOAD_T: fields related number of transactions and the response time when HPDBAT is active (OA62758)

Hi all,we work with IZPCA table named KPMZ_WORKLOAD_T to execute analysis on performance at service class level.When HPDBAT is active on DB2 of our systems, fields TRANSACTION and TRAN_ELAPSED_SEC show us misleading informations.On OA61811 (https:...
9 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Enhance the Reporting on DASD Volumes such that not all are reported on as MOD9s

Use the number of cylinders per Dasd volume to denote if a MOD27 or MOD54 rather then denoting all volumes as MOD9s.
5 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Modify the Access Requirements to Install and Support the Software to minimum Level Required Rather then SYSADM.

SYSADM access is too broad for an Application to need. This will allow for better usage and support then having to hand off tasks between areas for installs, adding components and maintenance.
11 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

DBCS support for IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics

IZDS V1.9 provides Japanese panel and report samples. Please add the same support for IZPCA V3.1.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Accurately normalize CPUsec reporting in the RAF component

CPUsec reporting in the Resource Accounting Feature does not differentiate between GCP and zIIP processors. For customers that run zIIP processors in their environment, RAF records CPUsec equally, regardless of processor type, and RAF only applies...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Make IZPCA RMM and SMS reports accurate across a Sysplex

Make IZPCA RMMand SMS reports accurate across a Sysplex
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Remove the requirement of Db2 SYSADM authority to access the IZPCA panels to perform specific functions.

DB2 SYSADM is the highest level of administrative authority at a DB2 subsystem level. Users with SYSADM authority can run some utilities and issue some database and database manager commands within the instance. A user with SYSADM authority can gr...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Remove DB2ADM Requirement for Install & Support

DB2ADM access is too board for the shop. No one in the company has this access. The product should be able to be supported by application teams.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Make additional Interpolation algorithms available to Fractal Forecasting

Make additional Interpolation algorithms available to Fractal Forecasting. Mark this one as important to the customer.Add additional interpolation algorithms - LINEAR, POLY2, and POLY3 – same as we do for SmartPath forecasting.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release