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Provide number of bytes transmitted at end of run

Many Splunk/Elastic users are sensitive to the number of bytes ingested. As part of the "End of File Record Counts", can you include total bytes sent if a TCP destination was used? Or even during an extract, as we sometimes run multiple trials run...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 5 Planned for future release

Allow applid and resource filtering against CICS PA HDBs

Currently the filtering capability against HDBs (both performance, stats and alerts) is in adequate. The first improvement can be made by allowing applid filtering against HDBs from ISPF option '6 - Statistics' . Then there are inconsistencies whe...
12 months ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

Provide ability to Include/Exclude/OMIT zOS Conn LIST report.

CICS PA zOS Connect LIST report helps to format individual records as such. Currently it reports 40+ Fields. Can we be provided with option to OMIT fields that we dont want in the report. Can we be provided with Filter option to INCLUDE / EXCLUE r...
about 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

Cluster level view of systems (for z/OS Connect)

For resiliency, best practice is to run multiple production z/OS Connect servers in a group and this must be managed as a single entity. To support this, we need an overall view of how this service (as a cluster) is performing, and the ability to ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Planned for future release

Capability to select specific IP address in batch

In order to have reports for specific server, It would be nice to be able to select an IP address (more than 8 characters) on a select/INC/EXC statement.
over 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

RKANDATV - permanent updates to KxxATR and KxxCAT members

Dear Sirs: RTE libs usually are placed on target volumes in our systems. These files should not be updated by the application after installation processs has been finished. To demarcate real RTE libs, log datasets and parm libs from each other we ...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Provide PMTU retransmits and errors at connect detail

Omegamon MFN provide stats on the stack workspace that shows both PMTU errors and retransmissions. On the connect detail there is no way to know if that connect had a PMTU error or retransmission. At the connect detail it will have the remote IP w...
over 9 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 3 Planned for future release

Multiple EXITs for Crypto on Omegamon xe for z/os

ICSF parms already have one exit coded in client environment.EXIT(CSFPCI,CSFEAPG,FAIL(NO)) monitor icsf crypto device needs coding KM5EXIT3 in the parm but this is not supported.
over 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Planned for future release