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IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS

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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 ...
4 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...
4 months ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

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.
about 2 months ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

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.
2 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

Need to increase the size of the formatted columns from the existing limit of 6 to something much greater such as 15 or user defined

Today when create a report for things such as TOTAL DL/I calls over a several hour period the column is returned in scientific format if the return value exceeds 6 digits.For example, returned as: 4.4228E+08. This makes reading the report via diff...
9 months ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / All components 1 Future consideration

Include 45xx statistics records in the calculation of Average Checkpoint Duration, Average Checkpoint Frequency, and CPLOG count to the Checkpoint Summary portion of the Checkpoint Report.

IMS writes statistics records (45xx) at every checkpoint just before the checkpoint records (40xx). I would like to see something like this: Start 12Sep2024 00:00:37:75 IMS Performance Analyzer End 12Sep2024 00:01:53:25 Page 1 Checkpoint Summary ...
about 1 year ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

JSON support for IMS PA FP Region Occupancy report (FPRGORPT)

Provide functionality for the IMS Region Occupancy report (DD FPRGORPT), to make it possible to send output data to an analytics environment in a JSON format. This will simplify the follow up work for system administrators and also easier to find ...
over 2 years ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

JSON support for IMS PA DEDB Update Activity report (FPDBURPT)

Provide functionality for the IMS DEDB Update Activity report (DD FPDBURPT), to make it possible to send output data to an analytics environment in a JSON format. This will simplify the follow up work for system administrators and also easier to ...
over 2 years ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration