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IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS

Detecting inoperable subsystem to be decommissioned ( middleware CICS , DB2 , MQ , IMS )

In Health Exceptions, enable a "bottom line" parameter , in opposite to threshold, to filter out low or no activity in metrics indicators like paging , CPU consuming and virtual memory usage. If this behavior persists in a time period is a candida...
6 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Under review

MQ page sets statisrics

IM is missing very useful page sets statistics ( SMF 115 subtype 201) https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.4.x?topic=statistics-data-manager-page-set-data-records
about 1 month ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Future consideration

CICS/MQ statistics

Could you provide CICS/MQ statistics reporting in the IM. MQ connection statistics The above is mapped by the DSECT DFHMQGDS (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/6.x?topic=statistics-mq-connection).
about 1 month ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Future consideration

Disambiguate DB2 Members Across Sysplexes in Health Insights Filters

Current Challenge: IntelliMagic DB2 Health Insights, Sections (Health Exceptions / Db2 ) report (e.g., reports like BP Health, GBP Health, etc.) currently do not identify the Sysplex/System from which a Db2 Data Sharing Group or standalone Db2 mem...
7 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Future consideration

SQL Database Backup via Vision Automator

Please add the option to schedule an automatic SQL Database backup on the SQL server from the Vision Automator server.
2 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Under review

IntelliMagic for z/OS Storage / DSS Replication / Add a group nickname to identify specific Link-IDs of a DSS

I would like to have the option, to set a group nickname in the sharedcfg.txt for the replication links of each DSS. This would make the replication behaviour more transparent, because you see, which Link-IDs belong together for a specific replica...
6 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Under review

Change decimal and thousands separators

For us in BE the standard decimal separator character is "," and for thousands it's "." As it is the other way around in IntelliMagic, it makes it more difficult for us to import exported csv data to excel. It would be very useful as this is the d...
9 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Under review

Adding missed out SMF 123 fields to the intellimagic for z/OS connect

z/OS connect APIs are designed to include correlation id in the API request header for end-to-end tracking. Server config has audit interceptor coded with the header name to capture it in the SMF. Also, ZOS connect istelf is creating request Id to...
28 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Future consideration

Allow selective EXPORT of reports from a Dashboard

Currently there is no ability in a Dashboard to select reports(s) that are to be EXPORTed. It is either an all or nothing approach. I have built a dashboard that has 28 reports and would like to only 4 of these reports via a Scheduled Export to ou...
7 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Under review

We'd like Intellimagic to process details on MQ channels

Process SMF 116 subtype 10 MQ Channel accounting records Currently Intellimagic only processes SMF 116 subtype 0,1,2. The MP1B tool currently supports all subtypes.
9 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Future consideration