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IBM Z Decision Support

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Support SMF123 subtype 2 V2 record layout

IBM z/OS Connect has recently improved their SMF123 records. We need IZDS to support their new record layouts. zOS Connect recently improved SMF details for API Requesters. SMF123-subtype 2-V2 is an additional new record layout. Here is a link to ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Planned for future release

zIIP usage of CICS transactions should be in the CICS component of TDS

For accounting reasons we need to know, how much time was used on a CP and on a special processor (zIIP) per CICS transaction. Cics Performance monitor shows this numbers by using the SMF 110 records USRCPUT and CPUTONCP respectively OFFLCPUT. TDS...
about 5 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Planned for future release

Completion of Encryption statistics from SMF113 into TDS/iZDS

We started the use of encryption, and we would complete the currently existing informations inside TDS Tables. We need to add the following fields coming from SMF133 subtype 1 CSType 3 :extended counters fom 64 to 127.This should give some materia...
about 5 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Planned for future release

Add DB2 zHyperlink fields from SMF

Please add zHyperlink SMF fields to the proper DB2 / D_DB2 / A_DB2 component tables.
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Planned for future release

Track availability for multi-LPAR subsystems

Please allow tracking for multi-LPAR subsystems other than SYSPLEX. As long as one member of a multi-system resource or subsystem is available, there was no outage.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Planned for future release

Use timezone offset already in SMF 110 records for CICS components

We would like an option to use the timezone offset already in the SMF 110 records, instead of the CICS_TIMEZONES lookup table to reduce the amount of wrong data collected during a time change and eliminate the need to monitor the offsets in the lo...
about 5 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Planned for future release

Time-based batch collect commit frequency

I would like to request an upper limit on the amount of (wall-clock/elapsed) time between commits when using the batch collector. Current commit frequency options are inadequate to prevent uncommitted UR problems, if a batch job is CPU-delayed, an...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 2 Planned for future release

Please replace SYSPLEX_NAME lookup table with SMF30SYP

The SYSPLEX lookup table is obsolete for tables that read from SMF type 30 records that already include the SMF30SYP field. It would be acceptable to us if the collect process read directly from this field where possible, or allow the collect jobs...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 2 Planned for future release

DB2 transaction CONNECT_NAME and CONNECT_SYS_TYPE

Please add to all tables that store DB2 transaction information in the "DB2" & "Analytics - DB2" components, columns for connection type and connection name, populated from SMF 101 record fields QWHCATYP and QWHCCN (respectively). We have cust...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Planned for future release

Getting LFAREA Statistics with TDS

As APAR OA48913 for RMF , could it be possible to map SMF 7x and create tables in order to collect information about large memory frames (LFAREA) usage. Is there any possibility to add some tables within the MVSPM component?
about 7 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Planned for future release

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