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IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics

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Enable zEDC compression support in the SMF Extractor of ZPCA

It would be usefull an enhancement for Z Performance and Capacity Analytics (ZPCA) to support native zEDC compression within the SMF Extractor, similar to the compression available when SMF compress records before writting to the logstream (SMFPRM...
5 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

Report that analyzes the behavior of CICS Workload when changing from one LPAR A to another LPAR B (with different capacity) and if this LPAR B supports this new workload (if the LPAR B does not support it, the report should indicate what changes need to be made to the LPAR B to support the CICS Workload)

We received this request from management because it would help in evaluating the renewal of the contract with IBM.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Make the CICS_FIELD procedure automated to include new OFFSETs to the CICS-FIELD table

When a CICS new Release is released by IBM, the IZPCA users have to update the CICS_FIELD Table executing a manual process. This is an error prone procedure; thus, we suggest the IZPCA development to adjust it to a safer process to be executed by ...
7 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Submitted

Be able to use ZIIP feature with Log Data Manager.

IZPCA Log Data Manager feature is an ISPF/TSO application which needs to be coded in a special way in order to allow the caller environment to use Ziip processors. To avoid this inconvenience BATCH environment calling DRLPLC should be used instead...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Create a solution on IZPCA to support multiple customers with the same MVS_SYSTEM_ID

This idea will be a great improvement in the architecture of IZPCA to be able the new scenario of zCloud. Kyndryl is supporting customer in zCloud and the IZPCA must be installed to support all these customers in a shared DB in zCloud. To support ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 2 Future consideration

Create a table that presents the value of MSUs consumed exactly equal to field N7 of the SCRT

Field N7 of the SCRT presents the number of MSUs consumed per LPAR that will be paid to IBM under the TFP contract. In order to better price products and anticipate the amount to be paid, we need to know the quantity of MSUs consumed to carry out ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

Include SMF 98 subtype 1 in SMF Record Definition available

SMF 98 subtype 1 contains information about spin locks. This could help identify potential situations to reduce CPU Consuption that could be avoided
7 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Submitted

Please improve IZPCA CP Cognos Reports for large z/OS environments

The IZPCA Cognos CP reports generally do not work well for a large zSeries environment. We had a meeting with you and demonstrated areas for improvement. Here are a couple of the key areas: Include an option to select the CEC names in CEC level re...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

Create 15 minute interval summary tables for all CICS & DB2 accounting related tables

There are no Timestamp ( _T) tables. Currently all of these tables start with the _H level which are summarized to the hour. So need a _T table equivalents.
4 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

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.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release