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IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics

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IzPCA report showing invokers of a given stored procedure

Application teams sometimes need information related to the invokers of a DB2 stored procedure, so we would like to see if IzPCA could provide the list of users ( DB2 authids) that invoke a stored procedure. That is, a report showing a list of DB2...
2 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

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 ...
17 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

IMS Component partitioned by IMS_REGION

Currently we have many IMS regions and huge logs to be processed. It would be great if IZPCA provides a solution that we could process IMS logs in parallel with a entire IMS component petitioned by IMS_REGION.
18 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

Delta IDAA tables for SMF interval DB2 statistics

On IZPCA there is activity of delta tables ( D_DB2_BUFF_POOL_% - D_DB2_SYSTEM_% ...) these work using record procedure DRLSD64D for DB2 statistics records, that calculates the delta values for the fields. There is also an existing mapping for RECO...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

Modification of the KPMZ_CPUMF* table's TIME column definition

KPMZ_CPUMF* tables, derived from SMF 113, have a TIME column corresponding to the time of writing the SMF Record (End of interval), unlike any tables from the SMF7x Records (Example : KPMZ_LPAR_T) where the TIME column corresponds to the time of b...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

Integration in the SMF_099 record definition (SRM/WLM) of information related to SubType 14 (HiperDispatch Topology) and load them in a new KPMZ table

Integration in the SMF_099 record definition (SRM/WLM) of information related to SubType 14 (HiperDispatch Topology). This will let us get information on the processor Topology of each LPAR and their evolution to better follow & understand var...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

Integration in the SMF_100_1_X record definition of information related to IFCID 369 and load them in a new D_KPM_DB2_% table

Integration in the SMF_100_1_X record definition (Record DB2 with deltas calculation via DRLSD64D program) of information related to IFCID 369 (Aggregated Accounting Statistics). This will let us get accounting information aggregated from the SMF ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

New tables KPMZ_CPUMF1_LP_T & KPMZ_CPUMFM1_LP_T

Create KPMZ_CPUMF1_LP_T & KPMZ_CPUMF1_LP_T respectively similar to KPMZ_CPUMF1_T & KPMZ_CPUMFM1_T tables but including LP number in key
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Needs more information

New table KPMZ_LPAR_LP_%

Create KPMZ_LPAR_LP_% similar to KPMZ_LPAR_% table but including LP number in key
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Needs more information

Provide an option at the time of installing a component to not install tables where no reports are provided in the product.

When a component is installed give the customers the option to not install tables with no real usage or reporting built into the software and add to the documentation that these tables are just "nice to haves".
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration