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IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics

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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.
5 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

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...
5 months 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 ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 2 Future consideration

IZPCA: New subtype record definition for SMF 119

Hello,related to TCP/IP for z/OS Component on IZPCA, we ask you the possibility to define new record for SMF 119 for following subtype:SMF 119_41 SMC-R link group statistics recordSMF 119_42 SMC-R link state start recordSMF 119_43 SMC-R link state...
8 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Cognos Monthly Reports Selection should be by Month not by any date in the month

The Cognos Monthly reports select is confusing and is not documented to the end user.
2 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

Provide comprehensive Documentation on how the Product works, such as a Redbook.

Presently the IzPCA documentation is mainly about how to install and run the software, or how to be a Capacity Planner, not how the product actually functions. Without comprehensive documentation, customers have to depend on the vendor for ongoing...
2 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 3 Future consideration

Add support for SMF 103 subtypes 13 and 14

We have IBM HTTP servers based on Apache software. They create SMF type 103 subtypes 13 and 14 records, but IZPCA does not support these record types.
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Provide TS7700 BVIR support

The latest VTS technology does not use SMF type94 records for VTS monitoring/performance. Instead, BVIR records exported from the clusters are extracted. Need to be able to load these records for VTS activity and other information.
8 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

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...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

Report on SMF 98 rcds.

SMF 98 rcd produces a 5 sec view of the CPC and its Lpars which is highly recommended by IBM and Peter Enrico for example for viewing CPU usage and other KPMs for assisting in debugging Performance Issues. Provides High Frequency throughput statis...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 2 Future consideration

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