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IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics

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SCRT should be changed to honor AbsoluteGroupCapping / AbsoluteCapping setup on the HMC

We've licenced HW TFP. To prohibit to peak into the TFP corridor, we set up AbsoluteGroupCapping on the HMC for a Capacity Group that includes all LPARs on the CEC to limit the number of CPs used. This was fine for 3 months. Afterwards we recogniz...
10 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

Please improve IZPCA Cognos framework to allow selection of PLEX wide aggregation metrics instead of unique LPAR/Server mode

Please improve IZPCA Cognos framework to allow selection of PLEX wide aggregation metrics instead of unique LPAR/Server mode The IZPCA Cognos framework do not work well for PLEXable components/environments. Our users would like a way to summarize ...
10 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

We need the record definition and the table for smf type 87.

We need SMF TYPE 87 record data to keep a track on conversion from RESERVE to GLOBAL ENQ. This is a key metrics and we would like this to be the part of healthcheck dashboard. This is also recommended by IBM and we need this to be part of IzPCA
11 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

Add collection for SMF88 subclass 1 and 11.

Define a new tables that will maintain SMF 88 subtype 1,11 for logstream performance.
12 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

Move the IMS structures above the bar, 64-bit memory

As machines get bigger and faster, they process more IMS transactions per second and we need more storage to process this. We have run out of 31-bit storage. We'd like to move the IMS structures above the bar, 64-bit memory.
25 days 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.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

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.
6 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 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 ...
10 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 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 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 2 Future consideration

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