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Prompt for a formula field should include field description.

When using the Statistics Alert Definition panel to enter a new alert, the prompt key (PF4) allows you to see and select the field name. After selecting the field, only the field name is added to the panel. It would be nice if the field descriptio...
about 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Include IBM Service Management Unite in Z Development and Test Environment

I work as z/OS System Adminsitrator and have a Z Development and Test Environment Personal Edition lencese. I use Z Development and Test Environment Personal edition to stay up to date on new software. As IBM Service Management Unite is a fr...
9 months ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Under review

CICS PA SIIS Usage removal

Hello, For an Healthcheck study, we were investigating SIIS activity in our systems. You can see IBM documentation realted to SIIS from the links given below. We realized that while CICSPA batch jobs were running the SIIS indicator exceed %10 whic...
over 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Provide number of bytes transmitted at end of run

Many Splunk/Elastic users are sensitive to the number of bytes ingested. As part of the "End of File Record Counts", can you include total bytes sent if a TCP destination was used? Or even during an extract, as we sometimes run multiple trials run...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 5 Planned for future release

We need a count of totals number of Program LINKS to a program, total Program LOADs of a program and total Program XCTL to a program

There are times when we would like to identify whether a program is in use inside a CICS region(s). Performance Analyzer counts generally are associated with the transaction. We need a count of totals number of Program LINKS to a program, total Pr...
about 1 year ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 0 Not under consideration

Adding filtering capabilities to the TDI datasets

In an SMU widget you can choose different Omegamon datasets, but there is a difference between the TDI datasets and the original datasets. If you choose the TDI datasets there are no filter options (filter on 'Managed System Name' and no 'Prelimin...
over 3 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

Update CICS/PA to utilize zIIPs

The product should be enhanced to offload to zIIPs to reduce the hardware cost of implementation.
over 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

User can provide baseline value in Profiling reports

Now the Profiling report's baseline must be the other day's SMF data.But we want to set our own baseline value.
over 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Configuration refresh and relative generation

The ability to refresh the policy configuration screen should provide the same dsn codification as the INGAMS command
over 1 year ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Planned for future release

Add filtering to Statistic Reports

I believe it would be useful to add filters to both List and Summary Statistics report. For example, report on a given transaction when looking at transaction stats. Or only report transactions that have an ATTACH>0. For file stats it could be ...
about 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 7 Functionality already exists