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Capability to select specific IP address in batch

In order to have reports for specific server, It would be nice to be able to select an IP address (more than 8 characters) on a select/INC/EXC statement.
about 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

Process Liberty SMF 120 for zOS Connect

Liberty SMF 120 Subtype 11 records SM120BBW has the time record when liberty received the zOS Connect request. Once the request is successfully dispatch to z/OS Connect, z/OS Connect records SMF123S1_TIME_ZC_ENTRY entry. Currently PA formats SMF 1...
over 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

CICS PA - Improve Data Dictionary mass update process

When using the "Mass update" option to populate the data dictionary file then only the details for the last CICS region to be processed is recorded in the Data Dictionary file. If you need to use Data Dictionary files then you need to have a separ...
about 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Make CICS PA able to run in zIIP engines.

Customer asked for the possibility to CICS PA run in zIIP processors. Bradesco uses the product intensively.
almost 4 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Make the CICS PA able to use DB2 tables as an input data source

Make the CICS PA able to use DB2 tables as an input data source, particulary the SMF110 records loaded by the IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA) Loader for z/OS.
over 5 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

New CICSPA for other wait time

In SMF110 records the suspend time field is the sum of all CICS wait times + "other wait time". We would like to have "other wait time" as a CICSPA field in order to rapidly identify if the problem is a CICS issue or a z/OS issue.
over 5 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

zospt could provision PA report

CEB would like to know if zospt could help to generate JCL to print PA report,the input properties is kinds of parameters.
over 5 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CICS/PA to save dictionary records for later use

We would like CICS/PA to write out the dictionary records it finds as it reads CICS 110 data. Then as dictionary records age off, they can be removed (not copied) to the dictionary file.
about 6 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

CICS PA Logger report enhancements.

We see CICSPA can read SMF-88 (Logger data). Redbook(Paper ) redp-3768 describes how SMF-88 and SMF-110 can be used together to tune the Logger files. While all these calculations can be manually done, we would like to know if CICSPA can be enhanc...
over 8 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS PA needs improved messages related to dictionary processing

CICS PA needs provide more robust and detailed informational messages related to why the default dictionary record is chosen.
over 8 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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