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    Please round SMF TIME to 15 min boundaries

    Several of the KPM reports will show records landing outside the 15 min boundaries when viewing SMF INTERVAL report level. This is confusing as the User doesn't know if this applies to the prior interval or the next interval. Additional investigat...
    5 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

    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...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

    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 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

    Enhancement for IzPCA to use a feed from zVM Performance Data Pump

    We are starting to look at using IzPCA but having to setup hourly feeds from Performance Toolkit is time consuming and requires extra code to make this work, feeding the data from Data Pump seems the more logical way to do this.
    about 1 month ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

    Add a table using MQS_115_216 records

    Currently there are no tables using MQS_115_216 records. It will be useful to have a table using those records.
    6 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Under review

    DB2 programs that run under the TSO batch IKJEFT01

    To plan CPU/MSU consumption for batch programs, we use reports that utilize data from SMF_30, whose source is the EXEC PGM= card. Since we are executing DB2 batch programs under TSO, the program that actually executed the program does not appear i...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

    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 ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

    As per documentation, please make sure the data load always ensures that DESCRIPTION fields are always blank if not alpha, and not HEX(0).

    This causes data validation and display issues when HEX(0) is present in a description field. e.g. SMF70SPN field in the SMF 70 record: LPAR cluster name. For z/OS®, the LPAR cluster name is the sysplex name. For any other logical partition, the L...
    5 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

    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.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

    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 ...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 2 Future consideration

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