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Provide reporting capability for System Recovery Boost (SRB)

There is currently no easy way to obtain a consolidated view of System Recovery Boost (SRB) activity that occurs on zOS. Components of zOS, for example, SDSF have provided some SRB reporting (IDEA # ZOS-I-3985) as well as enhancements to SMF 90 (4...
about 1 month ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Under review

Measurement Interval - Option for "Last 0 days" to get current day info only in dashboards.

I have a lot of charts in my dashboards whose measurement interval is Last 1 days. This gives me info from yesterday up until current time. It would be helpful to have an option for Last 0 days to get current date info only. I can bring up the cha...
3 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

IntelliMagic Vision with DS8A00 with FCM4 shows incorrect values at "% of the real capacity that is allocated"

DS8A00 with FCM4 has additional reporting data (like writable capacity) IntelliMagic Vision "Allocated capacity in the storage pool" shows correct values IntelliMagic Vision "% of the real capacity that is allocated" shows incorrect values High Ri...
9 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Year-over-Year / Month-over-Month Date Comparison Feature

Customers would like the ability to compare metrics for the same calendar date across different periods — for example, Jan 1 vs. Feb 1, or Jan 1, 2024 vs. Jan 1, 2025.This feature would automate date-aligned comparisons of key performance indicato...
about 1 month ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Under review

Interactive Time-Series Zoom & Pan for Trend Charts

When large volumes of SMF data are imported, customers often have extensive trend data across long time periods. To improve data exploration, it would be helpful to introduce interactive zoom and pan capabilities (similar to financial market chart...
about 1 month ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Under review

Add preference for RDz Data Editor to change the square to another monospaced character

If binary data is included in the record and displayed with the RDz Data Editor, it can include '?'(U+25AD0 in place of a control character. Add a new preference item to the font settings in the data editor to allow users to change the '?'(U+25AD)...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Not under consideration

Add Support for DB2 Topology Configuration Anomalies: Single points of failure

Single points of failure within the topology as it relates to DB2 best practices. The exciting part of this is that it represents a new category of reports based on our topology reports and existing capabilities. The new type of report is a config...
about 1 month ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Under review

Add a "last logged in date/time stamp" column in the Web UI for each account

The additional column will be useful for the defined IM for zOS-aaS Admins as it will then aid in the ongoing housekeeping of the accounts as well as provide an audit of when the account(s) were last successfully logged into the Web UI
7 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Combine 2 or more columns in a report.

We need the ability to combine 2 (or more) value columns in a report. For example, currently for DB2 reporting the # of threads is a combination of Commits + Abort Requests. We would like to add their values into a column called Threads and be abl...
about 2 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Under review

Please add the support for zLinux as IntelliMagic server when using on-premises version

Now only Windows server is supportable as on-premises server for IntelliMagic. Our customer wants to use it on zLinux.
about 1 year ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Planned for future release