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No hourly statistics for DFSMS DCOLLECT

the DFSMS component only collects at daily level, could you think about the creation of an hourly table, for exemple a DFSMS_VOLUME_H could help in the daily peak analisis for a Storage Group given.
over 10 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 2 Planned for future release

data set concatenation on remote z/os file search

The Remote z/OS File search should act similar as ISRSUPC in ISPF/SCLM and get an option to search concatenated (like in SCLM). When multiple Data Set Names are specified in the Remote z/OS File Search dialog, please add an option (checkbox) to re...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 1 Not under consideration

Sort Tabs in Remote Shell View

When we have several tabs open in the the Remote Shell view, it would be very helpful if we could sort them in the same way as we can sort the tabs in the editor.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 2 Not under consideration

Provide ability to aggregate RMF-based data (e.g. CPU, IO, Memory etc. tables) into Weekly and/or Monthly trend tables

Need ability to create aggregation tables for RMF-based data for longer term trending. For example, create MVSPM_DEVICE_W, MVSPM_DEVICE_M tables for Device activity; simillarly for MVSPM_LCU_IO_H, MVSPM_CHANNEL_H, MVS_PAGING_H, MVSPM_VS_$$$$$_H, M...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Planned for future release

Explorer needs grouped connections to relate ftp connection and cmci connection together

RBS has multiple sysplex and CICSplex.When switching CMCI session the related FTP session does not switch automatically.Which means the explorer can deliver incorrect results because of a mismatch between active CMCI and FTP session connections. A...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 1 Not under consideration

Discrepancy for column timestamp in table DS_ACTIVITY_%

Recently we started to use the Data Set Component. Something seems strange with the column timestamp used in tables DS_ACTIVITY_%. The only timestamp collected is the one of job start time, that is from fields SMF14RSD,SMF14RST. But for a long run...
about 11 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Future consideration

Additional component for BATCH job statistics stored in TDS on an SMF interval basis per job instead of only one per job

We daily upload the SMF data into TDS but were wondering if there's any table containing the resource consumption of these batch jobs on an interval base. We would expect to find this data in the MVSAC_JOBADDR1_T table as this one contains all the...
over 12 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Planned for future release