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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.
6 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Full support of SMF102 data

CDP / ZLDA only supports a limited subset of SMF102 records. At a minimum, IFCID 145 and IFCID 142 are required; ideally all of the fields within SMF102 are needed. The customer has chosen Splunk as a strategic platform for enterprise log analysis...
11 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Support multiple sysplex configuration files with zBuilder

We have a need to manage configurations files for multiple sysplexes. For example, dataset names stored with the Languages.yaml file differ from one sysplex to another.
19 days ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Planned for future release

Add which port to the product

Please consider adding the which port available from the zopen community to be one of the tools provided via the product.
about 2 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

IBM should handle the location and moving of the CFRM Message-Based Manager

GDPS produces the following alert: GEOH125E VPC8C011 GDPS_CHECK_XCF CFRM Message-based manager system is a Controlling System This is an indication that a role is found active on the GDPS Controlling system which may lead to an impact or prevent G...
about 3 years ago in GDPS 17 Planned for future release

Additional functionality to saveOutput methods in JobExec class in DBB Toolkit API to ignore DD-name/header

Hello, Currently in the different saveOutput methods in the JobExec class that uses the ddName parameter to save the output of a specific DD in an executed job the DD-name/header is included in the file that is saved as the initial line. This unfo...
3 months ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Planned for future release

GDPS Standard Options 3 doesn't show enough information

It would be useful to have more information in panel 3 of Gdps 'standard options' to show the size of Memory of all lpars including CF. We now use GDPS to activate/load lpars and we need to check if a new memory profile updated has been taken into...
about 2 years ago in GDPS 13 Planned for future release

CPC Operations query - CBU records

It order to reduce the access to the HMC-SE, could be useful to have more information in panel 3 --> 1 --> R near related CPC (VPCPCOPR) of GDSPS like to show for each RecID the expiration date and time.
almost 2 years ago in GDPS 13 Planned for future release

SMF92-subtype 51 to 59 in zCDP

We're currently working on zFS statistics to tune the performance, looking at HBORS092 member in CDP SHBODEFS, it looks like the SMF92 subtype 5x are missing (51 to 59). Could you please update zCDP and create some nice datastreams to monitor zFS ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

Possibility to disable automatic "PU config on" by GDPS when CBU is active at IPL

Any z/OS system that is IPLed after the CBU, CPE, BOOST, or OOCoD activate will automatically have the PUs configured online during GDPS initialization in that system. This is not always a wanted configuration. For example, when Dev/Test system ar...
about 1 year ago in GDPS 8 Planned for future release