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IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics

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Centralize the Documentation on the Lookup tables

Support Staff will better be able to determine how and why to update the Lookup tables.
12 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Let the Customer's DB2 Staff manage the Data Base Tables

Support for the software will be easier to manage. Trying to make sure the tables get updated with every upgrade is error prone requiring component reinstalls to fix missing tables / views. DB2 staff at a customer are always more intune with the i...
12 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

NEW ELAPSED SEC PACKAGE

Create new field in KPM_DB2_PACKAGE_HIn KPM_DB2_PACKAGE_H there is PKG_ELAPSED_SEC(Total elapsed time for executing the package. From QPACSCT).In this field the value of elapsed time is very high only for DB2 Batch because in the summary the tool ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Incorporate Business Planning activities into Forecasting and capacity planning

Provide the ability to incorporate Business Planning activities into Forecasting and capacity planning in general.
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

Document Changes for each PTF/Upgrade

Documentation of changes are being made for each PTF or upgrade would be more useful then trying to figure things out from the HOLDDATA. HOLDDATA is usually only available to the individual doing the SMPE work, not the end users. End users have no...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Remove DB2ADM Requirement for Install & Support

DB2ADM access is too board for the shop. No one in the company has this access. The product should be able to be supported by application teams.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Eliminate the Usage of Passwords for System Tasks

Passwords for System Tasks is not allowed at the Shop. The passwords for the Cognos access and for the Forecasting feature need to be eliminated.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Provide method to help automate the missing SMF rcds when SMF Extractor is down on a Lpar.

It is possible for SMF Extractor to be down and you can lose SMF data to be collected. The only way to collect those missing rcds for that Lpar is to run a COLLECT and estimate a time. It would be nice if SMF Extractor would give 2 timestamps, 1 o...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 3 Future consideration

Add RMF 74 subtype 10 support

Starting with IBM z15, IBM relocated EADM/zEDC and SCM (Storage Class Memory) metrics from RMF 74 subtype 9 to subtype 10. These performance metrics are key for measuring z/OS system, application performance, yet with IzPCA, there is no longer zED...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 4 Future consideration

create a component ZBNA "like" for IZPCA

The extraction of SMF, executiong of CP3K, generation and download off DAT and EDF and import in zBNA is quite annoying and takes time. If you think the input is the same SMF data that we already collect in IZPCA/IZDS family, is quite possible to ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

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