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IBM Z Decision Support

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Add SQL counts columns to KPM_DB2_PACKAGE tables

Add columns to KPM_DB2_PACKAGE tables :SQL_SELECT SQL_INSERT SQL_UPDATE SQL_MERGE SQL_DELETE SQL_OPEN SQL_FETCH SQL_CLOSE
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

Please add LIKE & IN predicates to WHERE

Please add support for the IN and LIKE predicates to the WHERE clause of update definitions to simplify the code.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

Use timezone offset already in SMF 110 records for CICS components

We would like an option to use the timezone offset already in the SMF 110 records, instead of the CICS_TIMEZONES lookup table to reduce the amount of wrong data collected during a time change and eliminate the need to monitor the offsets in the lo...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Planned for future release

Use SHEMAs in TDSz SDRLDEFS members

Instead of specifying the prefix on every DB2 resource, please instead use a SET SCHEMA command in the DDL distributed with TDSz. This will allow a single ID to own all of the DB2 resources created during installation, across an enterprise. Many D...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

Allow for customer specific RACF groups to manage product administration

It is required as a security standard, that groups that are equal to schema of the tables cannot have any users connected to it, as by that, every user in the group becomes the owner of the table and can not only modify data but also drop the tabl...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

Add DB2 zHyperlink fields from SMF

Please add zHyperlink SMF fields to the proper DB2 / D_DB2 / A_DB2 component tables.
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Planned for future release

Add columns to KPM CICS table

Add the following columns to KPMC_MON_TRAN_H (as in CICS_TRANSACTION_H) :- BMS_REQUESTS_TOTAL to quickly identify 3270 transactions- SYNCPOINT_REQUESTS- RESPONSE_MAX_SEC and CPU_MAX_SEC to identify a possible anomaly during the interval (the peaks...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

Track availability for multi-LPAR subsystems

Please allow tracking for multi-LPAR subsystems other than SYSPLEX. As long as one member of a multi-system resource or subsystem is available, there was no outage.
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Planned for future release

TDS SMF105

It would be really nice if TDS included SMF105. TDS is a powerful performance reporting tool, which customers have used to improve their reporting capabilities. SMF105 is important for customer with GDPS/GM environments.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1

Time-based batch collect commit frequency

I would like to request an upper limit on the amount of (wall-clock/elapsed) time between commits when using the batch collector. Current commit frequency options are inadequate to prevent uncommitted UR problems, if a batch job is CPU-delayed, an...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 2 Planned for future release

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