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IBM Z Decision Support

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Connect:Direct SMF Collection

IBM Connect:Direct for z/OS, a managed file transfer product, has the capability to generate SMF data (Type 132) if its statistics exit, DGAXSMF, is activated. Historical statistics are available using Connect:Direct's online interface but this pr...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

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

Support for additional SMF119 Type 3 fields

Attempted to use the IBM Z Decision Support software (Tivoli Decision Support for z/OS) to generate a report of all FTP client connections and their security attributes. While these fields exist in the SMF119 Type 3 records, they are not collected...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Future consideration

TDS UAC Tolerance for Broadcom CA IDMS 19

Processing SMF generated data out of IDMS 19 no longer selects matches of out of the CIMSTBL list.
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

Allow system symbols in started task parameters

Please allow system symbols in all parameters for the decision support started tasks.
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

Please add TIME_RES lookup tables to more IDSZ components

Please add TIME_RES lookup tables to more IDSZ components. Currently there are only two TIME_RES tables for CP (CP_TIME_RES) and MVSPM (MVSPM_TIME_RES) components and we are looking this feature for all components
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 2 Future consideration

Please provide summary IzDS tables for critical components like DASD, CF etc

Please provide summary IzDS tables for critical components like DASD, CF etc.We are currently using table MVSPM_DEVICE_H to retrieve DASD usage and response data. The data has one record per DASD device. A key metric for us is to have response and...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Future 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...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Future consideration