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IBM Z Decision Support

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Add DB2 zHyperlink fields from SMF

Please add zHyperlink SMF fields to the proper DB2 / D_DB2 / A_DB2 component tables.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Planned for future release

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...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

Support for Connect:Direct statistics

Currently there is no way to gather IBM Connect:Direct statistics records, like the TCP/FTP functionality.
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

SQLCODE = -204 when updating System Tables.

When updating the SYSTEM table with Z Decision Support V1.9.0, the screen display was "System tables are updated successfully".However, there was a table space that failed to create, and "SQLCODE = -204" was recorded in DRLOUT. In this case, pleas...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

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
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

COMMIT frequency in PURGE

Include an COMMIT frequency parameter in PURGE command. We have large tablespaces and an huge retetion (6 months to 2 years depending of the table). When the PURGE execute the job takes more or less 5 hours, causing the resources get locked and ti...
over 1 year 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.
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

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...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

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...
over 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.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Planned for future release

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