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IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics

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Separate out the IDAA Addition from the DB2 Component

Most customers don't have IDAA installed and the addition of this feature is unnecessary unless requested. Adding in the tables for it is just a waste of resources, and dasd.
10 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide Documentation on Tables For Which No Reports exist and their Usage

It would like with the management of the Data Base and dasd usage, and purge of the data.
10 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Define sub-type SMF record in the extractor parameters

In the param file of the IZDS Extractor, we use the SMFREC parameter to define SMF record type to collect. We would like todefine sub-type of SMF record with ZCPA.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Prevent Abends in the Software due to Deadlocks, Buffer full, etc.

When the product abends manual intervention is required to restart it. This requires support staff to determine the cause and restart the task. It also requires that a case be opened that your staff has to review and respond it, wasting time, then...
12 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

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

Rollups for MVS_ZCONNECT2_T

The transaction level detail on this table piles up quickly. We would like rollups for trending and forecasting so that the detail may be removed more quickly.
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Improve zVM component to track zVM Memory Usage

Today we have both IzPCA components for the zVM Installed (VMACCT and VMPRF). Anyway, the tables included in these components does not provide fields to track zVM memory usage, trends or bottlenecks. Please add fields to the tables in the zVM comp...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 3 Not under consideration

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