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IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics

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Add collection for SMF88 subclass 1 and 11.

Define a new tables that will maintain SMF 88 subtype 1,11 for logstream performance.
26 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

Create a solution on IZPCA to support multiple customers with the same MVS_SYSTEM_ID

This idea will be a great improvement in the architecture of IZPCA to be able the new scenario of zCloud. Kyndryl is supporting customer in zCloud and the IZPCA must be installed to support all these customers in a shared DB in zCloud. To support ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 2 Future consideration

zPCR and zBNA - Offer as a zOSMF Plugin

zPCR and zBNA should be available as zOSMF Plugins to avoid SMF data to be exported off platform. Both Plugins relay on SMF data which is stored and protected on the Mainframe. Currently we have to offload them via FTP to an other platform where w...
7 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Integration in the SMF_100_1_X record definition of information related to IFCID 369 and load them in a new D_KPM_DB2_% table

Integration in the SMF_100_1_X record definition (Record DB2 with deltas calculation via DRLSD64D program) of information related to IFCID 369 (Aggregated Accounting Statistics). This will let us get accounting information aggregated from the SMF ...
12 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

Please add Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to IZPCA Tables

We have multiple time zone LPARs. We would like to be able to work with a common time (UTC) so that data from LPARs with different time zones can be aligned correctly.
8 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

Add the LSPR workload type to the CP CEC Usage Analysis report - Report number CPCPU01

Currently in the CP CEC Usage Analysis report - Report number CPCPU01 we notice that the CEC MIPS rating changes/fluctuates e.g. 3931-710 has 18788 MIPS according to the IBM LSPR table. However during certain intervals, we notice the MIPS drop to ...
7 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

Add collection of SMF 42 subtype 15,16,17,18,19 for RLS performance.

Define a new table that will maintain SMF 42 subtype 15,16,17,18,19 for RLS performance.
5 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Turn possible to select SMF record subtype in continuous collection extractor.

Currently we would like to select some subtypes of SMF_119, excluding subtype 11.
4 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

KPMZ_WORKLOAD_T: fields related number of transactions and the response time when HPDBAT is active (OA62758)

Hi all,we work with IZPCA table named KPMZ_WORKLOAD_T to execute analysis on performance at service class level.When HPDBAT is active on DB2 of our systems, fields TRANSACTION and TRAN_ELAPSED_SEC show us misleading informations.On OA61811 (https:...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Enhance the Reporting on DASD Volumes such that not all are reported on as MOD9s

Use the number of cylinders per Dasd volume to denote if a MOD27 or MOD54 rather then denoting all volumes as MOD9s.
8 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Planned for future release

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