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IBM Z Decision Support

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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

Please replace SYSPLEX_NAME lookup table with SMF30SYP

The SYSPLEX lookup table is obsolete for tables that read from SMF type 30 records that already include the SMF30SYP field. It would be acceptable to us if the collect process read directly from this field where possible, or allow the collect jobs...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 2 Planned for future release

DB2 transaction CONNECT_NAME and CONNECT_SYS_TYPE

Please add to all tables that store DB2 transaction information in the "DB2" & "Analytics - DB2" components, columns for connection type and connection name, populated from SMF 101 record fields QWHCATYP and QWHCCN (respectively). We have cust...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Planned for future release

Getting LFAREA Statistics with TDS

As APAR OA48913 for RMF , could it be possible to map SMF 7x and create tables in order to collect information about large memory frames (LFAREA) usage. Is there any possibility to add some tables within the MVSPM component?
about 7 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Planned for future release

Provide ability to aggregate RMF-based data (e.g. CPU, IO, Memory etc. tables) into Weekly and/or Monthly trend tables

Need ability to create aggregation tables for RMF-based data for longer term trending. For example, create MVSPM_DEVICE_W, MVSPM_DEVICE_M tables for Device activity; simillarly for MVSPM_LCU_IO_H, MVSPM_CHANNEL_H, MVS_PAGING_H, MVSPM_VS_$$$$$_H, M...
over 11 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Planned for future release

Having a report that can have a date selection and the MSU value in IGZS, which is close to the SCRT report.

Right now, we are comparing SCRT Report with IGZS Tables , but the values are not matching and not having option to go over date using KPMZLP05
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Under review

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...
6 months 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...
8 months ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 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

Process SMF Type 23

I need to collect some metrics about SMF Logstreams activity. Could you please provide a component which process those records ?
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Not under consideration

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