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IBM Z Decision Support

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TDS SMF105

It would be really nice if TDS included SMF105. TDS is a powerful performance reporting tool, which customers have used to improve their reporting capabilities. SMF105 is important for customer with GDPS/GM environments.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1

Use timezone offset already in SMF 110 records for CICS components

We would like an option to use the timezone offset already in the SMF 110 records, instead of the CICS_TIMEZONES lookup table to reduce the amount of wrong data collected during a time change and eliminate the need to monitor the offsets in the lo...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Planned for future release

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

Time-based batch collect commit frequency

I would like to request an upper limit on the amount of (wall-clock/elapsed) time between commits when using the batch collector. Current commit frequency options are inadequate to prevent uncommitted UR problems, if a batch job is CPU-delayed, an...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 2 Planned for future release

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The SYSPLEX lookup table is obsolete for tables that read from SMF type 30 records that already include the SMF30SYP field.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...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 2 Planned for future release

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.
almost 3 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 ?
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Not under consideration

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...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Planned for future release

Allow system symbols in started task parameters

Please allow system symbols in all parameters for the decision support started tasks.
over 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
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 2 Future consideration