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IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics

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    Please provide alerting for when continuous collectors stop collecting

    Recently we had a situation where some of our continuous collectors stopped committing records. The tasks remained up, there were no warning or error messages on the joblog, but no records were being committed. The tasks also held locks and caused...
    4 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

    Please remove the &PREFIX from every SQL CREATE VIEW statement in SDRLDEFS

    I am creating this RFE again, it is a duplicate of the TDSz RFE titled "Use SHEMAs in TDSz SDRLDEFS members" from 2018. Our corporate naming standards do not allow for creating the DRL or DRLSYS secondary auth IDs. All the views in IZPCA are creat...
    5 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

    Mapping for SMF 1154 records

    Hello! AMEX required mapping for SMF 1154 records. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=reference-type-1154-smf-records
    5 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

    Please provide means for CSQLIGHT/DRLSLOGP to enrich log with SYSPLEX_NAME, MVS_SYSTEM_ID and even IMS_CTRL_REGION

    The COLLECT CSQ for IMS depends on the IMS_SYSTEM_NAMES lookup table. However, any shop having the same IMS_SYSTEM_IDs on all their SYSPLEX environments (PROD/QUAL/DEV) have to manually set the SYSPLEX_NAME, MVS_SYSTEM_ID, IMS_CTRL_REGION making i...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

    Replace CICS_TIMEZONE table with offset in SMF record

    We would like an option to use the time zone 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 l...
    7 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

    Add detailed information for MVS_DASDTAPE IZPCA table

    I would like to collaborate with you on a request to incorporate VTOC details into the MVS_DASDTAPE IZPCA table. The team is currently working on initiatives to add detailed TAPE and DASD VTOC information into our observability platform). The MVS_...
    8 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

    Please provide IMS components compatible with partitioning functionality

    Please provide IMS components compatible with partitioning functionality Would it be possible to have the IMS components make use of the PROFILE='IMS' and add the missing GENERATE PARTITIONING statements to take full advantage of the partitioning ...
    8 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

    Add RMF 74 subtype 10 support

    Starting with IBM z15, IBM relocated EADM/zEDC and SCM (Storage Class Memory) metrics from RMF 74 subtype 9 to subtype 10. These performance metrics are key for measuring z/OS system, application performance, yet with IzPCA, there is no longer zED...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 6 Under review

    Need the ability to modify the X-Axis on Cognos report

    As the size of the data charted via Cognos expands, the x-axis definitions become harder and harder to read as they become smaller and smaller and crowded together. Need a way to change the number displayed on the chart after it is generated.
    10 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

    We need the record definition and the table for smf type 87.

    We need SMF TYPE 87 record data to keep a track on conversion from RESERVE to GLOBAL ENQ. This is a key metrics and we would like this to be the part of healthcheck dashboard. This is also recommended by IBM and we need this to be part of IzPCA
    10 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

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