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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
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 2 Future consideration

Please provide summary IzDS tables for critical components like DASD, CF etc

Please provide summary IzDS tables for critical components like DASD, CF etc.We are currently using table MVSPM_DEVICE_H to retrieve DASD usage and response data. The data has one record per DASD device. A key metric for us is to have response and...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Future consideration

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?
over 7 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Planned for future release

Drop & recreate DB2 views only when tables change

Currently the DB2 views are dropped and recreated each time a component is re-installed. Doing so removes security every time an install job is executed. This incentivizes us to update less often because we have to open requests to security to gra...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Planned for future release

Add additional IDAA fields to transaction information

Please add new fields for the number of create, drop, open, commit, and rollback statements a transaction performed in the following tables: DB2_USER_TRAN_H/D/WDB2_TRANSACTION_D/WA_DB2_USERTRAN_IA_DB2_UT_IDAA_I Each field is from the DB2 accountin...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 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...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Planned for future release

No hourly statistics for DFSMS DCOLLECT

the DFSMS component only collects at daily level, could you think about the creation of an hourly table, for exemple a DFSMS_VOLUME_H could help in the daily peak analisis for a Storage Group given.
about 9 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 2 Planned for future release

Discrepancy for column timestamp in table DS_ACTIVITY_%

Recently we started to use the Data Set Component. Something seems strange with the column timestamp used in tables DS_ACTIVITY_%. The only timestamp collected is the one of job start time, that is from fields SMF14RSD,SMF14RST. But for a long run...
about 10 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Future consideration

Additional component for BATCH job statistics stored in TDS on an SMF interval basis per job instead of only one per job

We daily upload the SMF data into TDS but were wondering if there's any table containing the resource consumption of these batch jobs on an interval base. We would expect to find this data in the MVSAC_JOBADDR1_T table as this one contains all the...
over 11 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Planned for future release

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