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IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics

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Provide TS7700 BVIR support

The latest VTS technology does not use SMF type94 records for VTS monitoring/performance. Instead, BVIR records exported from the clusters are extracted. Need to be able to load these records for VTS activity and other information.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Create IIDR plugin for TDS/IZPCA

The z/OS Capture agent for IIDR (aka IBM CDC) has the ability to cut performance metrics as SMF records. However there is no 'off the shelf' facility to store these records for subsequent analysis. Both TDS and IZPCA have DB2 backend databases to ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

IMS Component partitioned by IMS_REGION

Currently we have many IMS regions and huge logs to be processed. It would be great if IZPCA provides a solution that we could process IMS logs in parallel with a entire IMS component petitioned by IMS_REGION.
8 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Improve TSO/ISPF administration interface to use IBM-standard LIBDEF / ALTLIB facilities - remove current requirement for STEPLIB / LOGON PROC customization

The current IzPCA admin-function is restrictive, requiring TSO LOGON PROC and/or hardcoded STEPLIB (for IzPCA and Db2 environment)
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Accurately normalize CPUsec reporting in the RAF component

CPUsec reporting in the Resource Accounting Feature does not differentiate between GCP and zIIP processors. For customers that run zIIP processors in their environment, RAF records CPUsec equally, regardless of processor type, and RAF only applies...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Solution in IZPCA to provide information based on SMF_121

Hello, Currently I don't see any solution in IZPCA providing information based on SMF_121.Could you please confirm if you have been working in some solution to provide information using SMF_121 or planning something on that? Thank you!
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 3 Future consideration

Make IZPCA RMM and SMS reports accurate across a Sysplex

Make IZPCA RMMand SMS reports accurate across a Sysplex
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

New tables KPMZ_CPUMF1_LP_T & KPMZ_CPUMFM1_LP_T

Create KPMZ_CPUMF1_LP_T & KPMZ_CPUMF1_LP_T respectively similar to KPMZ_CPUMF1_T & KPMZ_CPUMFM1_T tables but including LP number in key
9 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 2 Not under consideration

New table KPMZ_LPAR_LP_%

Create KPMZ_LPAR_LP_% similar to KPMZ_LPAR_% table but including LP number in key
9 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Provide additoinal commands for Purge

How we can control the COMMITS in the PURGE statement of the DRLPLC utility. We need to set a low commit so we do not get logs filling up and eliminate “DSNI031I -DBP2 DSNILKES - LOCK ESCALATION HAS OCCURRED FOR” issues.? Need additional parameter...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

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