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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.
8 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Provide the ability to load comma delimited (or other delimiter) files into IZPCA tables

Anyone having delimited text log data wishing to load into IZPCA custom components
8 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

IZPCA: New subtype record definition for SMF 119

Hello,related to TCP/IP for z/OS Component on IZPCA, we ask you the possibility to define new record for SMF 119 for following subtype:SMF 119_41 SMC-R link group statistics recordSMF 119_42 SMC-R link state start recordSMF 119_43 SMC-R link state...
8 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Enhance capabilities to process TPF and zLinux/zVM data

It's always useful to have one tool to process all types of z systems data. Since IZPCA processes the zOS data, it is more desirable to have the product process zLinus, zVM, TPF(Transaction Processing Facility) in similar manner and generate the k...
9 months 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...
10 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Collector Behavior with Partitioned Tables

Add an option to have the collector issue the following for each partitioned table before insert/update begins for that table in a commit cycle: LOCK TABLE <name> PART <#> IN EXCLUSIVE MODE; This will eliminate the need for escalation ...
10 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Rollups for MVS_ZCONNECT2_T

The transaction level detail on this table piles up quickly. We would like rollups for trending and forecasting so that the detail may be removed more quickly.
10 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Please add a table for SMF type 119 subtype 50 (SMTP) records to IZPCA

Our Network team needs to identify address spaces that are sending emails to JES SMTP (CSSMTP)). In order to do that, we need a component to populate the DB2 tables in the IZPCA product for SMF type 119 subtype 50 (SMTP) records.
11 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future 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...
11 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Collect zSort records, SMF_218 in IZPCA.

Currently IZPCA is not able to collect SMF_218. Could you please implement the mapping of this record type at least?
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

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