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IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics

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Improve its forecasting to encompass increases to workloads leading to and retreating from the event being measured

IZCPA can detect workload statistics data significant changes and use it as a prediction factor to increase the accuracy of prediction.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

CPU consumption of the batch sub modules

need the number of calls and the consumption of the sub modules called by a cobol program in batch in iZPCA tables.
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Support SMF_132 or SMF_192 records

American Express Account needs to do reports using NDM SMF type 132 and XCOM SMF Type 192.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

Product needs to display summary of 4HRA lpars

Customer has an agreement for MSU's for all dev/test lpars. Product needs to show a summary of the total monthly MSU's, so this can be tracked.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

Please create/update izpca with record definition and tables for SMF 116 class 4 report and SMF_115 subtype 5,6,7

MQ team has been advised by IBM to use these reports and the IZPCA product doesn't have these defined.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

product needs to display sumary of 4HRA for all lpars

Customer wants to track spending for hardware which is summary of 4HRA for all lpars. The products does not provide a summary of this.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration