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IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics

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Provide Documentation on Tables For Which No Reports exist and their Usage

It would like with the management of the Data Base and dasd usage, and purge of the data.
7 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under 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

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

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!
over 2 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
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Remove the requirement of Db2 SYSADM authority to access the IZPCA panels to perform specific functions.

DB2 SYSADM is the highest level of administrative authority at a DB2 subsystem level. Users with SYSADM authority can run some utilities and issue some database and database manager commands within the instance. A user with SYSADM authority can gr...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Prevent Abends in the Software due to Deadlocks, Buffer full, etc.

When the product abends manual intervention is required to restart it. This requires support staff to determine the cause and restart the task. It also requires that a case be opened that your staff has to review and respond it, wasting time, then...
9 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Centralize the Documentation on the Lookup tables

Support Staff will better be able to determine how and why to update the Lookup tables.
9 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Let the Customer's DB2 Staff manage the Data Base Tables

Support for the software will be easier to manage. Trying to make sure the tables get updated with every upgrade is error prone requiring component reinstalls to fix missing tables / views. DB2 staff at a customer are always more intune with the i...
9 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Define sub-type SMF record in the extractor parameters

In the param file of the IZDS Extractor, we use the SMFREC parameter to define SMF record type to collect. We would like todefine sub-type of SMF record with ZCPA.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 2 Not under consideration