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IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS

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Customer needs ability to load DCOLLECT data from multiple shared-DASD environments per sysplex

Many customers have multiple share-DASD environments per sysplex but can only send 1 DCOLLECT file per sysplex
about 22 hours ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Submitted

Include Websphere application names (SMF1209EY)

The original request was to add Websphere application names. The customer added this text in a later email. I decided to look at Vision WebSphere reporting to see what is there as opposed to what was originally requested (and we still need). <d...
1 day ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Submitted

IntelliMagic Vision with DS8A00 with FCM4 shows incorrect values at "% of the real capacity that is allocated"

DS8A00 with FCM4 has additional reporting data (like writable capacity) IntelliMagic Vision "Allocated capacity in the storage pool" shows correct values IntelliMagic Vision "% of the real capacity that is allocated" shows incorrect values High Ri...
17 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add server support for Linux (zLinux)

Mountains of data are moved to support Intellimagic Vision, especially for heavy IMS users. It would be great if we could install the server on Linux - specifically zLinux RHEL. This would allow all of the network traffic to be contained within th...
20 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 1 Future consideration

zHyperlink Threshold formulation, adjust thresholds

The result is that we currently show false positives for a number of thresholds. Joe Hyde's analysis provides formulation of threshold changes needed for at least one metric, and there may be others that need adjustment.
17 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Customers would like to be able to 'extract' metric listing from within IntelliMagic

The search has good capability to cross reference and find reports and fields (metrics) that IntelliMagic reports on, but since there are so many variables available in the database and tables, customers would like to see all of them in one place....
2 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Please add the support for zLinux as IntelliMagic server when using on-premises version

Now only Windows server is supportable as on-premises server for IntelliMagic. Our customer wants to use it on zLinux.
4 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Show a warning on the chart when all data is not available to span the selection that the user specified.

It is a little confusing if a customer/user specifies a range that is not available in the data base (for retention reasons for example). A warning would inform them that they are not looking at all the data that they requested.
2 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add the support for TFP report

IntelliMagic Vision provides SCRT report and Usage 4 Hour Rolling Average report, but TFP report is not provided.Would you add the support for TFP report?
4 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Selecting some charts (e.g. Page Frames) is useful to do per CEC. Currently, a manual filter needs to be set. We should add the CEC name to the appropriate tables, even though it may not be in the specific SMF record.

Some charts make more sense when viewed at a CEC level. Real storage is an example. Currently, the customer needs to ensure that they manually set a filter to limit the reporting to a specific CEC. We should simply support the CEC name as an addit...
2 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Future consideration