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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on May 4, 2020

Provide Liberty level details of z/OS Connect address space – related to connection pool usage point

Require the ability to monitor the connection pools (session usage, free/in use/waiting) by individual connection name, in order to identify resource usage for problem determination and increase in traffic/usage. This will allow us to plan ahead if there is a predicted rise in traffic come along.

Current functionality is limited as it only gives:
- No view currently of the connection usage. The only time you can see anything to do with a connection issue is when the pool is full and you are waiting for a connection, as seen in the threads display. However, even this does not display which connection pool you are waiting on. You cannot track the utilization of the connection factory to decide if you need to increase the number of sessions to cater for workload growth. You only know you have a problem when you are waiting for a connection and even that is not easy to see.

- This information also needs to be viewed historically, in real time.

Idea priority High