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IBM does not intend to implement this in the foreseeable future.
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - z Systems Software
Product - z/TPF
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - WebSphere
Product family - Transaction Processing
Product - z/TPF
Recoup, CRUISE VERIFY will only provide in-use counts. We are interested in total daily consumption by record ID. Data Collection can only provide a small sampling. We collect total daily consumption counts for all pool types for trending, forecasting, and problem diagnosis.
As far as concern on any "out of sync" condition, we have had this happen on occasion, when short term was used instead of long, or vice versa. The result was a few lost addresses. Many record IDs need to be in the RIAT for VFA candidacy. The RIAT attributes override what ever is in the DBDEF. It is consistent with non-DF records.
As far as the daily usage per application, that information should already be available with GETFC logging, as z/TPFDF uses the application name (not the z/TPFDF segment) whenever z/TPFDF issues GETFC on behalf of the customer.
The real issue is the record ID information. The customer appears focused on the "monitoring" aspect of this. We are wondering if perhaps alternative methods are (or will be) available to the customer without needing to implement this enhancement request. For example:
Recoup and CRUISE VERIFY will provide pool usage per record ID.
z/TPFDF data collection will provide rates and counts for GETFC calls per record ID
Furthermore, there are existing requirements that z/TPFDF data collection should be integrated into z/TPF data collection as well as into continuous data collection (CDC). IBM is already investigating those requirements. If those requirements were implemented, would that provide the functionality that the customer is looking for?
One hesitation we have with this requirement is that if record ID's used in z/TPFDF databases were defined in RIAT, then the possibility exists that the RIAT definitions and the corresponding DBDEF entries will get "out of sync", which could lead to unpredictable results. It is possible add some validation into z/TPFDF processing to check for that, but those checks would need to be constantly executed, and the benefit here is not clear.