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Status Future consideration
Categories z/TPF
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 18, 2019

Desire to have LONG RUNNING ECBS as a part of CDC

We have a desire to include LONG RUNNING ECBS, as currently in the standard IBM Data Collection. In the data collection, the output looks as follows (where the value of long running ECBS is 919.000):

SYSTEM SUMMARY REPORT 19 MAR 14:00:02 SYSTEM PAGE 2
90 OBSERVATIONS
INSTANTANEOUS ACTIVITY MIN MAX MEAN
ACTIVE ECBS 1075.000 1210.000 1124.988
LOW PRIORITY ECBS 0.000 0.000 0.000
LONG RUNNING ECBS 919.000
TIME-SLICEABLE ECBS 0.000 0.000 0.000
TIME SLICES (PER SECOND) 0.000 0.000 0.000

We'd like this added to Continuous Data Collection.

I accidentally put the wrong BRAND, so I can no longer change the PRODUCT group. This should be ITM (Tivoli Monitoring).

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Jun 28, 2019

    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
    Component - z/TPF
    Operating system - IBM z/TPF
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - Tivoli Management Services on z/OS
    Component - Product functionality
    Operating system - z/OS
    Source - None

  • Guest
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    Jun 18, 2019

    I believe that I created the wrong PRODUCT group on this one. It should be IBM Tivoli (ITM) / z/TPF, Travel and Transportation, but I couldn't determine how to change it. My apologies.