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Stream DC Queue Manager Trace report in JSON format to Analytics platform

It would be great to get the DC Queue Manager Trace report directly in an analytics platform, as we already have the possibility to send Transaction Transit list report. The idea would be to stream the input messages (in a consolidated format) of ...
7 months ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Stream Deadlock reports in JSON format to Analytics platform

As of now, there is no way to stream deadlock reports in JSON to an analytics platform with IMS Performance Analyzer. It would be great to get the deadlock reports directly streamed to an analytics platform, as we already have the possibility to s...
7 months ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Use colon between ISO time fields instead of period

ISO Time fields in IMS Performance Analyzer are currently output as yyyy-mm-dd-hh.mm.ss.thmiju. Some data analytics platforms had issues ingesting that field as-is due to the period '.' between hh, mm and ss. These platforms expect colon between ...
19 days ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Under review

No hyphen between date and time in ISO time fields in CSV output

ISO Time fields in IMS Performance Analyzer are currently output as yyyy-mm-dd-hh.mm.ss.thmiju. The hyphen between the date and time caused issues ingesting the field as-is into some analytics engines. We're asking for an option to be able to rem...
19 days ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Under review

CICS & z/OS Connect Time inconsistent in report

When analyzing through CICS/PA a report of type ZCON we find discrepancies in the times that make it practically useless On one side, CICS appears in Local Time, but the z/OS Connect show the time in UTC. Could this not be unified? Also (obviating...
about 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Provide SMF support for all IMS PA (streaming) services

It will make it safer to provide the possibility for (all) IMS PA reports to use SMF, both from an availability and security perspective, By having CDP (or other product) collect the data from SMF and pass it to the correct subscriber, will only n...
about 1 year ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

Omegamon ATF Trace DDL - Column Names

IMS PA comes with Db2 DDL to use for loading Omegamon IMS ATF records, but the column names are very cryptic. Would be good to have more user friendly column names for easier understanding.
5 months ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Intellimagic support for x'45' records

Intellimagic requires IMS x'45' log records for some reporting. We currently use IMS PA to get the other records Intellimagic requires, would like to keep this all in one process and have IMS PA also provide the x'45' records.
5 months ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Process Liberty SMF 120 for zOS Connect

Liberty SMF 120 Subtype 11 records SM120BBW has the time record when liberty received the zOS Connect request. Once the request is successfully dispatch to z/OS Connect, z/OS Connect records SMF123S1_TIME_ZC_ENTRY entry. Currently PA formats SMF 1...
about 4 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Make CICS PA able to run in zIIP engines.

Customer asked for the possibility to CICS PA run in zIIP processors. Bradesco uses the product intensively.
over 5 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration