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IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics

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IZPCA / COGNOS NEW COST REPORTS TFP WITH MONETARY VALUES BASED IN MSU

Many customers wants to know how much money they are paying by LPAR, WORKLOAD and SERVICE/REPORT CLASS using TFP – Tailored Fit Pricing model. Nowadays, IZPCA/COGNOS has cost RESOURCE ACCOUNTING reports based in monetary values (cost of CPU second...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 8 Under review

Enable zEDC compression support in the SMF Extractor of ZPCA

It would be usefull an enhancement for Z Performance and Capacity Analytics (ZPCA) to support native zEDC compression within the SMF Extractor, similar to the compression available when SMF compress records before writting to the logstream (SMFPRM...
6 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

Add Record definition for SMF 49 sub-type 9

Add Record definition for SMF 49 sub-type 9 and even better : tables exploiting those records.
2 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

Make the CICS_FIELD procedure automated to include new OFFSETs to the CICS-FIELD table

When a CICS new Release is released by IBM, the IZPCA users have to update the CICS_FIELD Table executing a manual process. This is an error prone procedure; thus, we suggest the IZPCA development to adjust it to a safer process to be executed by ...
8 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Under review

Stream IBM IMS Performance Analyzer (IPA) data to IZPCA

We would like to stream IPA data, specifically transaction index records CA01 and CA20, directly to IZPCA. IZPCA is our on-platform analytics tool of choice.
about 1 month ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Create 15 minute interval summary tables for all CICS & DB2 accounting related tables

There are no Timestamp ( _T) tables. Currently all of these tables start with the _H level which are summarized to the hour. So need a _T table equivalents.
5 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

Create global TIME_RES table

Create a global TIME_RES table that includes the TABLE_NAME and the desired summarization time value. Update all tables to reference this table. Global (or centralized method) for TIME_RES vs CP TIME_RES.
5 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

Please define an Application Metrics Scorecard. Similar to the Health & DB2 Metrics Scorecard but from an Application User perspective.

The Application User can see how their respective application is consuming various resources and to help identify issues and diagnose where to direct technical teams on hotspots or deficiencies. An Application User does not have technical knowledg...
5 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

Include SMF 98 subtype 1 in SMF Record Definition available

SMF 98 subtype 1 contains information about spin locks. This could help identify potential situations to reduce CPU Consuption that could be avoided
8 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Under review

Report that analyzes the behavior of CICS Workload when changing from one LPAR A to another LPAR B (with different capacity) and if this LPAR B supports this new workload (if the LPAR B does not support it, the report should indicate what changes need to be made to the LPAR B to support the CICS Workload)

We received this request from management because it would help in evaluating the renewal of the contract with IBM.
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration