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RMF Monitor I Device activity should report about devices that were offline on a part of an interval

System: z/OS USER which uses RMF Actor: User needing RMF Monitor I Device activity report enhancement Description: RMF is a commonly used product on z/OS platform for reporting system resource such as I/O activity. Our customer encountered HyperSw...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 2 Future consideration

Track Service class CPU for only CP - Currently CPU usage in service units includes CP and ZIIP usage.

Currently CPU usage in service units includes CP and ZIIP usage. From TSO the consumption is available on RG panel. From HTTP Data Portal is available with report : service rate by WLM service class [8D1FC0]. In a context where ZIIP processor is h...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 3 Future consideration

Add missing data points for RMF III workload reports - MPL, SSCHRT and Delays

We are able to use RMF PP (or DDS) to check MPL, SSCHRT and Delays(IO, MPL, Q and AUX) for workloads(for service classes)- but couldn't find same values from RMF III. It would be beneficial to have same type/format of data points for RMF III as pr...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 1 Future consideration

We need to monitor the InfiniBand activity by CHPID via RMF

We just implemented some CHPIDs , COUPLE Links 1x between 2 sides 16Km long , into Production System but we can NOT see the individual rates of each CHPID . Via RMF III , SYSPLEX / CFSYS , we can see the Subchannel , Paths ,Sync and Async requests...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 3 Future consideration

Add SSID and CCA for each device in RMF74.1 and DCOLLECT

The RMF 74.1 Logical volume activity records as well as the DCOLLECT records contain the Logical representation of the volume. The 74.1 does have the DSS Serial number, but that is not sufficient to uniquely identify a volume in a shared Environme...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 4 Future consideration

Add hardware-level utilization information for PCIE cards

Copied from old SHARE Requirements system SSSHARE012857: Voting Priority=2.9 +4=2 +3=4 +2=9 +1=6 abstain=2 Priority=2.1 (Please ignore the other vote of 0.0) Currently, the RMF PCIE XML report provides information about the use of a PCIE card for ...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 4 Future consideration

Report on 1M vs 4K paging

Please consider separating reporting for 4K vs. 1M page frames. Today, the paging rates are expressed as 4K page equivalents, so when a 1M page comes in, that counts as 256. This distinction probably makes relatively little difference on the overa...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 3 Future consideration

Add Service Class to more RMF Records

RMF has always had serviceclass / workload Information in the 72 records. Now more and more records are added with job-Level Detail such as 74.2 XCF member activity and 77 Enqueue activity. To "connect" the jobnames from These records with workloa...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 4 Future consideration

Z/os memory usage by service class and report class

Have the RMF type 72 record include seperate fields for 4k frames, 1 MB frames and 2 GB frames used by that workload. These new fields would apply to service classes and report classes. RMF 3 STORF screen is too cumbersome to automate the capture ...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 2 Future consideration

Fix XCF message 'Job awaiting access to XCF data paths

The message 'Job awaiting access to XCF data paths' at RMF Job Delays panel, may not mean the job is really ran into delay awaiting access to XCF. It may be necessary to analize some others RMF panel details to find out if that message is related ...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 3 Future consideration

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