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BCP_Capacity Provisioning

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LP recommendations related messages showing on both observed and managed systems

Based on a previous customer request for enhancement: In CPM, when using the option of sending recommendations to the observed system’s CFZCIM, customers could benefit from another message, which confirms this was written to CPOSERV’s Joblog too. ...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Submitted

Management capabilities for CPM messages

Based on a previous customer request for enhancement: Clients use other products to control Defined Capacities, which produce separate WTO’s when actions are taken, making the CPM messages to be superfluous, needlessly filling the CPOSERV’s Joblog...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Submitted

New informational messages with options of being enabled/disabled

Based on a previous customer request for enhancement: Extending the generated CPM informational messages, and allowing them to be dynamically switchable in a similar fashion as via the “Planner.ExplanatoryActivationMessage” parm, and the CPO4444I ...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Submitted

Improve CPM LP handling to follow PR/SM best practices

Based on a previous customer request for enhancement: In CPM the current logic regarding “LP adds” and “LP removes” is unbalanced, and tends towards allowing systems to run with over-configured online LP counts. If PR/SM treats “LP’s Parked by Hip...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Submitted

Telum I/II monitoring/reporting/controls

Add mechanisms to control/limit what applications and workloads (NNDA flagged) will have access to Telum I/II accelerators in the machines. Controls could be done via HMC on a hypervisor level similarly to how processors assignments and weight dis...
7 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Future consideration

Dedicated (primary) and shared (secondary) group capping

As a MFaaS provider, we have had clients request a dedicated baseline of CPU capacity with the option of expanding beyond that baseline capacity as required and available. For example, a client may require 150 MSUs of GP capacity available at all ...
4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 1 Functionality already exists

Capacity Provisioning Manager Record Report Does Not show MSU Cost for Upgrades

When using the CPOSERV OOCUOD Record Report, CPM does not provide any indication whether an engine is banked. This report needs to display the MSU cost for each incremental upgrade where in the case of using OOCUOD to activate a banked engine, the...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Future consideration

Managing multiple CPM instances across multiple CECs & plexes

Allow CPM instances to communicate with each other to ensure only one instance per CEC is in Autonomic mode to remove the possibility of multiple instances from trying to activate capacity on the same CEC. Also, if the LPAR that is running the CPM...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Future consideration

We need enhancement to CPM(Capacity Provision manager) product to overcome limitations so it can be a fully usable product

We need enhancement to CPM(Capacity Provision manager) product to overcome limitations so it can be a fully usable product >CPM is unable to change the HMC values for weight and logical engines and we need this to be possible by the product >...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 5 Future consideration

Enhance Capacity Provisioning Manager to better handle 10 second and lower RMF Intervals

CPOSERV is unable to complete its observation cycle while monitoring multiple systems/sysplexes where some of those sysplex are set with an RMFIII MINTIME of 10 seconds or lower. There is a business requirement to have the RMF MINTIME set at 10 se...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 1 Future consideration

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