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RMF DDS support for SYSRTD

Bank of America and CDPz team request to retrieve the SYSRTD report from RMF DDS.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

RMF details about ECSA consuption by %MVS and VTAM address space

%MVS and VTAM represent one of the biggest consumers of ECSA memory, and as we often have shortage alerts, it would be interesting to know which processes are consuming more ECSA. With more details we could prevent system interruptions and transac...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / RMF 4 Not under consideration

RMFIII - Display needed to indicate %age of H/W Group Cap used

Hello IBM, As an example of what we'd like, please take case TS014739169 and also the description below - We have two LPARs in a H/W Cap Group (values taken from RMF PP H A R D W A R E G R O U P R E P O R T) HW GROUP PARTITION SYSTEM ------NAME CP...
7 months ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

Add fields SUMECTR, SUMECTRE, SYSECTVC and SYSECEVC to z/OSMF Resource Monitoring

Adding this metrics to Resource Monitoring allows by one hand to have access to metrics that does exist in RMFIII, easier to configure than RMF UTIL and allows system programmers to see statistics related to DDF transactions when high performance ...
8 months ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

Enhance RMF M3 filtering capability

Please provide a means in the RMF M3 enclave panel to filter on user id, similar to the existing capability to filter on service class.
about 4 years ago in z/OS / RMF 2 Future consideration

RMFIII WFEX in batch mode with longer time ranges from 7 to 30 days or more

WFEX (Work Flow Exception) is a performance tool that directly facilitates determination of causes/reasons for delays in workloads. However, the interactive facility on TSO has limitations, it only captures events interactively on short time range...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / RMF 12 Functionality already exists

Enhance the RMF Spreadsheet Reporter tool to use FTP/S (TLS) instead of plain old FTP

I would like to see the file transfer functions of the RMF Spreadsheet Reporter tool enhanced to use FTPS (FTP with TLS). I had not tried using it until recently. I learned that it would use FTP to transfer generated jobs to our z/OS systems and d...
9 months ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

Secure RMF CPC panel

We are looking for a supported way to secure the RMF CPC Capacity panel (ERB3BFI) to restrict access to technical support staff only (whilst allowing access to all other panels) I have not been able to find anything in manuals that describes a for...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

Include RMF field at PROCU Screen Monitor III and OMEGAMON

We are replacing our monitor by OMEGAMON and we are missing a field in RMF and OMEGAMON. We are using RMF PROCU (Processor Usage) screen and have the field Total CPU Time in mSec. We would like to suggest having more fields describing this CPU Tim...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / RMF 1 Planned for future release

RMF SR to support blanks in passphrase

RMF SpreadSheet Reporter should support blanks in passphrases. Currenlty, when we define a SYSTEM within RMF SR, we try to connect to the z/OS system and we use a RACF Passphrase that contains blanks, the connection from RMF SR to z/OS fails with ...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / RMF 1 Not under consideration