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Created by Guest
Created on Jan 28, 2016

Add bulk processing to HWIQUERY for activation/load profiles in zEC12 and up

Expand the BCPii "bulk processing" improvements for HWIQUERY in z/OS 2.1 to retrieving the activation and load profile attributes (HWI_IMAGE_ACTPROF and HWI_LOAD_ACTPROF).

This is in conjunction with the BCPii RFE#83196, as I understand the limitation is both in the software and hardware.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Feb 2, 2016

    We are providing this support - Performance enhancements for SNMP/BCPii will be realized by allowing query or set operations for multiple attributes and/or category based attributes via new HwmcaEnhancedGet and HwmcaEnhancedSet API interfaces. Previously, an individual API request was required for each attribute being acted upon. Additionally, a single interface attribute was limited to a single LPAR, but now a single attribute query or update API can be sent to multiple LPARs.

    In addition, a new SE task will be provided to better understand what BCPii requests are being made to the a SE. For BCPii there could be multiple sources of applications making BCPii requests to the SE, and this task will provide a summarized view of historical data for the customer to better understand the source, frequency, and interactions of the BCPii initiated requests. This will allow the customer to potentially tune the application requests of the multiple BCPii requesters to work towards a better performance model for their BCPii request environment. If you need more details or this doesn't answer your request, please let me know.

  • Guest
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    Jan 29, 2016

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #83197 in product z Systems Hardware.