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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 13, 2023

zOSMF Network Analyzer Performance Improvement

When importing 'large' SMF datasets with ~200m records, the zOSMF NCA Java reads all records to filter filter Type 119 records relevant. In sample this are around 2m records. This process runs for more than 4h (wasting CPU resources), which is very inefficient. This zOSMF NCA Java application should call IFASMFDP and DUMP only records 119, and then read only the data from that temporary dataset.

As the dump with the IFASMFDP only takes 2minutes to run and the import with the filtered file is processed within minutes instead of many hours!

zOSMF NCA cannot assume that the provided dataset only contains 119 records, hence a filtering with a temporary dataset dumped with IFASMFDP would accelerate this process extremely!

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Jan 27, 2023
    This item is unlikely to be given high enough priority to be placed into product plan.
  • Guest
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    Jan 25, 2023

    A direct load via DB2 LOAD utility would be much appreciated as well as this would accelerate the load process even further.