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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 28, 2023

Provide new functionality to schedule the import of SMF data to the zNA database

Batch is the preferred method

provide the ability to invoke a batch job to import data into the zNA database, outside of zNA, that can be submitted manually or scheduled via a job scheduler or some other scheduled process (i.e., daily)

allow the batch import job to source from multiple SMF input files if necessary

setup the batch import job to load the zNA database via DB2 load instead of insert (see Idea ZOS-I-3581)

if batch import job can only be setup to do an insert, then make sure there is a way to set the frequency of commits (see Idea ZOS-I-3582)

barring all the above, provide an option in the zNA tool to schedule imports

Idea priority Medium