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IBM SCRT Ideas Portal


This is the public portal to submit private (visible only to you and IBM) ideas for the IBM Z Systems Sub-Capacity Reporting Tool (SCRT). To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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SCRT Section I5 is useless for HW TFP if Flexible Capacity is used togehter with HW TFP

SCRT Section I5 was designed to report HW TFP. Now, if you have Flexible Capacity with z17 and HW TFP it's completly useless: It doesn't report the peak into the corridor, it reports that the MSU limit ALWAYS was exceeded because it reports the Fl...
6 months ago in  0 Future consideration

SCRT should be changed to honor AbsoluteGroupCapping / AbsoluteCapping setup on the HMC

We've licenced HW TFP. To prohibit to peak into the TFP corridor, we set up AbsoluteGroupCapping on the HMC for a Capacity Group that includes all LPARs on the CEC to limit the number of CPs used. This was fine for 3 months. Afterwards we recogniz...
over 1 year ago in  1 Future consideration

Provide Object Format for SCRT Tool

Currently, SCRT Tool provides the report in a CSV format that requires any consumer to understand the context of each row of data. This makes pulling out individual pieces, and processing the report without a substantial amount of bespoke code, no...
almost 4 years ago in  0 Future consideration

Provide a "Mobile Workload Pricing Defining Program" Product ID for use with Mobile Workload Pricing (MWP) for z/TPF.

I hope this is the correct platform to ask for this enhancement.I'm using IBM's scrt-29-1-1 document here as a reference.As per the aforementioned document, MWP data can be provided to the SCRT package through the INPUTCSV DD statement. When the d...
over 3 years ago in  0 Not under consideration