The JVM Verbose GC plugin is for the analysis of the verbose GC output generated by IBM JVM included in WebSphere Application Server (this plugin supports up to WebSphere version 8). The verbose GC output contains detailed information about the Java application's heap status and its garbage collection operations. With such information, this plugin is able to assist the analysis of many JVM heap usage problems. To start using this plugin, choose “JVM::VerboseGc” in the plugin selection dialog. A file open dialog would appear for you... [More]

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In performance testing, it is very common that the slow page is due to slow queries in database. We always need to review database snapshot got during the test.   Since DB2 V9.7 and later, DB2 published new MON_TABLE_ APIs and admin vies to monitor database performance.   While the output data is very dynamic and accurate in time, it is difficult to read and analyze . Bryan Tsai from Tivoli performance team developed a tool to view the output of some of the table functions ’ output, as well as snapshot output.   S teps to... [More]

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  Performance Analyst 1.1.0 has been released and is now available. This release contains several major improvement.  Some highlights include: New Oracle database snapshots (AWR reports) analysis. Improved WebSphere configuration checking, adding support for configuration of JDBC data source, SIB and JMS resource, WebSphere variables, and virtual hosts.  Added auto-updating of rule sets, making sure always using the latest and most accurate best practice and compliance checking rules. Added the exporting of HTML reports and CSV... [More]

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Performance Analyst 1.1.4 has been released to address a few issues since 1.1.2: Fixed the problem of exporting an empty HTML report. (1.1.3) Fixed a problem of saving environment profiles. (1.1.2) If you have encountered problems using environment profiles saved by version 1.1.2, it is recommended to recreate a new profile with version 1.1.4. Fixed a problem of generating compliance report in head-less mode. (1.1.2) Fixed a problem of failed uploading to SaaS version on Windows platform. (1.1.2) Unfortunately, the SaaS offiering is no longer... [More]

Performance Analyst 1.0.3 has been released and is now available. This release contains incremental improvement over 1.0.2. Some highlights include:   New IBM HTTP Server (IHS) and WebSphere plugin configuration checking. Improved IBM JVM verbose GC plugin. WebSphere version 8 is now supported, and the summary tab is enriched with more commonly used performance metrics. TPAe config plugin was improved to also include IHS and WebSphere plugin configuration checking. TPAe config plugin spider chart coloring scheme was refined. Refined the... [More]

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Performance Analysis Suite provides the performance best practice compliance checking for Maximo or TPAe based applications. With the new command line interface and report generation introduced sicne version 1.1.0 , it can be integrated into Maximo or TPAe based applications to achieve "continuous compliance checking". The integration can provide: Continuous performance compliance checking for Maixmo and TPAe based applications. Performance Analysis Suite is periodically launched by cron task instances configured in Maximo or TPAe... [More]

Performance Analyst 1.0.1 has been released and is now available. This release contains incremental improvement over 1.0.0. Some highlights include:   New Linux Configuration plugin. New TPAe diagnosis plugin. The original TPAe trace plugin has been improved. Save and Restore window state (workspace). Tired of waiting for importing the same large amount of data over and over? Now it's possible to save the loaded content for later analysis usage, without re-importing source data again! This is also handy for saving the collected configuration... [More]

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Performance Analyst 1.0.2 has been released and is now available. This release contains incremental improvement over 1.0.1. Some highlights include:   [DB2 snapshot plugin]: Added SQL formatter when double-clicking on column 'stmt_text'. [TPAe config plugin]: Now also include DB2/Oracle database object plugins. [Linux config plugin]: Added distro detection. [WebSphere config plugin]: Fixed several problems of error handling to make it more solid. Added a new export option: copy to clipboard. The active customization profile and active window... [More]

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This is an urgent fix release to address a crash issue found on Windows platform. All Windows users should get this new version.

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IBM Performance Analysis Suite v 1.1.4 (perfanalyst-1.1.4) on RHEL 7.3 Attempting to launch PerfAnalyst on Red Hat Linux 7.3 results in a a core dump / segmentation fault on start up. To work around this issue, please do the following: Download xulrunner from the below link and extract the file to /home/<user>/Applications/xulrunner... [More]