Aspects of the present invention include a method, system and computer program product. The method includes a processor determining one or more functional areas of focus for a profiling effort for the specific customer; determining one or more general functional areas of interest to the business entity and to a general set of customers; determining which environments and workloads of the specific customer to focus on in the profiling effort; determining data collection components of a platform for baseline environment and workload information for use in a data collection request for the specific customer; specifying any command and configuration data for the platform; specifying a baseline environment and workload data collection duration; and generating a data collection request for the specific customer that includes the baseline environment and workload data collection duration and time frames and the command and configuration data for the platform.
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