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IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS

Create ONDV (Task History) equivalent in OMEGAMON for CTG.

Now the historical collection on CTG transactions activity (Active Transactions Summary and Active Transactions Detail) activate from TEP or E3270 is a snapshot every 30 seconds and not all transactions that are executed are collected in the histo...
6 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality Not under consideration

Idea is to have the current value and the threshold value in the OC8900, OC8902 or OC8903 messages when they are triggering the events.

It will be useful to know the actual value at the time of the issue which will help everyone to understand the situation at that point of time when we have an email notification email/alert. we are expecting the values in the N/A > N/A. This wi...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Messages Not under consideration

Add certificate value to TCPIPS display

The customer would like us to show the Certificate for any TCPIPs that is using one. This will need a new attribute and as such a FixPack, but it is a manageable enhancement which would likely be accepted.
10 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / All components Not under consideration

Direct Commands to Resource Workspaces

Since TOM has command line, it would be beneficial to navigate to specific resource workspace for desired region (for example command “TCPIP CICD5501” would navigate to TCPIP Service Overview workspace for region CICD5501).
10 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / All components Not under consideration

Eclipse interface for Omegamon CICS and CTG

Eclipse interface to Omegamon CICS and CTG would easier to navigate the Omegamon views; within one Toolkit. The CICS; CTG; CICS Omgamon; CTG Omegamon Plugins would be in the same desktop environment.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Client Not under consideration

Option to control resouce limiting for multiple regions from once OMEG Global member

With current feature of resource limit, we can't write separate resource limiting rules based on the region name if we use the same OMEG global member for multiple regions. Looking for an option that we can mention in resource limiting rules based...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality Not under consideration

IBM z Omegamon for CICS missing capabilities

Poste Italian, an Italian Bank postal office, but also a bank, telephone provider and insurance company, was complaining about the following bullets below: In the KCPTASHP view, the “Programs” section includes a list of the routines called by each...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / All components Not under consideration

Repair Utility of ONDV file on CICS Transaction history

OMEGAMON CICS is able to store CICS Transaction History in file. For example,<ONLINE_VIEWER> DATA_STORE_TYPE=FILEOCMP DATA_STORE_FILE_NAME=OMEGA.V551.*.RKC2HIST It is working fine while it is running on Product Data center. But, when Disaste...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality Not under consideration

In OMEGAMON/Classic, it is nice to have a ZOOM function of the trace entry to view the elements of trace function

CICS systems programmers can verify more details of that issue if they need. This is certainly a betterment of quality of support for any datacenter.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality Not under consideration

External security manager (ESM) should be the only way to secure the product. The internal security feature should not be provided as default. The product should not be operative without any security.

It will help ensure our mainframe sites must comply with the internal security audit standards.
about 4 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Installation Not under consideration