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Upgrading the IBM OMEGAMON for 5G Networks, NVMe over TCP/IP

1- Adding the following functionalities to the OMEGAMON functionalities: A- 5G / VNF Networking Functionalities B- NVMe over TCP/IP functionalities 2- Adding the Advanced Functionalities of the following: A- Intel IPU (Infrastructure Processing un...
over 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Support for SSH Monitoring

SSH has recently become part of the operating system as of z/OS 2.2. SSH provides a secure form of remote connection to systems and/or appliances. Omegamon for Mainframe Networks does not currently provide monitoring support specifically for SSH.
over 8 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Enterpise_Networks allow change of defalt filters

Allow a way to customize the built-in filters within the workspaces in the Enterpise_Networks navigator view.Any attempt to modify by creating custom views or queries within Enterpise_Networks breaks the unique and simple way of navigating between...
over 4 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

New function in Omegamon MFN to inspect active connections for performance

The current release of Omeagmon MFN has great data on a connection, but unless you are familiar with the Session performance metrix, there is still alot of research required to debug performance issues on a connection. With NMI Trace data added it...
about 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Add Batch report function for OMEGAMON XE for Networks

Please provide the function to make the batch report for OMEGAMON XE for Networks, without SAS and TEPS.
about 7 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

z/OS sftp Monitoring

sftp on z/OS monitoring similar to how MFN monitors FTP running on z/OS Communication Server. Although Communications Manager does not support sftp though the NMI API, since sftp creates SMF 119-96 records, it might be possible for MFN to leverage...
over 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Multi-Page tables in OMEGAMON for MFN V5.11 in TEP Enterprise_Networks views TEP have usability and performance issues.

With OMEGAMON for MFN V5.11 the new Enterprise_Networks navigator view has a few mulit-page tables that can be mostly blank because of were the filtering is done.This creates usability and performance issues.All Filters should be done in a custom ...
almost 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Resetting counter from NMI

Omegamon Mainframe Network has many fields that counters start when TCPIP starts. these counters come from the NMI and can be quite large over time between IPL's. The need for a comand fly over reset process would provide better views of key issue...
about 12 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Need on demand data collection

For some if not all data that can be displayed, being able to get it when a workspace is opened or refreshed would help with problem determination. I want to see what the values are now rather than on a polled interval.
over 13 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 7 Not under consideration

Count number of times an application has rejected connections

Omegamon MFN has a good count on how many Connection rejects a TCPIP application has, and the time stamp is the last time a reject occurred. but if an application is having constaint issues a count of how many times the application rejected sessio...
over 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration