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Create CICS Situation that tracks the number of abends that occur in the region not number of dumps

This would be an ideal usecase to monitor a region based on number of transaction abends that occur in a region. Using the CHANGE parm you could monitor how many abends occur between sampling intervals and if it exceeds threshold set, send email a...
5 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

Support HTTPS Connection Between SMU and TEPS

SMU should use HTTPS/port 15201 instead of HTTP/port 15200 for connections to the TEPS.
over 1 year ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Future consideration

View or Print datasets of history (RKC2HIST) when CICS region is down

Now there is no possibility to view the dataset of the history when the CICS region is inactive. The request is to have the possibility from the TOM to read the history dataset even if the CICS region is inactive or to have an utility (from the TO...
9 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Display CEMT I MODE info (Max, Available, and Active sessions) in the Enhanced 3270

When trouble-shooting ISC connection issues, sys admins use the ISC Connection Detail panel (KCPCOND) to review sessions acquired and released. Sys admins also logon to the region and perform CEMT I MODE to get Max, Available, and Active session c...
10 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Fully automated Shutdown/IPL initiated from SMU

GDPS is able to control a fully automated Shutdown/IPL initiated from the GDPS control panel. We would like to the have the same functionality for non GDPS systems. The Operator should have the possibility to initiate and control the following act...
about 5 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

SMU and GDPS - Hardware Integration

When integrating HW views into SMU it would be good to have GDPS facilities integrated, also.
over 5 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Future consideration

SMU to operate with APIML

Launching SMU plug-in from ZOWE. We are running the SMU software as a Linux application in a z/OS Container Extension (zCX). The ZOWE software is running as a Started Task (STC) on a z/OS LPAR. We chose to do this to save on general purpose CPU M...
over 3 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

Task history collection filters to reduce/control collection.

Task history collection collects records for all task in the region. We want to be able to filter on what tasks are collected. and only collect the records for tasks that pass the filters setup for the region. The filters could be, but not limited...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Use of wildcards in the search option SMU

The use of wildcards in the search option of the SA widgets in SMU. Now you can only filter by default on the beginning of the name or you have to set all kinds of filters (e.g.: starts with and ends with).
almost 4 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

Perform ITM/Omegamon actions in SMU

It is useful to have a possibility to perform ITM actions (such as cancelling CICS transactions and DB2 threads) in SMU. Of course, this will then have to be done under the userid of the user, so that everything is neatly arranged via the existin...
over 3 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration