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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...
4 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 0 Under review

Create situation for ABENDCODE TEP´s Portal or Grafana GUI

We have 3 clients in Central America and there are more than 10 CICS partitions in use. The type of alarm or situation that needs to be created is based on Abend codes; search for a code and when it appears, trigger a situation. Currently, we have...
26 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 0 Under review

Enable Instana to Monitor and Visualize Specific CICS TS Component Sub‑Metrics via OMEGAMON Sensor

Request to extend Instana so it can surface detailed CICS TS sub‑component metrics—such as sockets, transaction classes, TDQs, TSQs, connection and file statuses, and memory usage—when these are provided by the OMEGAMON sensor. These metrics are a...
12 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 0 Under review

Add support for IMS explorer to use certificate/smartcard as login method toward IMS Connect

As an extension to IMSES-I-112 we also suggest adding certificate logon support for IMS Explorer and especially Transaction Test Project towards IMS Connect. This as a way to further improve user experience and security as clients then can use exi...
4 months ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 0 Under review

Add support for jwt between IMS Explorer Client and IMS Connect for Transaction Test Projects

When using for example OTP (one time password) as a method for MFA, that is a requirement in many organizations, to logon RSE etc. Each task/service require a separate logon with a separate OTP, some services does not even support OTP. As an examp...
4 months ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 0 Under review

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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

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...
8 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

Allow AAM to nullify EXPDT/RETPD

Files that do not get a DC and/or MC and are allocated with an expiration date cannot be deleted with normal BR14 MOD,DELETE or with IDCAMS DELETE without PURGE. This is the same functionality that this product replaces in our shop - Broadcom Allo...
3 months ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 1 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

IMS Connect support for NodeJS

NodeJS is currently supported by z/OS Connect. We would like the ability to communicate directly to IMS Connect from a NodeJS program using TMRA.
almost 8 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 2 Not under consideration