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IMS DB metrics support for anomaly detection

Add IMS DB metrics in Concert for Z, for anomaly detection using Machine Learning techniques
20 days ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

Concert for Z KPI for IMS

Would you add the following KPIs for IMS?Our customer is thinking to use IBM Concert for Z to detect the anomaly about the folloiwngs Response time for each IMS transaction Usage of buffer pool for each ones; DB buffer, PSB/DMB pool, DFSPOOL, ...
23 days ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

Add a 'TRACE_ID' field to OMEGAMON IMS ATF Summary and Detail Records

Please add a 'TRACE_ID' field to OMEGAMON for IMS ATF trace records (Summary and Detail) to facilitate Filtering query results to a particular trace definition.
about 2 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Under review

IBM Concert for Z Japanese panel support

Our customers want to have Japanese panels, such as report title, description, expert advice and help. Especially expert advice function is approved by many customers when they see the demo and they are also disappointed it is just in English only...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

Please add the batch program to send SMP/E information to IBM Concert for Z

Our customer wants to collect SMP/E information using the batch job to use IBM Concert for Z in the separate system from the target z/OS.
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

Please add the APAR list on APAR Management of IBM Concert for Z

Our customers want to have the panel for the followings. (1) HOLD Action description for the specific APAR (2) APAR lists which is required to apply by each LPAR To follow their current operation for APAR Management, they need these functions in a...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Planned for future release

Increase the imposed limit of 10,000 rows returned by Application Trace Facility (ATF) to a ‘User Defined’ limit in the Enhanced 3270 User Interface (e3270ui).

When displaying ATF data in a large IMS environment that processes thousands of transactions per second, the imposed e3270ui limit of 10,000 records is insufficient to return meaningful data. The customer should be allowed to increase this value a...
3 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Under review

Add CPU resource values to OMEGAMON for IMS Response Time Analysis (RTA) data.

When researching issues with the RTA feature of OMEGAMON for IMS it would be helpful if CPU metrics were included along with response time metrics to provide a more complete picture of the issue.
3 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Add IMS Transaction Queuing History to the list of available Historical items in OMEGAMON for IMS.

We have a need to view historical information for IMS Transaction Queuing. This information is available in real-time displays but not available to enable as a historical collection. Also, it would be useful to consider only collecting information...
3 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Ability to trigger a Situation by an event or message in realtime.

We would like to monitor IMS messages in RealTime and have the ability to trigger a Situation. As Situations run in intervals, we must be very lucky to catch a message exactly when the Situation run. It is possible to setup MSGTRAP, but only to hi...
8 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration