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Add VOLUME(xxxx) support in KN3TCPMO member

For uncataloged TCP/IP profile data sets in TCPIP, which are there concatened with a vol-ser entry, do we need a volume parameter in KN3TCPMO member. The Configuration Manager/PARMGEN parameter can be: KN3_TCPX01_TCPIP_PROFILES_VOL
5 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for Networks 0 Future consideration

Add jobid to the M5ASCPUTLH table and then displayed in KM5ASP5H workspace

To make it easier to find jobs with same job name in Omegamon history, it would be very helpful to have jobid added to M5ASCPUTLH table and display in KM5ASP5H workspace.
about 2 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Omegamon USS metrics without root privileges

The Omegamon TEMS STC requires USS root privileges to gather z/OS UNIX metrics.Giving root privileges to any service is an unnecessary security risk.To solve this security issue, Omegamon could use UNIXPRIV or another form of security delegation t...
2 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Customer AI Use Case - Improving OMEGAMON AI for z/OS to detect anomalies of Bad Capping impacting online workloads

Alerting on significant divergence of CPU consumption per Capping Group to detect potential bad capping leading to interference with the transactional workload. Context : System Engineers generally have hundreds of workloads to monitor and applyin...
3 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add a customer configurable variable to Enhanced 3270 User Interface - Top Consumers Workspace (KM5TOPC) to allow more than '10' top consumers per category.

In a large environment, there may be cases where the customer needs to see more than just the Top '10' Consumers of a particular category. When the Top Consumer list is presented, the first 10 in the list may be vital processes that are working as...
3 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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 Future consideration

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

Expand REST API functionality in order to obtain current situation status (Sampled and Pure) querying End Point api/v1/situations/status

Currently, the Rest API is capable of bringing all historical data for all situations, Sampled and Pure. Currently, querying End Point api/v1/situations/status, we get data only about alerts generated by Sampled Situations We’d like to get data al...
5 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Make KM5_BPXSUPERUSER available in Configuration Manager

Parameters that customers should be available to customize must be working & accessible in the RTE definition. Creating several places to add settings for the configuration will lead to errors and are not customer friendly. There for KM5_BPXSU...
5 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 0 Future consideration