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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

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

Add Execution Velocity metric with history support to LPAR-Level Table KM5WLMCLRX for z/OS

We would like to request an enhancement to OMEGAMON for z/OS to include the Execution Velocity metric in the LPAR-level table KM5WLMCLRX, along with support for history collection. Currently, Execution Velocity is only available in real-time at th...
8 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Omegamon to display CPU utilization relative to weight

Would be possible to include on Omegamon for z/OS (e3270gui/TOM), a panel with a clear display of percentage CPU utilization by each LPAR relative to the CEC capacity (all partitions stack to a total of 100%) and the percentage relative to the LPA...
over 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Omegamon to show memory CEC Capacity

Would be possible to include on Omegamon for z/OS (e3270gui/TOM), the total existent memory amount (capacity) for the CEC ? For example: CEC1 has 1TB of memory, where LPAR-A is allocating 256 GB and LPAR-B is allocating 256GB. In this case we woul...
over 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Omegamon to display (VFM) Virtual Flash Memory on CEC level

Would be possible to include on Omegamon for z/OS (e3270gui/TOM), the total existent Virtual Flash Memory (VFM) amount for the CEC ? A panel sumarizing the capacity, and the allocation for each LPAR. For example: CEC1 has 1TB of VFM, where LPAR-A ...
over 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Omegamon to display VH, VM and VL

After IPLs, OOCoD, CBUs, planned or unplanned weight or logical processors changes, it's necessary to double check the number of current number of CPs Vertical High, Vertical Med and Vertical Low. Would be possible to include on Omegamon for z/OS ...
over 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Additional fields for MIPS and MSU's on one screen and Job Class

Kyndryl client Sagent Lending is converting from Mainview and they need these requirements to manage their LoanServ app and client requirements
over 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Improve timing and history collection of Z/OS Omegamon

We have an open case TS015680477 about a collection problem that we are having for history data in Z/OS omegamon when we use the data to visualize, it is configured at the customer's request to collect every 1 minute, this is causing a problem of ...
over 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Improve current KOBSZOS so that this panel can provide detailed monitoring and problem management capabilities

Currently KOBSZOS provides: LPAR, SMFID, Sysplex and System name(s), plus their Model & Serial number(s) and the VM User ID(s) (when applicable). This in no way helps to avoid outages, nor does it provide monitoring data as is claimed in the O...
over 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration