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Comparison, to show volumes not included

Kyndryl for Poste Italiane would like to set up an alert system to detect existing volumes that are not part of SMS copy pools. Due to configuration errors, they had a major production outage in April. Since it's not something that OMEGAMON for St...
4 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Needs more information

IBM z Omegamon for Storage missing capabilities

Poste Italiane, the official Postal Office in Italy, but also a Bank, an Insurance company, and a Telephone provider, is missing the following capabilities for the mentioned software in the subject: Information on catalogs is missing: several exte...
7 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Choice of view-level Page size for ALL workspaces as opposed to setting/resetting it for each Workspace

Currently each Workspace has the View-level page size at a default of showing 100 rows; you can reset that to ALL ROWS (or another number of rows) for each workspace. In our environment we would like to have the option to change that default setti...
over 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 4 Functionality already exists

USER DASD consists of multiple SMS Storage Groups but when you drill down, it's showing volumes of those SMS Storage Groups... Would like to show SMS Storage groups before going to the individual volumes.

When you define USER DASD groups (e.g. DATABASES), you can add that USER group by defining specific (or multiple SMS Storage Groups) that would make up that USER DASD group. Drilling down into the USER DASD group, it then shows the individual volu...
almost 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Create SYSplex level view in OMEGAMON For Storage

All of the default workspaces provided by OMEGAMON For Storage appear at the LPAR level in the navigator, but several of the objects monitored by OMEGAMON For Storage are common to all LPARs in a SYSplex. OMEGAMON For Storage should provide SYSple...
almost 5 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

OXES should have log scanning and filtering capability

Logs from z/OS, DFSMShsm and even DFSMSrmm can be a valuable resource to the storage administrator. OMEGAMON For Storage should be able to process a log with user defined filters to isolate certain error or operational events. Information from the...
over 3 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Toolkit to allow for JCL distribution to multiple agents

The OMEGAMON Toolkit allows for storage administrators to create all variety of jobs or commands, launch them to the operating environment and review the results. Administrators of very large environments often need to direct these jobs or command...
over 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 4 Functionality already exists

Don't report all the Storage Group and all the volumes with VTOC Index Disable

when there are some volumes under different Storage Group have VTOC Index Disable problem,it donn't provide any attribute group or attribute items that could report all the Storage Group and all the volumes through EIF.
about 7 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Functionality already exists

Display DS8K port speeds in MEGATON XE For Storage

OMEGAMON XE For Storage should display configured port speeds as part of the information provided in the TotalStorage support for DS8K. When trying to determine cause and resolution for performance issues it would be good for clients to be able to...
about 8 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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