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IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS

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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 ...
8 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Monitoring of Central Storage Frames having information of program name

We would like to have the information of program name in view that shows Central Storage Frames usage by a job batch. This because we have a monitoring to alarm when a job consumes more than a threshold of Central Storage Frames but in case of exe...
over 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Known ENQ conflict overrides possible other important conflicts in LPAR overview

we are running a z/OS sysplex with 2 systems. There a software uses an ENQ mechanism to control that only one instance of a STC is active. Since this ENQ is activated while IPL, it's always the one with the longest possible enqueue wait time, but ...
about 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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 ...
4 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Sysplex proxy designation in a larger Omegamon environment

An Omegamon RTEMS requirement is that the Plexview and Sysplex proxy TEMS should be at the highest maintenance level in the z/OS Sysplex environment. But because the first RTEMS available in a Sysplex is automatically made the Sysplex (and possibl...
almost 3 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

LOGICAL PROCESSORS EFFECTIVE value to be reported by Omegamon

My Team receive alerts when CF CPU Busy times reaches a determined threshold. After Upgrade from z12 to z14, with option DYNDISP=THIN, we noticed a very considerable increase in the CPU consumption of shared CF processor.With THIN option, processo...
over 6 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

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
7 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Have Omegamon for z/OS show JES2 spool details for multiple JES2 subsystems

We have a number of LPARs running more than one JES2 subsystem. Currently we can only setup alerts (example: Spool reaching x% full) for the primary JES2 subsystem. The other JES2 subsystem(s) are invisible in Omegamon for z/OS and so no alert can...
over 2 years 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...
8 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

z/OS Version in KOBSZOS view

Running different versions on lpars it would be helpful to have an overview about migration status. So we would like to have z/OS Version in the z/OS lpar overview (KOBSZOS). Please see an example attached. BR Andrea
over 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 3 Future consideration