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IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS

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We have needs to relocate an Omegamon Hub from a Windows Server to the Mainframe - migration docs should be offered

Hello, no proper migration docs are available for Hub migration from one system to another (in our case from Windows to Mainframe).Problems arose during the migration of managed systems, groups and situations, so that information that had not been...
5 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Omegamon for z/OS needs to adjust the skip&count formula

The Omegamon for z/OS skip&count formula being used to determine which TCPIP port various Omegamon components bind to needs to be adjusted so the range of ports selected are in a more refined group of ports instead of spread out across the 65K...
over 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Design an easier way to send IBM E3270UI program check data

Currently when the E3270UI takes a program check, the PC data is displayed on-screen, and thus the user is forced to create a screen shot and attached it to a case. For both the users and IBM, issue reporting would be much easier, if E3270UI progr...
7 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow suppression of 'F'alse alerts from Situations.

As documented for Tivoli/Omegamon situation alerts:https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/om-shared?topic=tos-how-write-message-console-situation "The message is produced when the situation is true (T) or false (F)." We would like an option to supress the 'F...
9 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow Enhanced 3270 users to, beside Situations, also see Workflow Policies

When Workflows policies are used for Situations which go True, and these policies perform certain actions (commands). Then E3270UI users are left very confused about these actions as they can only see the Situation trigger, not the Workflow policy...
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Historical data tables have a unique index.

Historical tables created by Warehouse on DB2 zOS do not have a unique index. Making query performance worse. The idea is to create a unique index, such as a highly accurate writing timestamp, or sequential keys. Or even ensuring that the combina...
12 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Simplify Omegamon security (RKANMODU) - only external

We have no need to use the old Classic Omegamon interfaces anymore, we only use the Enhanced 3270 and the TEPS for Omegamon monitoring. While all security is external (RACF) we have no need for the EXIT related old (internal) security implementati...
over 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow the E3270UI to add CICS regions to a MSL ahead of time, that is when the CICS region has never yet run.

New CICS region(s) cannot be added into any Managed System List (MSL) until the HTEMS is aware of the CICS region(s), aka the CICS region has to run for a while, connect to the TEMA and HTEMS before the CICS region name is shown and can be added t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Omegamon WTO messaging

Be able to send zOSWTO messages to a specific LPAR in a SYSPLEX.
over 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Not under consideration

RFE PARMGEN – Linklist library

To be possible PARMGEN allocate and populate a new library for using (concatenated) in LNKLST (z/OS parmlib). Almost of the customers refuse to use RKANMOD because the number of members and create a new LOADLIB and copy de necessary modules for us...
over 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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