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My ideas: IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS

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Automatic RESTART of collections if current time is more than x hours away from the normal scheduled restart.

There are several collections that one can schedule .. for example RMM collections or Dataset Attributes collections... If the TEPS Started task has been restarted (due to an IPL for example), and the current time is AFTER the time set in the coll...
over 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 3 Delivered

scheduled task to send a report with a list of all Storage Groups and the Percent Used Space for them

scheduled task to send a report with a list of all Storage Groups and the Percent Used Space for them - I need list of all Storage groups send to Email with % free space as per schudele
over 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Reporting 1 Delivered

Listing GDG bases & their attributes on cluster level instead of dataset level

In the RDM (and in the TEP) we could see all GDG datasets with GDG level, Max Datasets in GDG, but it's not summarized by GDG BASE. Information on cluster level is not shown. It wil be helpful to see it on cluster level and it will help in better ...
over 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Reporting 2 Delivered

Omegamon wants ALTER rights to IXLSTR.SYSARC_HSMCR_RCL just to read.

Omegamon wants to only read (according to 22269,021,724) the HSM common recall queue, but wants alter rights (ICH408I attached below). Omegamon should use the appropriate level of access, read operations should only require read access. RACF messa...
almost 6 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 3 Delivered

Encryption Key Server

It would be nice to see if a data set is encrypted and the key server that controls it. This could be displayed in either the TEP/e3270 or in RDM.
about 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Client 2 Delivered

Enable automated expansion of a constrained SMS Storage Group

When an SMS storage group fulls up and efforts to free up disk space are not sufficient the next logical step is to add volumes to the Storage Group to increase its capacity. This is a multi step process which involves volume selection, conditioni...
about 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Delivered

Add CA Reclaim dataset attribute to DADB

Since the introduction of CA Reclaim a new data set attribute in the SMS Info category has been available displaying CA Reclaim status. The DADB collection in OMEGAMON does not capture this value. In addition this attribute flag should be availabl...
almost 5 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Delivered

Enable view persistence in OMEGAMON For Storage

The DADS should be a persistent structure that remains intact after a recycle of the TEMS. As views become more complex and require more resources to generate they should also have the ability to be persistent from session to session. In much the ...
over 3 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Delivered

Enhanced Toolkit Operation

OMEGAMON For Storage allows for many operations against managed data to be performed using the Storage Toolkit. Through the Toolkit z/OS Commands, TSO command and even Batch jobs can be generated with variable substitution and initiated through th...
over 3 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Seemless view of data from multiple sources

The DADS represents are repository of disk based datasets in the environment combined with associated data from the BCS. This facility needs to be enhanced to integrate data from the DFSMShsm inventory as well as the tape inventory allowing for se...
over 3 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Delivered

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