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My ideas: Monitoring

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Provide parameter like KM2_TIMEOUT (similar to KOB_TIMEOUT) to control idle session timeout for MVS Classic

Helps comply with site's audit requirement to cancel inactive sessions within x minutes.
16 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 1 Under review

Update code to allow SDA files in /kds/support/TEMS directory to be written with different permissions

By default, if the SDA process is unsuccessful, the intermediary SDA files are written with the 'Write' bit turned on in 'Other' class. As a result, we would like to request for an enhancement to the code where a parameter can be added so that cus...
about 2 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

Expand REST API functionality in order to obtain all situation statuses with historical data with a single query

Currently, the Rest API is not capable of bringing all historical data for all situations. Rest API can bring historical data to only one situation at a time by adding expand=true parameter. A suggestion would be to get all situation statuses with...
13 days ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

Eclipse interface for Omegamon CICS and CTG

Eclipse interface to Omegamon CICS and CTG would easier to navigate the Omegamon views; within one Toolkit. The CICS; CTG; CICS Omgamon; CTG Omegamon Plugins would be in the same desktop environment.
14 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Client 0 Under review

List Omegamon products and versions in Configuration Manager (like PARMGEN).

In PARMGEN, when selection option 3.1 (Set up/Refresh PARMGEN work environment), a list would be shown of all Omegamon products and versions installed in the selected target datasets. With Configuration Manager (CFM) there is no such list, and now...
about 1 month ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

In OMEGATOM v5.6, desire the Performance Summary History panel to have the ability to sort on region names

Desire the Performance Summary History panel to have the ability to sort on region names. Note the Region Summary Panel does have the ability to sort. Why useful-In our environment there will be 300+ regions. Need the sort to be able to effectivel...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 0 Under review

In OMEGATOM v5.6 the Performance Summary panel should show all regions, as OMEGAMON CU v5.3 did

Description-The number of regions listed on the Performance Summary panel does not match the total number of regions under the CICSPLEX Name on the All Active CICSplexes panel. Need to have all regions listed, not just the ones with active transac...
2 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 0 Under review

Enhance the Configuration Manager validation step to warn about undefined symbolics

With RTE_SYSV_SYSVAR_FLAG=Y, when a (user or system) symbolic is used in a &SYSNAME. configuration, and that symbolic is not defined in either the VAR$&SYSNAME. or as a system symbolic. Examples would be: RTE_TCP_PORT_NUM "&NONE_EXIST_...
3 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

Change KCIPARSE to use the Configuration Manager RTEDEF defined variables

When using RTE_SYSV_SYSVAR_FLAG=Y , variables can be defined as System variable, or they may be defined in the RTEDEF(VAR$GLOB) and/or RTEDEF(VAR$lpar) members. When running the Configuration Manager (CM) GENERATE action, variables defined by the ...
5 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review