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IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS

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Maximum size of HLQ.RKC2HIST limited to 4 GB

The Poste Italiane customer processes millions of transactions at hour and the history RKC2HIST dataset of 4 GB the depth of the historical data on the most important CICS is only 2 hours. The customer would like to be able to allocate the dataset...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Under review

Allow quick navigation in E3270UI by overtyping CICSPlex and Region name

In some E3270UI workspaces you can overtype the CICSPlex and Region name to allow you to quick navigate to data about other regions. This is not universally true, and on such case is the task history workspace (KCPTASH). Could you please add this ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / All components 0 Under review

Display Origination APPLID in Task History screen (KCPTASH)

In a complex CICS environment where hundreds of regions route workload dynamically with CPSM things get hard to track where work came from. CICS provided a SMF field OAPPLID to tell us where the current transaction originated from. Can you please ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 1 Under review

Repair Utility of ONDV file on CICS Transaction history

OMEGAMON CICS is able to store CICS Transaction History in file. For example,<ONLINE_VIEWER> DATA_STORE_TYPE=FILEOCMP DATA_STORE_FILE_NAME=OMEGA.V551.*.RKC2HIST It is working fine while it is running on Product Data center. But, when Disaste...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Under review

Display dataspaces alloacte for region

In the classic interface under U.K we could see the size of the dataspace allocation for the region. I did not see this facility in the E3270. For tracking the growth and managing the size of our utilization of data tables to is very important to ...
2 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Under review

Dynamic facility to re-order columns on summary screens

When dealing with Summary screens, to reorder the screen or add/remove columns from the screen requires that we edit the workspace in the WENU, which is difficult and affects all users of the system. We would like the ability to change column orde...
2 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / All components 0 Under review

Increase OMEGAMON/CICS online statistics limitation

Currently, OMEGAMON/CICS has limitation on online historical statistics is 4GB is the maximum per CICS region. In the growing of online CICS transactions, this limitation does not allow our OEMGAMON/CICS to have over 1 working day's transaction hi...
4 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Display OMEGAMON Global Data Area startup options in the Enhanced 3270

CICS administrators logon to the Omegamon (classic) and use command GLOB GLOB to verify that each CICS regions is using the correct Global Data Area startup options. If the Enhanced 3270 was able to display the Global Data Area options, these admi...
6 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Provide workspace to see transaction summary activity for whole CICSPlex in one screen

In very large institutions it's hard for people to see a enterprise-wide view of what is happening in CICS and the whole CICSplex. We are asking for a summary screen / workspace much like the FIND ACTIVE workspace, but with summary data as I will ...
7 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Omegamon CICS should monitor CMAS regions

We have needs to monitor CMAS regions the same way as other CICS regions (including Near-Tearm History). Please consider in future releases.
8 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration