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IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS

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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...
almost 6 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Enabel the EPILOG in OMEGAMON z/OS in the future

Hi support, In the PID - 5698-T01 , the lastest version in OM-z/OS V550, withdrew the EPILOG support from V530. In the document, the alternately method - RMF III near term history is instead. But we found the RMF III report only get the SYSTEM lev...
11 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 3 Not under 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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support VTAM generic resources function to allow a balanced increase of concurrent users in e3270

The theoretical maximum number of concurrent users on e3270ui is 99. However, depending on storage layout, and constraints, the actual maximum number is lower (around 50-70). This limit may occasionally be too low. In particular, in the test/devel...
about 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

OMEGAMON XE password length

US DOD Auditor are requiring all DOD servers to use. passwords greater than 8 characters long, mixed case and all special characters. OMEGAMON XE for z/os and MVS doesn't support pass phrase therefore we cannot meet the US DOD auditors requirements.
about 13 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 4 Not under 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...
over 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Information % of step CPU limit used in TEPS

We monitor the % of step CPU limit used by a job, configuring PSCU exception. It warns when any address space uses up more than nn% of the CPU time allowed in the current job step (where nn is the threshold for this address space). This helps us ...
over 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Omegamon for z/OS Address Space CPU Utilization to include all GCP CPU only

We are migrating from the ASG TMON Product Suite to the Omegamon Performance Suite and are busy creating the TEP workspaces and situations similar to what we had automated in the TMON Product sets. We added a Workspace called Address Space Overvie...
over 3 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Omegamon for z/OS agent for JES

Provide the ability to monitor the JES environment, whether it be JES2 or JES3
over 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under 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 ...
8 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration