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Batch Interface (JCL/REXX) for OMEGAMON z/OS

Current OMEGAMON functionality is primarily accessible through interactive interfaces such as TSO/ISPF panels and TEPS GUI. While these interfaces are suitable for real-time monitoring and manual operations, they do not support integration with st...
3 days ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS Submitted

Use the NMI Interface for Faster TCP/IP Tracing and Wireshark Export

Enhance IBM OMEGAMON for Networks to use the NMI interface for real-time TCP/IP tracing, allowing users to view trace data live while the trace is running and export the results for analysis in Wireshark. This capability would provide a faster alt...

Real-Time Socket-Level TCP/IP Connection Statistics in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks

Enhance IBM OMEGAMON for Networks to provide near real-time, socket-level TCP/IP connection statistics with refresh intervals of approximately one second, or the ability to manually refresh statistics by pressing Enter on a specific socket or conn...

Include/Expand JES2 Resource Monitor Metrics and MAS Members Information into Omegamon z/OS

Currently the only resource monitored from JES2 Subsystem is the Spool.There are many other important resources to be monitored for the JES2 Subsystem that are not available in Omegamon z/OS such as JNUM, JOES, JQES only to name a few.Also the MAS...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS Under review

Per IBM Case TS021918218, Add functionality/situation variable to allow Omegamon/ZOS to alert on JES Job Queue length when reaches customizable threshold

All customers running ZOS run batch jobs - usually mission critical and time critical. The days when operations teams monitor JES job queues 7x24 minute by minute are gone. This idea is to request that when JES job queues backup, alerting and auto...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS Under review

Provide new functionality to allow for composite actions within customized situation actions tab

We are in the midst of a TMON to Omegamon migration. TMON product provides capability to perform multiple actions when exception condition occurs - for example send a WTO and issue a system command. IBM Z Omegamon (all products) does not allow for...
28 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS Under review

Add in RLIM the TDQ resource

Added resource on TDQ queue write in resource limiting for automatic kill task cancellation when threshold is exceeded
about 1 month ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality Future consideration

Enable Instana to Monitor and Visualize Specific CICS TS Component Sub‑Metrics via OMEGAMON Sensor

Request to extend Instana so it can surface detailed CICS TS sub‑component metrics—such as sockets, transaction classes, TDQs, TSQs, connection and file statuses, and memory usage—when these are provided by the OMEGAMON sensor. These metrics are a...
2 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality Under review

Create situation for ABENDCODE TEP´s Portal or Grafana GUI

We have 3 clients in Central America and there are more than 10 CICS partitions in use. The type of alarm or situation that needs to be created is based on Abend codes; search for a code and when it appears, trigger a situation. Currently, we have...
3 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality Under review

Allow creating groupings by a tag or label

Due to the enormous number of CICS regions/JVMServers, it is extremely difficult to easily and quickly locate/view specific information during the analysis process using the E3270UI interface.Therefore, we understand that the possibility of groupi...
8 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM Future consideration