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Improve current KOBSZOS so that this panel can provide detailed monitoring and problem management capabilities

Currently KOBSZOS provides: LPAR, SMFID, Sysplex and System name(s), plus their Model & Serial number(s) and the VM User ID(s) (when applicable). This in no way helps to avoid outages, nor does it provide monitoring data as is claimed in the O...
over 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

z/OS Version in KOBSZOS view

Running different versions on lpars it would be helpful to have an overview about migration status. So we would like to have z/OS Version in the z/OS lpar overview (KOBSZOS). Please see an example attached. BR Andrea
over 3 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 3 Future 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.
over 14 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Omegamon z/OS - Sum of z/OS fields

We use some panels in Omegamon TEP to monitor our environment, specifically the CP consumption on our z14. We have a problem understanding the total machine consumption because the physical % CP and overhead % are separated and we can't put them t...
about 6 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 5 Future consideration

Omegamon for z/OS agent for JES

Provide the ability to monitor the JES environment, whether it be JES2 or JES3
over 12 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Omegamon xe on z/OS improve Soft Capping monitoring information

The information available within the SMF Record 70 Subtype 1 fields: SMF70NSW and SMF70NCA are not available at the related Omegamon on z/OS "System CPU Utilization" attributes group. These information collected and available at the RMF level can ...
almost 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Re-design of the OMEGAMON ICSF to support ICSF PAUSE function

The ptf UJ04367 will stop or reduce the number of KCG0080W messages under most circumstances, but it will not completely address the ICSF PAUSE scenario. So re-design of the OMEGAMON ICSF processing is required in order to completely support the I...
about 5 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Data-only space Commands in e3270ui

Classic Omegamon for zOS provides commands to display and modify data-only spaces. These commands are not available in the enhanced 3270 user interface. These commands are: OSPC, SCHN, SLST, SSCN, and SZAP These commands are very helpful for debug...
about 8 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

In OMPE v5.4, classic interface, having the ability to edit the Explain reports, for modifyng the text and rerun the Explain

With Omegamon for DB2 PE v5.40, with PWH configured, from classic interface, I can run Explain function of SQL text in thread active or in SQL cache. The customer requests the ability to edit EXPLAIN report, to correct the SQL query and rerun the ...
over 5 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

RMF CPC Report Retrieval Reliabilty Improvements

To obtain CPC-level metrics for all LPARs running on a CPC the OMEGAMON PlexView agent KM5PDAG issues a system level query that drives a system level agent (KM5LDAG) on an RTEMS selected from an internally built list of all M5 RTEMSs running on th...
almost 3 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration