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ITM ICAT enhancement – ICAT is lengthy and cumbersome

ITM ICAT enhancement – ICAT is lengthy and cumbersome. ITM enhancement - Edited for clarity and spelling. This needs significantly more specifics about what is wrong with ICAT and what improvements are requested. This may be a moot point in the fa...
almost 13 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Delivered

Validate console command based on OPERCMDS access

Hi, Omeg MVS is a powerfull tool. I think a great enhancement should be implemented to improve its security. We have to comply to many laws and everything turns around security, resources access... For example, our console operators loggued to the...
over 13 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Delivered

Network Extended navigator View included as part of OMEGAMON for MFN

The Network Extended Navigator View Should be shipped as part of OMEGAMON for MFN. Currently it is only available though a manual download from ISM (opal).
almost 12 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Delivered

FTP Session Monitoring for Connect Enterprise FTP Server ports not available

Need the ability to capture from Connect Enterprise defined port assignments (my PMR addressed 5565 to a specific LPAR but really should be any other than port 21 since we don't have native FTPs) for either Server or Client: 1) Failed FTP sessions...
over 9 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / API 2 Delivered

Provide a checkbox to NOT show IBM transactions

A feature I'd like to see is the ability (via a check box probably) of NOT showing IBM transactions in the PA plugin view. This is an issue in CICS Explorer (at least to me) as well. I am using the HDB currently in CICS EXplorer with the plugin. T...
about 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

Provide CPU Totals on CICS PA MQ reports

Update CICS PA so the MQ reports provide a single value which gives the transaction's total CPU time spent within MQ
about 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Allow non display of rows in PA views by mask

It would be beneficial to us to be able to then filter by “only show transactions where say the Response Time Average is > than some value”. This type of functionality could apply to other columns in the tabular view (or maybe to only certain c...
about 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

CICS PA v3.2 LISTX report TRANFLAG abnormal termination bit

CICS PA does not have the capability of producing a report containing a list of all SMF110 performance records that have abnormally terminated, as recorded within TRANFLAG (DFHTASK_164) byte 5 bit 7 which is set on abnormal termination. IBM APAR P...
over 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

New facility for managing (removing) data loaded to CICS PA DB2 tables

CICS PA has facilities to load data to DB2 tables from HDBs, but there are no facilities to remove or manipulate the loaded data. Specifically for the Explorer HDB/DB2 tables the product needs to have a mechanism to remove data from the DB2 data a...
over 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS Explorer plugin needs the Top 20 type view

In order to quickly look at the previous days worst performing transactions (response times, # tcb switches etc), the Explorer plugin needs to have that capability.
over 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 8 Delivered