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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

Utility to list PA Alerts from repository

Please create a utility to list the records contained in the CICS Performance Analyzer Repository so that any changes to specific record types can be monitored for drift from a baseline.
over 7 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Simplify Omegamon security (RKANMODU) - only external

We have no need to use the old Classic Omegamon interfaces anymore, we only use the Enhanced 3270 and the TEPS for Omegamon monitoring. While all security is external (RACF) we have no need for the EXIT related old (internal) security implementati...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

CICS PA Submitting of HDB batch jobs

CICS PA for the HDB creation builds the job/s into a single job that has multiple jobs inside of that single job. That doesn't work well for production standards, where we have to execute jobs thru a scheduling tool. Would like to have that proces...
over 9 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Option to control resouce limiting for multiple regions from once OMEG Global member

With current feature of resource limit, we can't write separate resource limiting rules based on the region name if we use the same OMEG global member for multiple regions. Looking for an option that we can mention in resource limiting rules based...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

CICS PA Logger report enhancements.

We see CICSPA can read SMF-88 (Logger data). Redbook(Paper ) redp-3768 describes how SMF-88 and SMF-110 can be used together to tune the Logger files. While all these calculations can be manually done, we would like to know if CICSPA can be enhanc...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS PA needs improved messages related to dictionary processing

CICS PA needs provide more robust and detailed informational messages related to why the default dictionary record is chosen.
about 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Historical data tables have a unique index.

Historical tables created by Warehouse on DB2 zOS do not have a unique index. Making query performance worse. The idea is to create a unique index, such as a highly accurate writing timestamp, or sequential keys. Or even ensuring that the combina...
about 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 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/IMS TEP and e3270UI functions not available

Following on from the following PMRs (and others):17291,101,61617292,101,61617293,101,61638495,999,616we have the following requirements not currently provided: 1. How do we find the Application Support coded in the TEMS from either the TEP or e32...
over 6 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration