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allow more than 1 DASD to be specified in RTE_PDS2_VOLUME for PDSV2 datasets

The current RTE_PDS2_VOLUME parameter only allows "ONE" VOLSER to be specified as the target DADS for allocating PDSV2 datasets. But, (1) not all customers are using SMS to allocate PDSV2 datasets (2) in case if customer installs a full suite of Z...
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Provide Alert capability in Omegamon/IMS Classic for TPIPE QCT

The current alert facility in Omegamon/IMS Classic does not have the capability to inform a user that a particular TPIPE has something queued in it. The QCT field in the /DIS TMEMBER TPIPE command is what we want to be trapped and reported on.
over 4 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Adding options NOSECEXIT and NORELINK to GENERATE action

We are using the IBM z Monitoring Configuration Manager to create our OMEGAMON runtime environments overall our customer environments. Since our OMEGAMON signon modules and security exits come into the systems via a centralized route, we need a wa...
9 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Monitor BMP Checkpoint rate

We would like to be able to set a situation i Omegamon that becomes true when the checkpoint rate for a BMP exceeds the number of checkpoints per second for a given value. In the attribute group for Dependent Regions there is only BMP Checkpoint C...
over 5 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Other 0 Future consideration

Improved security

Any one that has implemented security doesn't run STC with uid 0. Omegamon should not try to open security holes for exploit
10 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Have Omegamon for z/OS show JES2 spool details for multiple JES2 subsystems

We have a number of LPARs running more than one JES2 subsystem. Currently we can only setup alerts (example: Spool reaching x% full) for the primary JES2 subsystem. The other JES2 subsystem(s) are invisible in Omegamon for z/OS and so no alert can...
over 3 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Have the ability in Configuration Manager to build the work (WK) datasets ahead of time

Currently Configuration Manager only creates the new STC procs, VTAMLST members, DB2 bind JCL, etc. during the GENERATE step. In larger environments, often different people/groups need to perform different tasks, example the network person/group d...
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

CICS PA SIIS Usage removal

Hello, For an Healthcheck study, we were investigating SIIS activity in our systems. You can see IBM documentation realted to SIIS from the links given below. We realized that while CICSPA batch jobs were running the SIIS indicator exceed %10 whic...
over 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Parmgen enhancement for OMEGAMON XE z/OS 5.3, XE CICS 5.3, PE for DB2 5.3, MQ 7.3 etc.

RFE for Parmgen OMEGAMON XE z/OS 5.3, XE CICS 5.3, PE for DB2 5.3, MQ 7.3 etc.: We have several user modified members in different libs which we always have to take care not to overwrite them by parmgen.Most customized members are in RKANPARU or R...
over 9 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 3 Future consideration

Provide Liberty level details of z/OS Connect address space – related to connection pool usage point

Require the ability to monitor the connection pools (session usage, free/in use/waiting) by individual connection name, in order to identify resource usage for problem determination and increase in traffic/usage. This will allow us to plan ahead i...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 1 Future consideration