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Submit multiple zOS commands from a single "Take Action" in a situation alert.

I am trying to have the Omegamon situation alert fire off two or more zOS commands. Depending on the conditions, the situation alert would fire and take an action. The action would be more than one zOS command being submitted to process.
about 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Enable Omegamon for JVM to monitor de zCEE DVM apis

Our client wants to exploit DVM thru zOS Connect apis, but is not posible to monitor the time of SoR when the system of records is DVM, at the latest Omegamon for JVM version its only posible to have the hole time spent consuming the api not the S...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Future consideration

CICS/PA to save dictionary records for later use

We would like CICS/PA to write out the dictionary records it finds as it reads CICS 110 data. Then as dictionary records age off, they can be removed (not copied) to the dictionary file.
over 6 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Omegamon agent disconnects from Linux HTEMS often

Our mainframe Omegamon agent disconnects from Linux HTEMS often. Please see if IBM can provide the solution to prevent this error. We want to setup the automation to track the case and send message to support team, but KDS9142I message shows up fr...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI 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 9 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

In OMEGAMON/Classic, it is nice to have a ZOOM function of the trace entry to view the elements of trace function

CICS systems programmers can verify more details of that issue if they need. This is certainly a betterment of quality of support for any datacenter.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

External security manager (ESM) should be the only way to secure the product. The internal security feature should not be provided as default. The product should not be operative without any security.

It will help ensure our mainframe sites must comply with the internal security audit standards.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Installation 1 Not under consideration

Omegamon for z/OS agent for JES

Provide the ability to monitor the JES environment, whether it be JES2 or JES3
over 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under 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 4 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Epilog/IMS Space Warning Parameter required

The Epilog/IMS Datastore filled up without any warning.As requested in the PMR, a WARNING parameter should be implemented in Epilog/IMS, like it is in Epilog/zOS
almost 7 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration