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Purging CICS task by predefined elapsed time regardless of CICS commands executed nor any CICS resources involved

Currently, OMEGAMON/CICS offer Resource limit for purging tasks running out of different kind of resource limit. Resource Limiting considerations. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/rlim-resource-limiting-facility-considerations However, this have ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 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 7 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Upgrading the IBM OMEGAMON for 5G Networks, NVMe over TCP/IP

1- Adding the following functionalities to the OMEGAMON functionalities: A- 5G / VNF Networking Functionalities B- NVMe over TCP/IP functionalities 2- Adding the Advanced Functionalities of the following: A- Intel IPU (Infrastructure Processing un...
over 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

E3270UI - Add Userid and Wait Time Fields to Address Space Overview - "CPU Utilization Summary" Panel KM5ASPO

The USERID for a batch job and the wait time was requested by operations staff. They previously used the Omegamon for z/OS CUA product to monitor batch jobs, but when we migrated to V550 the CUA products were deprecated. The wait time would be th...
over 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

CICS PA and ODM Metrics within CICS

Within CICS Performance Analyzer is the capability to view the components that make up the response time of a transaction. As an example, I can determine how much time was spent in DB2, in MQ and other subsystems that CICS uses to complete a unit ...
about 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Allow Custom Interval Start Time for Interval Reports

I run a CICS PA SUMMARY report, with INTERVAL(00:15:00) to get 15 minute intervals. The defaults seem to be on 00:00:00, 00:15:00, 00:30:00 and 00:45:00. But I need to force the intervals to match the SMF 30 recording intervals that a customer ha...
over 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Enhance CICSPA to support COLLENGTH for TASKCNT on PROFILING report

The amount of transaction volume on our production LPAR causes this field to be displayed with exponential notation usually with an E2 or E3 suffix. For accuracy it is preferred to have a complete number for this field.
over 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Need to have typical z/OS System Programmer commands available in E3270UI

Mostly all the commands related to a z/OS System Programmer should be available directly in E3270UI. To achieve this goal it would be sufficient to have a system console directly in E3270UI with different authorities capabilities (for example for ...
over 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Capability to select specific IP address in batch

In order to have reports for specific server, It would be nice to be able to select an IP address (more than 8 characters) on a select/INC/EXC statement.
over 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

Fixed DSN for containers

We would like to have, in option, a fixed dsn for containers in HDB
over 11 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration