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Granular KDE TRANSPORT OPTIONS parameter

Creating a product unique versions of KAG_X_KDE_TRANSPORT_OPTIONS, following the normal naming scheme this would be KXX_X_KDE_TRANSPORT_OPTIONS, where XX is the product identifier. This parameter value in configuration generally has the “SKIP:XX” ...
over 9 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Delivered

Enhance CICS PA to support user fields of 8192 bytes, the same as CICS

Currently CICS writes up to 8192 bytes in a user EMP. Can CICS PA be enhanced to support the same length user fields rather than the current limit of 255.
over 9 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

Option in CICS PA to extract fields using LIST without any character conversion

Currently x'00' gets converted to x'40' by the LIST command. This is causing user time values to be corrupted. Request an 'AS-IS' option so that LIST can be used to extract certain user fields wthout applying any conversion.
over 9 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

Long Running Tasks in the CICS Overview task display

Seeing long running application tasks in the CICS Overview displays and the Transaction Summaries is problematic for us. We already exclude CICS system tasks, but we need a method of excluding long running application tasks.
over 9 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 3 Delivered

OMTOM E3270UI FILTERCOLS Indicator

E3270 Workspaces using FILTERCOLS should indicate that filtering is active.
about 10 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Delivered

Product Provided Sit OS390_Local_PageDS_PctFull Fires True Even Though Adv Local Page DS Utililization is Below Threshold

Our z/OS lpars have multiple Local Page Datasets defined, and utilization is typically spread evenly across all datasets (i.e. all datasets are 35% utilized). We currently use product provided Sit OS390_Local_PageDS_PctFull_Crit to monitor the uti...
over 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Delivered

Extend PARMGEN to configure a whole set of target LPARs in one RTE

Currently, PARMGEN allows to configure an RTE using system variables and system variable overrides and afterwards deploy the runtime configuration onto a target LPAR. However, when using one RTE to deploy a configuration to target LPARs it is not ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 4 Delivered

CICS PA -- Account for hardware changes in the CICS environment

In CICS PA reporting there is no consideration for changes to the hardware environment. We need the reports to include a consideration for the hardware change so we are able to more readily determine if the change in the application performance is...
over 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Add OSA Express type 5 to Enterprise Navigotor OSA port Navigator

Current Enterprise Navigator for OSA port Summary, does not have OSA 5 workspaces. With the new EC12's having OSA 5, and the reduction or sunset of OSA type 2, replace those pannels with OSA 5 data
over 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 2 Delivered

"cross domain" datas reports for statistics (CICS and CTG)

We are using CICSPA to analyze CICS and CTG statistics by using batch reports.These reports are formatted. We would like to generate "flexible reports' as we can do with SMF110(1) records
over 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered