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Monitoring

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Develop a method of monitoring JES2 spool utilization including long term history & trending reports.

Currently there's no method to track historical data on JES2 spool utilization so clients can determon trends in utilization.
about 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Delivered

Monitoring of JVMs(J3SE) running in a IMS region

Current Omegamon XE for IMS solution does not provide any JVM monitoring functionality. We need a solution to monitor JVMs running in IMS regions.. This solution could provide unique value to our customers compared to other vendors.
about 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Delivered

OMEGAMON link to HUB ip switch problem

After upgrading OMEGAMON on z/OS from v420 to v510, customers foundwhen they want to change the IP of their HUB(which on windows), they need to change 3-4 member in RKANPARU dataset. They think this istoo much, and they want all of the IP be in on...
about 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Delivered

omegamon e3270 missing omegamon cua functions for z/os

OMEGAMON z/OS E3270 imulation product does not include the basic functions that OMEGAMON CUA has. From checking the functions. I have found at a minumum this functions are missing: TSO HostDFHSMWTORTAPE Many more function may not be there.We requi...
over 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Delivered

Change to PA to allow date modification when plugging into MS Excel

When plugging PA data via select/all/copy and then into MS Excel via Paste, the date column is not allowed to be changed to either custom date formats in Excel or into MM/DD/YYYY format.
over 11 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

CICS PA Plugin: Add functionality to TransId entry box

Add the ability to be able to enter more than ONE transaction id when using the CICS PA Plugin.
over 11 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

Need "filters" to "hold" when copying to spreadsheet AND summary of avg response times for transactions

More analysis functions needed in CICS PA PluginWe are trying to use CICS PA to look at average response times for a day and by the hour to assess performance.Currently, I have to copy the Transaction Summary to a spreadsheet and spend a number of...
over 11 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 1 Delivered

Externalize Port Assignment Parameter for Omegamon Data Retrieval Agent

We would like the ability to completely control what port range all Omegamon tasks use for listening and other communication. Specifically, for the Data Retrieval Agent released with the enhanced 3270 interface, there is no parameter to control wh...
over 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Delivered

issuing messages in SYSPRINT for the e3270ui for products that are not online or active

Stop issuing messages in SYSPRINT for the e3270ui for products that are not online or active.Messages like this should only be issued once and be in the SYSPRINT of e3270ui
over 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Delivered

Update PROCs genereted to specify DS for SYSUDUMP/RKLVSNAP DD's not SYSOUT

The problem that occured created a huge amount of output to RKLVSNAP DD (enough to fill out JES2 spool to 100% in less than 30 minute). The mitigating action and specified 'reccomended' settings for SYSUDUMP and RKLVSNAP in the PMR was to direct t...
over 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 3 Delivered