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Add CEC name as a field in Omegamon Mainframe Networks

Most Omegamon Mainframe network workspaces are based on lpar original node. Please add the CEC name as a field in the workspace fields. This can be seen from the D M=CPU and is the CPC Name. Not only for the lpar ie app, connections, and stack etc...
almost 12 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Peformance Analyzer - Explorer Performance Summary Charts

I'm in the process of proposing a Request for Enhancement. within the PA plug-in of the explorer that provides user the functionality to gain a summarized view of transactions (so each line point, or bar (if bar graph) would be for all the transac...
about 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

new CPU usage metric from the z/OS insde pont of view

At the moment we get only the avg. CPU from the z/OS system or from any address spaces inside of the LPAR related to the hardware and / or the RMF CPU interval values. What we need is a metric for the normalizedCPU usage from the LPAR it self, lik...
about 12 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 4 Delivered

Need to display # of 4k blocks used in a Dataspace

We need a display similar to CA Sysview where they show the size of a dataspace as well as either the number of used 4k blocks or alternatly the non used 4k block count.
about 12 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 5 Delivered

The enhansment for OM for MFN

Enchance the OM for mainframe network to collect data that breaks down CSM or ECSA usage by connection or application.
about 12 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Delivered

Ability to Find and Locate Report Set - Forms.

Performance Analyzer - When selecting reports within a report set (Option #2), available report forms are displayed by using the F4 prompt. Once the list of available report forms are displayed, there is no way to search through the list of forms....
over 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

TEPS Tape Drives workspace needs to show offline tape

The TEPS Tape Drives workspace currently only displays the online devices. When a known device should be displaying but isn't is the only way to know this device is offline. We need to be able to display that a tape device has gone offline, not re...
almost 13 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 3 Delivered

Provide filtering by APPLID or IMAGE in CICS PA Statistics reporting option to allow filtered SMF datasets to be displayed

The customer assumes that specifying APPLID (and possibly Image) would filter the SMF datasets in System Definitions to only those defined for the specified APPLID/Image. Based on Report Sets file selection, this is a valid assumption. However, th...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Write error messages and failed utility messages to (additionally and seperate) KCIPRINT file in the job-output

We are using the “Config-Manager” method to configure the IBM Z OMEGAMON environment. In our environment the GENERATE-process generates more than 90 files and 600.000 lines of output. During the GENERATE-Process most time we have to terminate the...
over 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 3 Delivered

Dynamic ability to maintain the OMEGAMON -CICS/MQ/DB2 record components in History file

Description: Slowness in TOM (Tivoli OMEGAMON Monitor) is due to the abend of OMEGAMON/CICS collector and OC4 abend in CICS TEMA in our production environment – Creating a lot of outages. We have asked our advocate Nigel to develop this issue eith...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 1 Delivered