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IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS

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Add filter for LPAR NAME in KM5LPRO3 and similar panels

Add FILTERCOLS='LPARNAME' to KM5LPRO3 and any other panels listing LPARs. This customization has been tested and implemented at the customer site but the users prefer that it become an official feature of the product.
over 9 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Future 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 ...
about 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Improve timing and history collection of Z/OS Omegamon

We have an open case TS015680477 about a collection problem that we are having for history data in Z/OS omegamon when we use the data to visualize, it is configured at the customer's request to collect every 1 minute, this is causing a problem of ...
2 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Omegamon for z/OS to display SHARED and DEDICATED utilization for all processors types i.e. GCPs, zIIPs, IFLs and ICFs

How to monitor CPU usage when having a mix of shared and dedicated processors. We have a setup where we are using shared IFLs for our z/VM LPARs running our Linux on Z workloads, and we have dedicated IFLs for our SSC LPAR running the IDAA on Z. I...
over 3 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Omegamon z/OS - Sum of z/OS fields

We use some panels in Omegamon TEP to monitor our environment, specifically the CP consumption on our z14. We have a problem understanding the total machine consumption because the physical % CP and overhead % are separated and we can't put them t...
over 4 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 5 Future 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...
over 6 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

z/OS Version in KOBSZOS view

Running different versions on lpars it would be helpful to have an overview about migration status. So we would like to have z/OS Version in the z/OS lpar overview (KOBSZOS). Please see an example attached. BR Andrea
almost 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Additional fields for MIPS and MSU's on one screen and Job Class

Kyndryl client Sagent Lending is converting from Mainview and they need these requirements to manage their LoanServ app and client requirements
28 days ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Improve current KOBSZOS so that this panel can provide detailed monitoring and problem management capabilities

Currently KOBSZOS provides: LPAR, SMFID, Sysplex and System name(s), plus their Model & Serial number(s) and the VM User ID(s) (when applicable). This in no way helps to avoid outages, nor does it provide monitoring data as is claimed in the O...
2 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Additional attributes in the Address_Space_Bottlenecks (ASGNWAIT) table in TEP

At the moment we cannot verify how the CPU_Loop_Index values are calculated. Based on the TDW data are not able to follow back the high CPU_Loop_Index value.As per the description the value is calculated the following way: CPU Loop IndexThe sum of...
11 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration