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IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS

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LOGICAL PROCESSORS EFFECTIVE value to be reported by Omegamon

My Team receive alerts when CF CPU Busy times reaches a determined threshold. After Upgrade from z12 to z14, with option DYNDISP=THIN, we noticed a very considerable increase in the CPU consumption of shared CF processor.With THIN option, processo...
over 6 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 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...
6 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Have Omegamon for z/OS show JES2 spool details for multiple JES2 subsystems

We have a number of LPARs running more than one JES2 subsystem. Currently we can only setup alerts (example: Spool reaching x% full) for the primary JES2 subsystem. The other JES2 subsystem(s) are invisible in Omegamon for z/OS and so no alert can...
about 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Historical data for "MSU Statistics" are not available in TOM/e3270

Historical data are not available in TOM/e3270 for METRIC KM5MSUCAP.
about 3 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 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
over 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Omegamon DB2 to monitor DB2/IRLM in reliable manner

Omegamon DB2 can slow down or even stop reporting IRLM information when IRLM becomes very busy. This is the most important time for Omegamon DB2 to report this information as it's the one tool to help SMEs recover DB2 normal operations. Without th...
over 3 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support VTAM generic resources function to allow a balanced increase of concurrent users in e3270

The theoretical maximum number of concurrent users on e3270ui is 99. However, depending on storage layout, and constraints, the actual maximum number is lower (around 50-70). This limit may occasionally be too low. In particular, in the test/devel...
over 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under 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...
almost 4 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

RMF CPC Report Retrieval Reliabilty Improvements

To obtain CPC-level metrics for all LPARs running on a CPC the OMEGAMON PlexView agent KM5PDAG issues a system level query that drives a system level agent (KM5LDAG) on an RTEMS selected from an internally built list of all M5 RTEMSs running on th...
over 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 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...
almost 5 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 5 Future consideration

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