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IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS

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Add CA Reclaim dataset attribute to DADB

Since the introduction of CA Reclaim a new data set attribute in the SMS Info category has been available displaying CA Reclaim status. The DADB collection in OMEGAMON does not capture this value. In addition this attribute flag should be availabl...
over 4 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Delivered

Omegamon wants ALTER rights to IXLSTR.SYSARC_HSMCR_RCL just to read.

Omegamon wants to only read (according to 22269,021,724) the HSM common recall queue, but wants alter rights (ICH408I attached below). Omegamon should use the appropriate level of access, read operations should only require read access. RACF messa...
over 5 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 3 Delivered

Add ADDVOL capability to SMS Storage Group s

We need an ADDVOL process. Competitor product allows rules in ISPF with various fields to check to determine when to add new volumes to a storage group. They allow one row per storage group. The fields checked are: Storage group name (do not need ...
about 6 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Delivered

Dataset Attribute Table Enhancement

Expand the dataset attributes database to be more than a repository for the datasets on the volumes at the time of collection. Rather, it should be a combination of the datasets on the volumes plus catalog information (migrated stuff and gdg bases...
over 8 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Client 3 Delivered

Map OMEGAMON TEPS ID through the tems to valid RACF ID in Z/OS to exec commands/batch

When we execute a command or submit a batch job the Z/OS system is receiving an invalid id. We would like to when we do actions to exec console commands or submit batch jobs to have our ACF2 ID passed from Omegomnon to Z/OS. We do not want to crea...
about 9 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Provide ability for Omegamon to calculate space based on conversion factor of 1000 instead of 1024

Based on the OMEGAMON XE for Storage Users Guide (see below), space values displayed in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal (TEP) are based on a conversion factor of 1024. This is inconsistent with published IBM DASD volume capacity which uses a conversi...
over 9 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Update DAGX support to allow write to GDG

In v5.3 OMEGAMON XE For Storage provides a facility to Extract large reports from the DADS for processing with a workstation based application like Excel. The DAGX rule must identify the name of the zOS dataset to be allocated and can optionally b...
over 9 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 2 Delivered