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IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS

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Meaningful complete initialization message fro all the OMEGAMON products

It is not obvious enough to determine the complete and successful initialization of the OMEGAMON products (for z/OS, CICS, IMS, DB2, MQ,.. ). We can't find an unique message that indicates that all the components of an Omegamon started task are re...
8 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

ITM Omegamon 6.3.x should support OpenJDK and OpenWebstart

Company has needs to supersed Oracle Java by OpenJDK and OpenWebstart.Omegamon ITM 6.3.x does not support this. Please consider in future releases. Please note that GRZ IT Center Gmbh now is RAITEC GmbH
8 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Configuration Manager support for shared RTE with non SMP/E datasets

Both CICAT/ICAT and PARMGEN always have supported a shared runtime environment (RTE) with non-SMP/E datasets via RTE_TYPE "SHARING", RTE_SHARE "<dataset qualifier>" and RTE_X_HILEV_SHARING "<dataset hlq>". Currently Configuration Manag...
10 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow the E3270UI to add CICS regions to a MSL ahead of time, that is when the CICS region has never yet run.

New CICS region(s) cannot be added into any Managed System List (MSL) until the HTEMS is aware of the CICS region(s), aka the CICS region has to run for a while, connect to the TEMA and HTEMS before the CICS region name is shown and can be added t...
11 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Using IBM Z Monitoring Configuration Manager parameter KDE_LOOPBACK_POOL within RTEDEF should be applied in members KppENV.

Hello We're using Configuration Manager to create the runtime data sets for Omegamon products, we need to fix the ports for those products as we're not allowed to work with dynamic ports. We observe that the values assigned to the parameter KDE_LO...
11 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

Allow Enhanced 3270 users to, beside Situations, also see Workflow Policies

When Workflows policies are used for Situations which go True, and these policies perform certain actions (commands). Then E3270UI users are left very confused about these actions as they can only see the Situation trigger, not the Workflow policy...
about 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add Dataclass parm to WCONFIG (PARMGEN and Config Manager)

Helpful for Omegamon output file allocation and management
about 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

Submit multiple zOS commands from a single "Take Action" in a situation alert.

I am trying to have the Omegamon situation alert fire off two or more zOS commands. Depending on the conditions, the situation alert would fire and take an action. The action would be more than one zOS command being submitted to process.
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Omegamon for z/OS needs to adjust the skip&count formula

The Omegamon for z/OS skip&count formula being used to determine which TCPIP port various Omegamon components bind to needs to be adjusted so the range of ports selected are in a more refined group of ports instead of spread out across the 65K...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Not under consideration

View KOBABOUT - display product subversions

Currently KOBABOUT shows product version only: CFG/FW.. V7.3.0 CICS.... V5.5.0 DB2..... V5.4.0 CICS/TG. V5.5.0 ITM/Z... V1.2.0 Java.... V5.5.0 MQ/CFG.. V7.3.0 MQ...... V7.5.0 z/OS.... V5.5.0 Int/Bus. V7.5.0 We would like to see subversions t...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration