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Omegamon Reflex Automation Security not alined with z/OS Security requirements

The existing Security Management implemented for Reflex Automation was not aligned with basic z/OS security concept. Today if a customer enable the function to propagate the TEP end user that is executing a TEP "TAKE ACTION" on a z/OS Omegamon Age...
about 9 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 3 Future consideration

New User response for msgOB8111

Customer in PMR 23357,036,724 asks for a better information on what to do for msgOB8111. Don Blair agreed on this and wrote the following new user response: "The default value for WSIZ, as used for PEEK, is 32768. This may be set to any value egua...
about 9 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

CICS PA More Pre Defined Calculations

We need IBM to produce more CICS PA reports that do some of the calculations that we have do over and over for Performance and tuning . Especially for the Loggers . This would save us so much time and make the product an easier selling point . Wit...
over 9 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

Provide PMTU retransmits and errors at connect detail

Omegamon MFN provide stats on the stack workspace that shows both PMTU errors and retransmissions. On the connect detail there is no way to know if that connect had a PMTU error or retransmission. At the connect detail it will have the remote IP w...
over 9 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 3 Planned for future release

CICS Performance Analyzer 5.2 change Report RECFM to FBA

Output List Datasets out of CICSPA 5.2 Reports with are automatically created with RECFM FBM.This cannot be changed. We need RECFM FBA for printing.
about 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 16 Not under consideration

Display correct channel of a path when a path is offline

I created a situation to alert us when a channel path goes offline. I also created a policy to send a message indicating the actual path that is offline. However the variable that displays the channel that is offline (&WaitOnSituation1:Channel...
about 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

E3270UI Option To Display Time Duration Fields In HH:MM:SS Format.

Certain fields containing time duration information can only be displayed as integers. These fields are defined as "TYPE=I,4". The customer cannot override the Workspace display with "columnname(TIME)" or "columnname(NONE)". The information would ...
about 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

OMEGAMON Command and LOGON Security

Change OMEGAMON logon security, only if a SAF product is used, so that no logon is required and command checking is performed when entering the command. When a user enters the command then they should be asked for their SAF userid and password and...
over 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Temperature value in attrubute group of omegamon agent

Customer needs to monitor temperature values of z/OS server (CPU, system board and etc) over IBM Tivoli Monitoring agent. Please include this functionality into further releases of ITM Agent
over 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Can OMEGAMON do the REAL TIME MONITORING of "SUPPRESSED REQUESTs" for online CF monitoring

Recently ABC hit a very urgent performance problem due to CF request service time severely impacted by "SUPPRESSED REQUESTs". These requests is a consequence for high contention scenario, which happened for Named Counter Structure in ABC productio...
over 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration