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distinguish CF status between the 'deactive CF' and 'disconnect CF link'

OM XE Sysplex CF reports should distinguish between the 'deacitve CF' and 'disconnect CF link' state
over 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Epilog does not distinguish between CP and zIIP CPU

We are heavily dependent on Epilog to determine how much CPU that jobs and tasks use. We have found that Epilog does not distinguish between CP and zIIP CPU usage, nor records dependent enclave cpu time by the dependent job. We would like these fi...
over 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

find or locate command avalaible through ISPF panels for statistics

CICSPA should provide locate or find command when accessing statistics information through ISPF panels
almost 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

CICSPA should provide a field that give cpu time in service units

When we change our CPCs we are not be able anymore to compare transaction CPU consumption.All the datas we have stored before the change become unusefull
about 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Tivoli OMEGAMON health checker

Currently CCB engineers need to check OMEGAMON health status periodically, via looking at the job log, but since there are too many address spaces, it will take some time. Thus CCB is looking for a way to have a tool for the OMEGAMON health check.
about 12 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Resetting counter from NMI

Omegamon Mainframe Network has many fields that counters start when TCPIP starts. these counters come from the NMI and can be quite large over time between IPL's. The need for a comand fly over reset process would provide better views of key issue...
about 12 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

OMEGAVIE / SLF more than 80 per line

we need more than full support of IBM 3270 (27 X 132 charactrers) for the SLF functionality.We do not want to use the scroll (left / right) for a 132 character message.
about 12 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Resolver data from NMI in ZOS 1.13 for MFN

In ZOS 1.13 the RESOLVER Task now has data in the NMI. This data would be important pc of the STACK Layer data currently provide in Omegamon Mainframe network workspaces.
over 12 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / API 2 Not under consideration

Option to populate PA Group Definitions from CPSM groups

CICS PA should have a mechanism to obtain the region ids that are in CICSPlex groups and populate them into CICS PA's Group definitons (Option 1.3 or 6.2). Currently customers have to manually extract the regions ids from the CICSPlex groups and t...
over 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Need on demand data collection

For some if not all data that can be displayed, being able to get it when a workspace is opened or refreshed would help with problem determination. I want to see what the values are now rather than on a polled interval.
over 13 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 7 Not under consideration