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IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS

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Provide workspace to see transaction summary activity for whole CICSPlex in one screen

In very large institutions it's hard for people to see a enterprise-wide view of what is happening in CICS and the whole CICSplex. We are asking for a summary screen / workspace much like the FIND ACTIVE workspace, but with summary data as I will ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Repair Utility of ONDV file on CICS Transaction history

OMEGAMON CICS is able to store CICS Transaction History in file. For example,<ONLINE_VIEWER> DATA_STORE_TYPE=FILEOCMP DATA_STORE_FILE_NAME=OMEGA.V551.*.RKC2HIST It is working fine while it is running on Product Data center. But, when Disaste...
9 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Add a folder under "Task History Detail" panel (E3279UI) for displaying the transaction tracking information. Fields are from performance data group DFHCICS. Please the attached file for details.

It will help identifying the tracking information of the task in terms of problem determination, performance monitoring and tuning.
about 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

To have more capacity so that we can store more CICS Task historical information

Omegamon for CICS Task History Dataset held less than 6 hours data.Kindly advise any CICS statistic required for the calculation.
about 3 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Display OMEGAMON Global Data Area startup options in the Enhanced 3270

CICS administrators logon to the Omegamon (classic) and use command GLOB GLOB to verify that each CICS regions is using the correct Global Data Area startup options. If the Enhanced 3270 was able to display the Global Data Area options, these admi...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Option to control resouce limiting for multiple regions from once OMEG Global member

With current feature of resource limit, we can't write separate resource limiting rules based on the region name if we use the same OMEG global member for multiple regions. Looking for an option that we can mention in resource limiting rules based...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

In OMEGAMON/Classic, it is nice to have a ZOOM function of the trace entry to view the elements of trace function

CICS systems programmers can verify more details of that issue if they need. This is certainly a betterment of quality of support for any datacenter.
about 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

External security manager (ESM) should be the only way to secure the product. The internal security feature should not be provided as default. The product should not be operative without any security.

It will help ensure our mainframe sites must comply with the internal security audit standards.
about 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Installation 1 Not under consideration

Purging CICS task by predefined elapsed time regardless of CICS commands executed nor any CICS resources involved

Currently, OMEGAMON/CICS offer Resource limit for purging tasks running out of different kind of resource limit. Resource Limiting considerations. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/rlim-resource-limiting-facility-considerations However, this have ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration