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IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS

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Enable migration of Situations between Omegamon instances without the use of the TEP

Omegamon situations can be created by using the TEP, or by using the e3270UI. For those clients running a TEP, the situations can then be migrated between Omegamon environments by using the TACMD command to export and import the situations. For th...
about 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

Monitoring Self Describing Agent (SDA) by situations

The Self Describing Agent functionality to keep the TEMS in sync with z/OS (maintenance) is very helpful. Within the Enhanced 3270 there is a good overview of the SDA seeding process and it's status. In this overview we sometimes notice a 'error' ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

Enable generate action for minor/simple maintanance on MCM

I would like to have a simple generate action in MCM to activate PTF's in the running environment of OMEGAMON without going through the whole procedure of MCM or PARMGEN.
about 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Simplify Omegamon security (RKANMODU) - only external

We have no need to use the old Classic Omegamon interfaces anymore, we only use the Enhanced 3270 and the TEPS for Omegamon monitoring. While all security is external (RACF) we have no need for the EXIT related old (internal) security implementati...
about 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Omegamon TEPS history navigation by recording interval

From the Omegamon TEPS we need the ability to quickly and easily navigate backward and forward in time by the recording interval. The existing calendar functionality is cumbersome to use and slow to respond. Ideally, we would like a "calendar back...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Future consideration

Omegamon WTO messaging

Be able to send zOSWTO messages to a specific LPAR in a SYSPLEX.
about 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

OMEGAMON Agent Situational Action Origination Point

In an environment with multiple TEM Servers the agents don't have the option to choose which TEMS will use the action item for a Situational Action. It defaults to the TEMS the agent reports directly to. In my environment I have a TEMS on z/OS and...
over 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

PARMGEN temporary generated files deletion

This RFE is to ask IBM to create a internal process in the PARMGEN, as the generated temporary files created by PARMGEN process is deleted after the end of the configuration, removing the necessity of manual deletion of files.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

PDS V2 flexibility

This request is to be able to customize the depth of the Persistent data Stores or their number, what the official documentation have called the "default historical interval", as well as the time of switch between one dataset and another
almost 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 3 Future consideration

IBM Z Service Management Explorer should retain state between login sessions

In cases where users are voluntarily or involuntarily logged out of IBM Z Service Management Explorer, upon their return they should be able to go right back to where they were when they logged off, without losing their place - e.g. have the optio...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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