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IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS

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Dynamic facility to re-order columns on summary screens

When dealing with Summary screens, to reorder the screen or add/remove columns from the screen requires that we edit the workspace in the WENU, which is difficult and affects all users of the system. We would like the ability to change column orde...
8 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

Allow suppression of 'F'alse alerts from Situations.

As documented for Tivoli/Omegamon situation alerts:https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/om-shared?topic=tos-how-write-message-console-situation "The message is produced when the situation is true (T) or false (F)." We would like an option to supress the 'F...
8 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Parmgen enhancement for OMEGAMON XE z/OS 5.3, XE CICS 5.3, PE for DB2 5.3, MQ 7.3 etc.

RFE for Parmgen OMEGAMON XE z/OS 5.3, XE CICS 5.3, PE for DB2 5.3, MQ 7.3 etc.: We have several user modified members in different libs which we always have to take care not to overwrite them by parmgen.Most customized members are in RKANPARU or R...
about 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 3 Future consideration

Add Dataclass parm to WCONFIG (PARMGEN and Config Manager)

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

Historical data tables have a unique index.

Historical tables created by Warehouse on DB2 zOS do not have a unique index. Making query performance worse. The idea is to create a unique index, such as a highly accurate writing timestamp, or sequential keys. Or even ensuring that the combina...
11 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 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' ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

KFASD100/101 Messages for Agents - SDA Install started/completed as WTO

Self-Describing Agent Messages from OMEGAMON Agents (Netview, System Automation, Networks, Java, Catalog Management, HSM Audit, HSM Report, ...) are not written to SYSLOG with WTO but only to RKLVLOG. We need such KRAA002 Messages like KFASD100/10...
over 6 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

enable e3270 users to close situations

Hi,The TEP client of Omegamon (all Omegamons) has the capability to close pure event based situations. The TEP client is getting harder and harder for customers to be able to run. This is because browser based java support is eroding and java webs...
over 5 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

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