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Enable history tables in e3270

For ODP activation, we need to enable history configuration either e3270 or TEP. Some tables are only available on TEP, but not e3270. For example, CICS table - CICSTRT. In short, customer wants that e3270 could activate all possible tables what T...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON Integration Monitor 0 Not under consideration

Omegamon DB2 to monitor DB2/IRLM in reliable manner

Omegamon DB2 can slow down or even stop reporting IRLM information when IRLM becomes very busy. This is the most important time for Omegamon DB2 to report this information as it's the one tool to help SMEs recover DB2 normal operations. Without th...
over 4 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IBM z Omegamon for CICS missing capabilities

Poste Italian, an Italian Bank postal office, but also a bank, telephone provider and insurance company, was complaining about the following bullets below: In the KCPTASHP view, the “Programs” section includes a list of the routines called by each...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / All components 2 Not under 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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 1 Not under 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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Action Command should have information in the SYSLOG about the command and it's executer (userid)

All action commands like CANCEL should list some information about the person, who actually enters the command.This request applies to all system commands you can send in e3270UI as well as to the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server (TEPS). It is impo...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Not under consideration

OMEGAMON XE password length

US DOD Auditor are requiring all DOD servers to use. passwords greater than 8 characters long, mixed case and all special characters. OMEGAMON XE for z/os and MVS doesn't support pass phrase therefore we cannot meet the US DOD auditors requirements.
over 14 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Utility to list PA Alerts from repository

Please create a utility to list the records contained in the CICS Performance Analyzer Repository so that any changes to specific record types can be monitored for drift from a baseline.
over 7 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Not under 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...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Not under consideration

CICS PA Submitting of HDB batch jobs

CICS PA for the HDB creation builds the job/s into a single job that has multiple jobs inside of that single job. That doesn't work well for production standards, where we have to execute jobs thru a scheduling tool. Would like to have that proces...
over 9 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration