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IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS

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Both "LPAR Name" and "Host LPAR Name" show the same data.

Problem Details.Product or Service: Tivoli OMEGAMON XE on z/OS 5.3.0Component ID: 5698A5900.Operating System: z/OS.Problem titleLPAR Clusters attributes "LPAR Name" and "Host LPAR Name" show samedata.Problem descriptionFrom the OMEGAMON XE on z/0S...
over 8 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

New User response for msgOB8111

Customer in PMR 23357,036,724 asks for a better information on what to do for msgOB8111. Don Blair agreed on this and wrote the following new user response: "The default value for WSIZ, as used for PEEK, is 32768. This may be set to any value egua...
over 8 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide the possibility to navigate back via the different options screens

When navigation through option screens in E3270UI to come to some information panel, there is no way to go back via these option screens. "Go back" means you return to the primary screen.
over 8 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

[PARMGEN] Can we add more steps to create/mount zFS/HFS in KCIJPUSP

While doing PARMGEN, we need to run the 6. KCIJPUSP, 7.KCIJPUSS. Then, some of file will be created on USS. Currently, we did not create a specific HFS/zFS to accommodate this file, so that the file will occupy the space of Root Volume. Hence, I a...
about 9 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Provide "horizontal" navigation through 5 minute "Interval CPU Utilization By Address Space" data on panel KM5ASP1H

Provide the capability to navigate directly from one 5 minute interval to the next or the preceding 5 minute interval from panel KM5ASP1H - Interval CPU Utilization By Address Space. Currently you must press PF3 to return back to panel KM5MSUO and...
about 9 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Display correct channel of a path when a path is offline

I created a situation to alert us when a channel path goes offline. I also created a policy to send a message indicating the actual path that is offline. However the variable that displays the channel that is offline (&WaitOnSituation1:Channel...
over 9 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Need to remove the limit of 15 columns on the SORTCOLS statement

RFE related to TOM, opened on Omegamon for z/OS because it owns the BASE functions SORTCOLS statement has a limit of 15 columns, as they told us in PMR. If you need to have more than 15 cols the only way up to now is to specify SORTCOLS=ALL. But t...
over 9 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

KM5H0001 ASTYPE Field Level Help Missing A Value

The RKANDATV member KM5DOC indicates that possible values for the "ASTYPE" field are: 1 (Batch), 2 (TSO), 3 (STC), 4 (APPC), or 5 (OMVS). However, the RKANHENU member KM5H0001 only shows values 1 through 4. KM5H0001 should be updated to include al...
over 9 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

LOG for each subsystem monitored is required for IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON Enhanced 3270 User Interface (TOM)

A LOG for each subsystem monitored is needed in order to be able to report all the activities performed on/by that subsystem (from user, system engineers, monitoring and automation tool, etc.). This log has to be visible from TOM, not only on clas...
over 9 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

E3270UI Option To Display Time Duration Fields In HH:MM:SS Format.

Certain fields containing time duration information can only be displayed as integers. These fields are defined as "TYPE=I,4". The customer cannot override the Workspace display with "columnname(TIME)" or "columnname(NONE)". The information would ...
over 9 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration