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We need a count of totals number of Program LINKS to a program, total Program LOADs of a program and total Program XCTL to a program

There are times when we would like to identify whether a program is in use inside a CICS region(s). Performance Analyzer counts generally are associated with the transaction. We need a count of totals number of Program LINKS to a program, total Pr...
5 months ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 0 Not under consideration

LOGICAL PROCESSORS EFFECTIVE value to be reported by Omegamon

My Team receive alerts when CF CPU Busy times reaches a determined threshold. After Upgrade from z12 to z14, with option DYNDISP=THIN, we noticed a very considerable increase in the CPU consumption of shared CF processor.With THIN option, processo...
almost 7 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Sysplex proxy designation in a larger Omegamon environment

An Omegamon RTEMS requirement is that the Plexview and Sysplex proxy TEMS should be at the highest maintenance level in the z/OS Sysplex environment. But because the first RTEMS available in a Sysplex is automatically made the Sysplex (and possibl...
about 3 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

In OMEGATOM v5.6 the Performance Summary panel should show all regions, as OMEGAMON CU v5.3 did

Description-The number of regions listed on the Performance Summary panel does not match the total number of regions under the CICSPLEX Name on the All Active CICSplexes panel. Need to have all regions listed, not just the ones with active transac...
6 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Be able to issue commands to all IMS systems in a plex at the same time

In the e3270ui need a workspace that allow us to issue commands to all IMS in a IMSPLEX. With the KIPCMD workspace we can only send commands to a given IMS.
about 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Have the ability in Configuration Manager to build the work (WK) datasets ahead of time

Currently Configuration Manager only creates the new STC procs, VTAMLST members, DB2 bind JCL, etc. during the GENERATE step. In larger environments, often different people/groups need to perform different tasks, example the network person/group d...
about 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Make CICS PA able to run in zIIP engines.

Customer asked for the possibility to CICS PA run in zIIP processors. Bradesco uses the product intensively.
almost 5 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the Configuration Manager validation step to warn about undefined symbolics

With RTE_SYSV_SYSVAR_FLAG=Y, when a (user or system) symbolic is used in a &SYSNAME. configuration, and that symbolic is not defined in either the VAR$&SYSNAME. or as a system symbolic. Examples would be: RTE_TCP_PORT_NUM "&NONE_EXIST_...
7 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

User ID as filter criteria

Like in any other bank, the customer has different business channels like: branch office, ATMs, internet, etc. and all the IMS transactions coming from a given channel carry the same user ID (a group in fact). For instance: BOFFI01, BOFFI02, BOFFI...
over 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Prompt for a formula field should include field description.

When using the Statistics Alert Definition panel to enter a new alert, the prompt key (PF4) allows you to see and select the field name. After selecting the field, only the field name is added to the panel. It would be nice if the field descriptio...
over 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration