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View or Print datasets of history (RKC2HIST) when CICS region is down

Now there is no possibility to view the dataset of the history when the CICS region is inactive. The request is to have the possibility from the TOM to read the history dataset even if the CICS region is inactive or to have an utility (from the TO...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality Future consideration

CICS PA transaction profiling reports to support RATESEC and RATEMIN fields

For my month end profiling reports to be more useful then it would be good if these fields were supported. See IBM case TS021549209
3 months ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other Future consideration

Expand REST API functionality in order to obtain current situation status (Sampled and Pure) querying End Point api/v1/situations/status

Currently, the Rest API is capable of bringing all historical data for all situations, Sampled and Pure. Currently, querying End Point api/v1/situations/status, we get data only about alerts generated by Sampled Situations We’d like to get data al...
11 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS Future consideration

Create CICS Situation that tracks the number of abends that occur in the region not number of dumps

This would be an ideal usecase to monitor a region based on number of transaction abends that occur in a region. Using the CHANGE parm you could monitor how many abends occur between sampling intervals and if it exceeds threshold set, send email a...
11 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality Future consideration

Omegamon for z/OS needs to adjust the skip&count formula

The Omegamon for z/OS skip&count formula being used to determine which TCPIP port various Omegamon components bind to needs to be adjusted so the range of ports selected are in a more refined group of ports instead of spread out across the 65K...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS Not under consideration

Add jobid to the M5ASCPUTLH table and then displayed in KM5ASP5H workspace

To make it easier to find jobs with same job name in Omegamon history, it would be very helpful to have jobid added to M5ASCPUTLH table and display in KM5ASP5H workspace.
8 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS Future consideration

Monitoring of Central Storage Frames having information of program name

We would like to have the information of program name in view that shows Central Storage Frames usage by a job batch. This because we have a monitoring to alarm when a job consumes more than a threshold of Central Storage Frames but in case of exe...
about 4 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS Future consideration

Reduce the maintenance needed by allowing RACF groups to be used where we currently use userids.

Currently we use: SET QACCESS NAME(*) - MSGAUTHUSERS and specify a list of users. This lead to many changes as users come and go. It would be much more efficient to either allow MSGAUTHUSERS to take a RACF Group value or create a MSGAUTHGRP keywor...
4 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Messaging on z/OS Under review

ODP/FPEOSTRM - UID Masking

We are a IT service provider and we use ODP in combination with OMEGAMON XE for DB2 PE to forward metric directly to a SIEM environment. The SIEM environment is typically under control of the customer and we have no chance to manipulate the metric...
9 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON Integration Monitor Planned for future release

Adding UID/GID Parameter in RTEDEF for RTE_USS_RTEDIR path

Hello Team, I would like UID/GID parameter to be added in RTEDEF for RTE_USS_RTEDIR. With each GENERATE UID gets updated to the TSO ID who runs the GENERATE. This is to address the case opened with IBM L2 support TS020349894.
9 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS Future consideration