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CICS Bundles

Hello, CICS bundles are becoming a part of online transaction environment. For now, there is no place to search for CICS bundles. If the same CICS bundle is installed in multiple CICS regions, there is no place to see where they are installed. Nei...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 1 Delivered

Include application name and user ID doing MQPUTs and MQGETs in Omegamon

This RFE is to enable Omegamon to display application name and or user ID of the process which is performing the GET/PUT or both. We had enabled application stats for Omegamon but it does not show the applications name rather it either shows CICS ...
over 4 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Messaging on z/OS 0 Delivered

Dynamically define log streams at z/OS Connect startup

In order to enable API Monitoring in OMEGAMON for JVM each z/OS connect has to have it's own logstream crated ( source ). This is very problematic if you are running a high number of instances. As an idea (suggested by IBM): Customers would update...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 2 Delivered

Enhance CICS-PA to OMEGAMON report

CICS PA OMEGAMON reports process OMEGAMON for CICS (SMF 112 subtype 203) records to produce a detailed view of how CICS transactions use the following types of database management system (DBMS): Adabas , CA-Datacom, CA-IDMS, Supra. In SMF type112 ...
over 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

OMON Resource Limiting for Transaction CPU Time for less than 1 Second

Looking to see if a change can be made to allow Omegamon to do CICS Transaction Limiting (KILL LIMIT) for under 1 Second CPU Time. Seems that one second is the lowest value that can be set.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Resource limiting on transaction runtime time (after first dispatch)

We have transactions queued in tclass and they are in tclass for longer than the time allowed for the task to complete in the resource monitoring. This result in the tasks being purged as soon as they get a change to start / get first dispatched. ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / All components 1 Delivered

CICS PA Web solution

-- We open this RFE as requested by IBM in our previous PA discussion. Details were discussed in the meeting. We would like to see if IBM has any plans to provide web based analytics to CICSPA, where the PA reports in MF can be sent to a web serve...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Delivered

Enhance CICS PA to process zOS Connect SMF Data

Enable CICS Performance Analyzer to process the SMF data produced by zOS Connect.
over 7 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 6 Delivered

Omegamon z/OS - zIIP and IFL information

We would like to have the zIIP and IFL information on the Omegamon z/OS like this:- Percent of zIIP and IFL utilization (total and per LPAR- How many zIIP and IFL processors are active on system Z
over 5 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Delivered

Make CPU Resource Limiting effective for EXEC JCICS calls

We have some development going on with JAVA under CICS. When a transaction goes into a loop, RLCP ignores it. We have learned (see Case TS013710405) that RLCP only monitors EXEC CICS calls and not EXEC JCICS calls. Also, it ignores any programs th...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 1 Delivered