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IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS

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simplify OMEGAMON PTF apply process

ICBC want to simplify the OMEGAMON PTF apply process
over 8 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Wrong data about Independent Enclave

TEP data shoes wrong information about process of DB2 subsystems. Sometimes (in case of high load) data about Independent Enclave shown are above maximum possible. PMR 23013,SGC,821
over 8 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 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...
about 9 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 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...
about 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 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 ...
about 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

OMEGAMON Command and LOGON Security

Change OMEGAMON logon security, only if a SAF product is used, so that no logon is required and command checking is performed when entering the command. When a user enters the command then they should be asked for their SAF userid and password and...
about 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Temperature value in attrubute group of omegamon agent

Customer needs to monitor temperature values of z/OS server (CPU, system board and etc) over IBM Tivoli Monitoring agent. Please include this functionality into further releases of ITM Agent
over 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Can OMEGAMON do the REAL TIME MONITORING of "SUPPRESSED REQUESTs" for online CF monitoring

Recently ABC hit a very urgent performance problem due to CF request service time severely impacted by "SUPPRESSED REQUESTs". These requests is a consequence for high contention scenario, which happened for Named Counter Structure in ABC productio...
over 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Collapse the z/OS SYSPLEX level data in the TEPS Physical View to the next level in the tree, as is done for each LPAR's data

In the Physical View currently, z/OS Systems data is displayed as follows:+ SYSPLEX name -Coupling Facility Policy Data for Sysplex -Coup... -.. 13 rows of Sysplex level data in total +LPAR1+LPAR2 Suggestion is to collapse the 13 rows of Sysplex d...
over 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Naming of the Omegamon XE agents

Each zOS based Omegamon product agent has its own method of determining the hostname for the agent. This naming is hard coded and the methodology can be different between the different agents. Thats's why it is necessary to get the CTIRA_HOSTNAME ...
over 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 4 Not under consideration