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Display OMEGAMON Global Data Area startup options in the Enhanced 3270

CICS administrators logon to the Omegamon (classic) and use command GLOB GLOB to verify that each CICS regions is using the correct Global Data Area startup options. If the Enhanced 3270 was able to display the Global Data Area options, these admi...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Customer would like the e3270UI screen KM5WSX4D - to provide graphs similar to screen KM5BOTA2

Customer would like the e3270UI screen KM5WSX4D - to provide graphs similar to screen KM5BOTA2.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 1 Future consideration

z/OS Version in KOBSZOS view

Running different versions on lpars it would be helpful to have an overview about migration status. So we would like to have z/OS Version in the z/OS lpar overview (KOBSZOS). Please see an example attached. BR Andrea
over 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Meaningful complete initialization message fro all the OMEGAMON products

It is not obvious enough to determine the complete and successful initialization of the OMEGAMON products (for z/OS, CICS, IMS, DB2, MQ,.. ). We can't find an unique message that indicates that all the components of an Omegamon started task are re...
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

KFASD100/101 Messages for Agents - SDA Install started/completed as WTO

Self-Describing Agent Messages from OMEGAMON Agents (Netview, System Automation, Networks, Java, Catalog Management, HSM Audit, HSM Report, ...) are not written to SYSLOG with WTO but only to RKLVLOG. We need such KRAA002 Messages like KFASD100/10...
over 6 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

OMEGAMON/IMS REQUIRES API MONITORING

IMS, when combined with z/OS Connect, has the capability to support IMS trxs calling an API. The API request goes thru z/OS Connect to where ever the API is to execute. In the meantime the IMS trx goes into a wait, waiting for the API response. Om...
about 5 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 5 Future consideration

Monitoring Self Describing Agent (SDA) by situations

The Self Describing Agent functionality to keep the TEMS in sync with z/OS (maintenance) is very helpful. Within the Enhanced 3270 there is a good overview of the SDA seeding process and it's status. In this overview we sometimes notice a 'error' ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

enable e3270 users to close situations

Hi,The TEP client of Omegamon (all Omegamons) has the capability to close pure event based situations. The TEP client is getting harder and harder for customers to be able to run. This is because browser based java support is eroding and java webs...
over 5 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

Omegamon for z/OS to display SHARED and DEDICATED utilization for all processors types i.e. GCPs, zIIPs, IFLs and ICFs

How to monitor CPU usage when having a mix of shared and dedicated processors. We have a setup where we are using shared IFLs for our z/VM LPARs running our Linux on Z workloads, and we have dedicated IFLs for our SSC LPAR running the IDAA on Z. I...
about 4 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Omegamon z/OS - Sum of z/OS fields

We use some panels in Omegamon TEP to monitor our environment, specifically the CP consumption on our z14. We have a problem understanding the total machine consumption because the physical % CP and overhead % are separated and we can't put them t...
about 5 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 5 Future consideration