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Created on Jun 22, 2021

Support to Extended Format and EAS data sets

It is very important that ALL IBM products, including Omegamon family, support IBM newest (some not as new) technology such as Extended Format and EAS data sets. It's extremely annoying that we, customers have to micromanage ACS for IBM products that do not support EAS data sets. An example is Omegamon.

Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Ashok Mahay
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    May 11, 2023

    Hello, I am pleased to announce the IBM Tivoli Monitoring on z/OS framework and OMEGAMON now supports persistent data store V2 (PDS V2) for all history data sets. You can now use extended address volumes (EAV) for all history data sets and all OMEGAMON datasets. Please refer to the blog link below for more details. Please reach out if you have any questions. Regards IBM OMEGAMON Offering Management