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Status Delivered
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 18, 2013

Externalize Port Assignment Parameter for Omegamon Data Retrieval Agent

We would like the ability to completely control what port range all Omegamon tasks use for listening and other communication. Specifically, for the Data Retrieval Agent released with the enhanced 3270 interface, there is no parameter to control what port is assigned. It just takes the first available. This can lead to cases where the product takes a port we did not intend for it to take just because it happens to be open at time of task start up.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Jun 19, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - zSeries Software
    Product - Tivoli OMEGAMON XE on z/OS

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Tivoli
    Product family - Performance Monitoring
    Product - Tivoli OMEGAMON XE on z/OS

  • Guest
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    Jul 18, 2014

    Thank you for this RFE, this function was delivered in a PTF for version 5.1.1.