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Omegamon enhancements

Add “OR” logic for View By “HLQ” (both “Dataset” and “All Datasets”); Please update the KB/MB/GB conversion for summarization (1000 vs 1024). Add a parameter in the Configuration Manager to change this for data collection. Add KB (Kilobytes) field...
3 days ago in IBM OMEGAMON AI for Storage / Product functionality 0 Submitted

See support for building and loading outside of s390x, especially on x86

Support for building and loading outside of s390x, especially on x86 The most likely operating system is going to be an x86 Linux system (Red Had or Ubuntu) Programs that we need to be ported to x86 The binutils toolchain(tpf-g++,tpf-ld, tpf-ar, t...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 4 Not under consideration

Extension of the collection formula limit for ITM Distributed and ITMz

We are unable to create a history collection with a filter for the attribute group KS3_DASD_SUMM, for example. The plain collection for KS3_DASD_SUMM, with no filters added, is already 952 characters long, due to so many columns in it. This leaves...
9 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON AI for Storage / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

VSAM dataset & logstream ID report

Using D LOGGER, we can get the logstreams defined on the system, but to get information about which VSAM dataset is defined with a logstream ID, there is no such reporting. To get this info, only option is to IDCAMS LISTCAT and get the logstream I...
about 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON AI for Storage / Reporting 1 Future consideration

USER DASD consists of multiple SMS Storage Groups but when you drill down, it's showing volumes of those SMS Storage Groups... Would like to show SMS Storage groups before going to the individual volumes.

When you define USER DASD groups (e.g. DATABASES), you can add that USER group by defining specific (or multiple SMS Storage Groups) that would make up that USER DASD group. Drilling down into the USER DASD group, it then shows the individual volu...
almost 3 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON AI for Storage / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Release TPF Debugger from IBM TPF Toolkit as Java Library

Take the IBM TPF Debugger facilities that exist in IBM TPF Toolkit 4.6 and make available to customers as a stand-alone Java library (NOT as an Eclipse plug-in). n other words, provide the Java library that is responsible for the functionality to ...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 5 Not under consideration

Choice of view-level Page size for ALL workspaces as opposed to setting/resetting it for each Workspace

Currently each Workspace has the View-level page size at a default of showing 100 rows; you can reset that to ALL ROWS (or another number of rows) for each workspace. In our environment we would like to have the option to change that default setti...
over 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON AI for Storage / Product functionality 4 Functionality already exists

OXES should have log scanning and filtering capability

Logs from z/OS, DFSMShsm and even DFSMSrmm can be a valuable resource to the storage administrator. OMEGAMON For Storage should be able to process a log with user defined filters to isolate certain error or operational events. Information from the...
over 4 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON AI for Storage / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

New Reference Stop option in the TK Debugger

Request support for a new "Reference stop" breakpoint type. This would stop when a given EVA memory location is accessed by the traced ECB (read OR updated). Support would at minimum allow the user to specify a memory address for a given number of...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 3 Not under consideration

Add 7740 Cache and Physical Drive Alerting

We would like to be able to setup situations in Omegamon for Storage to alert us to cache utilization and physical tape drive utilization on a TS7740.
over 7 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON AI for Storage / Reporting 0 Planned for future release