The Enhanced 3270UI team would like to thank you for your participation in our first 3270UI Webinar Series. If you were unable to attend or would like a review of the content, we have included a link below to the webinar recording. For feedback on the webinar and ideas for future topics please email Matt Aiken at msaiken@us.ibm.com.   Webcast you tube link or use this link Enhanced 3270UI Webcast    

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The OMEGAMON Enhanced 3270UI team would like to cordially invite you to participate in an educational series of web based seminars on the Enhanced 3270UI. The OMEGAMON Enhanced 3270UI is the strategic interface for subject matter experts managing their z/OS infrastructure and key subsystems (CICS, DB2, MQ, IMS, JVM). The interface has been designed with the help of extensive feedback from existing clients to focus on simplification and integration to help identify and fix problems fast. Have you planned your migration to this new tool yet? To... [More]

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In March, we delivered IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON on z/OS Monitoring Feature for JVM , a brand new OMEGAMON monitoring agent focused on Java Virtual Machine (JVM) resource monitoring. You can read more about the features delivered such as garbage collection analysis, thread and lock details, CPU utilization and JVM environment settings in this blog post . Or you could watch this short but comprehensive video that demonstrates the growth of Java on z/OS, how it contributes towards a... [More]

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UPDATE: As of November 2016, OMEGAMON Monitoring for JVM has now been superseded by IBM OMEGAMON for JVM on z/OS V540 !   Today, we are delighted to announce a significant new offering that becomes an integral part of the IBM z Systems Management portfolio – OMEGAMON Monitoring for JVM . This lightweight, easy to deploy agent provides resource level monitoring and metrics of any online Java Virtual Machine on z/OS. From CICS JVMSERVERs to applications deploying a WebSphere Liberty server... [More]

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This is as easy as "one two three" now with OMEGAMON XE on zOS V5.3.  First from the LPAR overview screen in the Enhanced 3270UI pick your LPAR with MSU use high - in this example it is Z2 at 98% of MSU Capacity - put "M" in the selection for the 4HR Rolling Average MSU Statistics for Z2.                 The "M" shows us the MSU details for the LPAR Z2.                   Now Pick your 5 Minute time period of heavy MSU usage... [More]

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In a previous blog entry, “You can get there from here”, the new OMEGAMON XE on z/OS version 5.3.0 Near Term History support was introduced.  The navigation paths between all supported workspaces were explained. The scenario used in this blog entry focuses on one of those areas of navigation. It explains how to determine the reason for an address space experiencing delays, and the address space or spaces causing them, during a specific historical timeframe. Why was my job delayed Jason? Jason, in systems programming, received a... [More]

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The new OMEGAMON XE for Messaging V7.3.0 provides both real-time and historical performance and availability management capabilities for your IBM MQ. One of the  enhancements in V7.3.0 is geared toward the new Enhanced 3270 user interface (E3270UI) and provides Near-Term-History. You can quickly and easily resolve problems by viewing the resources when the symptoms first started – in the last few hours or past few days. This release delivers what focus groups told us to be the most important: Queue Long Term History Queue Status... [More]

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In a previous blog entry, “You can get there from here”, the new OMEGAMON XE on z/OS version 5.3.0 Near Term History support was introduced.  The navigation paths between all of the supported workspaces were explained. The scenario used in this blog entry focuses on one of those areas of navigation. It explains how to determine which address space, or address spaces, might have been impacting the performance of a workload running on an LPAR during a specific historical time-frame. Margrit we have a problem! Margrit, a systems... [More]

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What's New in PARMGEN? PARMGEN PTF UA73689 (APAR OA45024) brings significant improvements to the PARMGEN Workflow interface .  The new PTF delivers the following enhancements for all users , whether you are a new first-time-user in PARMGEN or whether you are an experienced subject matter expert .  The new PARMGEN enhancements are now generally available with IBM OMEGAMON Performance Management Suite for z/OS V5.3 and IBM Service Management Suite for z/OS V1.2 solutions. Here's a preview of what's new in PARMGEN UA73689... [More]

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IBM has announced the V5.3.0 release of the IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS product. The new release of the product provides additional exploitation of the Enhanced 3270 User Interface feature which will significantly improve the problem solving capability of CICS system administrators. Some of the key enhancements to the OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS v5.3.0 product include: Increased problem determination capability with the Enhanced 3270 User Interface Near-Term History function. CICS transaction history (ONDV transaction history) and... [More]

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IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for Messaging for z/OS V7.3 provides users overall in-depth IBM WebSphere MQ and IBM Integration Bus (WebSphere Message Broker) management capability. Monitoring of your queue manager, broker resources, and workloads for problem scenarios can help solve problems and improve mean time to repair. Visibility to view objects, such as queues, channels, and message flows with the same performance metrics that are common between the z/OS and distributed systems, can help increase effectiveness. Integration provided allows use of... [More]

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IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE on z/OS V5.3 provides for the SMEs, such as system programmers, the capability to manage z/OS operating  system resources and workloads. It provides the ability to combine information from z/OS and multiple z/OS subsystems, including middleware, into a single screen for greater integrated problem determination capabilities.  Planned availability date is September 5, 2014. http://tinyurl.com/nzwfpwp    -url for full announcement of OMEGAMON 5.3.0's New features include: Delivers Enhanced 3270UI... [More]

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When you associate a mouse click with the Enter key in your 3270 emulator session (see the June 21 2013 blog on how to do this) then with the Enhanced 3270UI you can go ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM from high level issue very quickly to the specific details.  Here is an example using the OMEGAMON Performance Management Suite and the OMEGAMON XE for Storage feature where we start at the SMSPLEX overview and see the highest DASD Volume response is 23.2 ms                           Now by... [More]

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With the Enhanced 3270UI in OMEGAMON, there can be times the user sees "No Data" conditions on the 3270.  The attached technote takes you to a document that is a first place to look for the most common reasons this may happen. It also has a beginner guide to all the major components you need in order to see e3270ui workspaces.  http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21610269

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