The OMEGAMON Performance Management Suite for z/OS consists of eight OMEGAMON monitors which are packaged together. In common with the other mainframe OMEGAMON products which were made generally available on September 5th, OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS v5.3.0 included new features which are focused on Enhanced 3270 UI near term history and embedded data. Both of these features will help you resolve problems in your CICS environment by ensuring that the data that you need is available quickly, even when that data is from different subsystems or... [More]

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Integration between IBM Security zSecure Audit 1.13.0 and QRadar SIEM 7.0 has become generally available on July 31, 2012.   This integration allows sending z/OS, RACF, ACF2, Top Secret, DB2, and CICS events from the System Management Facilities (SMF) log to QRadar SIEM. zSecure Audit enriches the event data with information from the security database and system snapshot (CKFREEZE) information.   QRadar SIEM   QRadar SIEM is a next-generation Security Information and Event Management solution by Q1 Labs . It... [More]

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Java is one of the most well-known and used programming languages today, which makes Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) integral in today’s application programming.  When working with a JVM, you will undoubtedly encounter performance issues at some point.  When these problems arise, the thread data provided by the IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE on z/OS Monitoring Feature for JVM can be invaluable in resolving the issue.                JVMs split work across multiple threads... [More]

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Hello everyone,   I hope this note finds you well.  Thanks for your attendance of the previous PARMGEN customer open Q&A teleconference call held on Wednesday, January 28th.    For February (2/23/2015 - 2/26/2015), thank you for attending the InterConnect 2015 Conference in Las Vegas, as well as the OMEGAMON z/OS Customer Advisory Council (zCAC) in the same venue.  The PARMGEN lab. guide from the PARMGEN 5644 open lab . hosted @ InterConnect, is now available for download in the master PARMGEN technote... [More]

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Hello everyone, Happy New Year!  I hope this note finds you well.   Thanks for your attendance of the previous PARMGEN customer open Q&A calls held on Oct. 29th and Nov. 19th last year.   We are scheduling the next monthly PARMGEN customer call planned to be held on Wednesday, Jan. 28th @ 11 a.m. US ET . For our new attendees, the monthly PARMGEN customer call's goal is to have an informal, open Q&A forum especially those in the planning and configuration phases of upgrading to OMEGAMON Performance... [More]

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Version 3.0 of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) has become available on November 7, 2013 . Updates to IBM   Sec u rit y  zS e cur e  2 . 1 to extend the Compliance Testing Framework with PCI-DSS support have become available on November 22, 2013. A PCI-DSS option has been added to the rule-based auditing (AU.R) part of the User Interface. A data classification member has been added to the site customization to declare the presence of primary account numbers or sensitive authentication data,... [More]

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Integration between IBM Security zSecure Audit 2.1 and IBM InfoSphere Guardium 9.1 is set to be available on October 25, 2013. zSecure Audit analyzes the protection of DB2 objects by RACF and internal security and makes these available to Guardium. Guardium includes new entitlement reports and delivers over 60 new vulnerability tests. Background Mainframes continue to be the home for mission critical information and essential business production applications in many organizations due to the strong... [More]

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Integration between IBM Security zSecure Alert and QRadar SIEM 7 has become generally available on December 19, 2012.   This integration allows forwarding real-time alerts from zSecure Alert to QRadar SIEM through the syslog protocol.   zSecure Alert zSecure Alert is the real-time monitor component of the zSecure suite. It can correlate events and send out real-time alerts through e-mail, text message, Write To Operator console messages, SNMP traps, or syslog receiver events. It also integrates capabilities for data analysis and enrichment that... [More]

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The OMEGAMON Enhanced 3270 workspaces delivered in OMEGAMON XE for Mainframe Networks v5.1.0 were created under the guidance of network SME's. The workspaces enable problem solving scenarios "designed for mainframe network experts, by mainframe network experts." To showcase the new function, we built a set of viewlets:   What's New in OMEGAMON XE for Mainframe Networks Version 5.1.0 : This video provides a description of new functionality you can expect to find in Version 5.1.0 of OMEGAMON XE for Mainframe Networks. It is... [More]

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Recently got a note from Christopher Walker of the OMEGAMON for CICS on z/OS development team that our colleagues on the CICS Tools team in Hursley recently celebrated a birthday.   As an aside, here is something that I was not aware of, the CL/CONFERENCE and CL/SUPERSESSION tools are marked as part of the CICS Tools porfolio.   FYI:  The CL/CONFERENCE tool provides the capability to transmit the screen image of a VTAM application to others in your network. So, if you are having problems, an authorized member of the support staff can look at... [More]

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On December 16, 2017 a new service stream enhancement (SSE) to zSecure Audit 2.3.0 has become generally available, adding enhancements to ACF2 support (for example, for z/OS UNIX and CICS) and compliance functions (for example, multiple sensitivities and a new DB2_ACCESS report type).   Background Mainframes continue to be the home for mission critical information and essential  business production applications in many organizations due to the strong heritage of integrated security support capabilities across hardware, operating... [More]

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Starting from OMEGAMON CICS V 5.5.0. SLA Toolkit in available in 3270UI, which allow user to do the definiation and configuration of SLA resources in 3270 UI. User can do the following things in 3270 UI now: 1. Define/ Delete/Update/Activate Service Policy 2. Define/Delete/Update Service Classes, Including the service class rule/response time goal/type of goal/ workloads 3. Define/Delete/Update Workloads 4. Update SLA Options, including Interval and WLM Type We also provide many new panels in 3270 UI to support the data display and... [More]

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IBM Security zSecure suite 2.3.0 was co-announced with IBM Z pervasive encryption capabilities on July 17, 2017 with a planned availability date of August 11, 2017. You can read the US announcement letter here . This release provides currency with z/OS V2R3, CICS V5R4, Db2 12, and DISA-STIG 6.31, adds or extends integration with IBM QRadar SIEM and HPE Security ArcSight, and extends support for Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).   Background Mainframes continue to be the home for mission critical... [More]

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On July 4, 2017 a new service stream enhancement (SSE) to zSecure Audit 2.2.1 has become generally available, adding additional compliance checks for the Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) for z/OS from the US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). This SSE focuses on adding Access Control Program (ACP) controls for systems protected through CA-ACF2. This builds on the ACF2_SENSDSN_ACCESS report type first provided in zSecure Audit 2.2.1.   Background The Security Technical Implementation Guide from DISA provides a... [More]

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