We are pleased to announce the beta program for the latest updates for Service Management Suite for z/OS and OMEGAMON Performance Management Suite for z/OS. Building on the recent V5.4.0 updates delivered in late 2016 for DB2, Java Runtime and Storage monitoring , the new beta contains updates for z/OS, Networks, CICS, IMS and Messaging.   In addition to product-specific updates, including the delivery of dozens of customer enhancement requests, the OMEGAMON family of offerings have focused on simplifying the deployment process , reducing... [More]

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     'Dear Rocky' answers your System z monitoring and performance tuning questions. Rocky McMahan, a Senior Software Performance Engineer in z System Software R&D, offers valuable tips to help you get more out of your z System monitoring software. By streamlining the product and simplifying the architecture, the latest version of OMEGAMON now serves its core customers better while reducing the total cost of ownership in terms of CPU and maintenance. OMEGAMON has been monitoring IBM z Systems for decades and with... [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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The CICS Monitoring agent provides dozens of workspaces for you to view monitoring data. Some workspaces can only be linked to from another workspace, which might not be that obvious especially when you are not familiar with the agent. If you want to locate some specific attribute and don’t know which workspace contains this attribute, here is something you can try with the documentation.   Note: Only the workspaces on TEP are discussed here. For enhanced 3270 user interfaces, go check this booklet to get the information about a... [More]

IBM   CIC S  Tr a nsa c tio n  Se r ver   for   z/O S  V5 . 4 has become generally available on June 16, 2017. Toleration fixes for zSecure 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.2.0, and 2.2.1 have been made available on June 23, 2017. A new field is introduced to report on the terminal read timeout for a CICS transaction.   Background IBM Security zSecure can detect security settings for CICS regions and report on CICS transactions and programs, and can process CICS security events. ISPF menu option RE.C displays information about... [More]

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Hi everyone, We hope all is well.  Thank you for your ongoing support of our IBM Service Management Suite for z/OS and IBM OMEGAMON Performance Management Suite's EAP programs and for your attendance of our l ast PARMGEN EAP held in 1Q17 .     Schedule : The PARMGEN development team will be hosting an EAP web conference on Thursday, June 29, 2017, at 10:00-11:00 a.m. US EDT. June 29th Focus Topics : As part of our continued focus on our suites' deployment simplification, we want to provide a roadmap update to various... [More]

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  We're always looking for new and better ways of keeping you in the loop with the latest developments from the IBM z IT Service Management and Operational Analytics teams. This blog is one such forum and we are pleased to announce a new regular newsletter to complement this   Our newsletter gives you a quick summary of IBM's z Systems service management and IT operational analytics latest announcements, upcoming events, educational material, and product introductions and updates -- straight to your inbox.    Our... [More]

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If you are interested in OMEGAMON support for zOS 2.3 the following tech note will provide the details.   zOS 2.3 OMEGAMON Information

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Thanks for your attendance of our previous z Management Suites Deployment Customer Open Q&A teleconference call held on May 10, 2017 .  The cumulative 2015-2017 meeting minutes, which include the Q&A low-level details from our last call, are available in a downloadable PDF from the following link in SMC z Systems community: URL: h t t p : / / w w w . i b m . c o m / d e v e l o p e r w o r k s / c o m m u n i t y / g r o u p s / s e r v i c e / h t m l / c o m m u n i t y v i e w ? c o m m u n i t y U u i d = 5 e 6 5 9 9 0 a - 9 6... [More]

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IBM Doc Buddy V1.3.0 is now available for download in Apple App Store and Google Play ! IBM Doc Buddy is a mobile app that enables you to search for the error messages issued from IBM z Systems products. Once you install the app on your smart phone or tablet, you can search for the explanation of z Systems product messages within seconds.   This release includes major search enhancements: •     The app now supports online search in addition to offline search . You can get instant search results if you are connected to... [More]

Next week IBM Systems Technical University 2017 lands in Orlando with packed schedule of updates, hands-on labs and discussions around IBM z Systems offerings. The full technical session agenda is available now for those registered to read through and pick the sessions you want to attend. For those of you interested in z/OS systems management (including monitoring, automation and analytics) IBM will have many useful sessions you might want to attend. I have listed just a few... [More]

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    Join us for our next webcast on June 21 at 11 AM ET.  We will focus on a key component of any systems monitoring tool-alert management. OMEGAMON has long provided a robust mechanism for capturing anomalies within the monitoring environment called "Situations." Now you can view and manage these Situations with the DE Situation Status Tree through the Enhanced 3270UI. Learn how to take advantage of the Status Tree in this session. In particular, current users of OMEGAVIEW may find this webcast of interest to assist in... [More]

On Thursday, May 18 at 11:00 am EDT, the OMEGAMON for APM team will hold its next EAP session.  While the first session was intended to provide a basic introduction to OMEGAMON for APM and transaction tracking, this session will focus on our plans to integrate with AppDynamics. The team will also discuss the upcoming availability of beta driver 2, which will include initial support for this integration.   Broadcast Invitation: If you wish to receive an official calendar broadcast invitation entry to reserve the meeting time, please... [More]

Thanks for your attendance of our previous z Management Suites Deployment Customer Open Q&A teleconference call held on April 12, 2017 .  The cumulative 2015-2017 meeting minutes, which include the Q&A low-level details from our last call, are available in a downloadable PDF from the following link in SMC z Systems community: URL: h t t p : / / w w w . i b m . c o m / d e v e l o p e r w o r k s / c o m m u n i t y / g r o u p s / s e r v i c e / h t m l / c o m m u n i t y v i e w ? c o m m u n i t y U u i d = 5 e 6 5 9 9 0 a - 9... [More]

A Service Stream Enhancement (SSE)  for IBM Security zSecure 2.2.1 has been made available on April 19, 2017 to provide support for new DB2 12 features. These include DB2 region settings, new SMF log record event subtypes, and a new DB2 object privilege.   Background IBM Security zSecure suite builds on the security support in z/OS and  IBM Resource Access Control Facility (RACF) to enhance mainframe security capabilities. Some components of the zSecure suite also support CA-ACF2 and CA-Top... [More]

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Listen to the recorded OMEGAMON Architecture Overview and get a quick simple view of how the modernized OMEGAMON works.  What are the major components and how do they work together to provide performance and availability information.  This is must viewing for OMEGAMON interested people.   YouTube webcast   Wiki link to webcast   Link to past webcasts, sign up for next session      

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The WebSphere MQ Monitoring agent provides dozens of workspaces for you to view monitoring data. Some workspaces can be retrieved directly from the TEP navigation nodes, for example, the Queue Manager Status workspace. Some workspaces can only be linked to from another workspace, which might not be that obvious especially when you are not familiar with the agent. If you want to locate some specific attribute and don’t know which workspace contains this attribute, here is something you can try with the documentation.   Note: Only the... [More]

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As we all know that advanced parameters that are introduced by the PARMGEN PTFs are customized via the parameters in the Kpp$* user imbeds, performance the following steps if you want to exploit such parameters. Add the new parameters to the rte_plib_hilev . rte_name .WCONFIG(K pp $*) user imbeds. You must recreate the user imbeds to include the new parameters. Rename the existing rte_plib_hilev . rte_name .WCONFIG(K pp $*) user imbeds. Rerun the rte_plib_hilev . rte_name .WCONFIG(KCIJPUP1) job to recreate the rte_plib_hilev . rte_name... [More]

This article was written by Scot Dixon and posted by Lori Esteves. IBM OMEGAMON for Application Performance Management IBM OMEGAMON for Application Performance Management (OM APM) extends the capabilities of IBM APM and IBM OMEGAMON by integrating OMEGAMON data from monitored z/OS systems with data from other monitored non-z/OS environments to present a more complete view of user applications on the APM UI. Data from seven OMEGAMON z/OS agents can now be rendered on the APM UI: CICS, CTG, IMS, DB2, JVM, z/OS LPAR and WMQ.      ... [More]

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