The third edition of IBM Z ITSM Newsletter with new UI design is available! In this edition, we include the following sections to keep you informed of the latest of IBM Z ITSM portfolio.   Product Releases Resources Rocky's Column Events   The highlight of this edition   A lot of great things are happening in IBM Z, including the latest announcement of our partnership with AppDynamics. With this new partnership, we’re developing IBM Z APM Connect for AppDynamics, which has been designed to give users an end-to-end... [More]

APAR OA54030 provides enhancements for the IBM System Automation Relational Data Services (RDS).   The new enhancement keeps RDS tables now in 64-bit memory. Only the control data is still held in 31-bit memory of the NetView address space. This increases the capacity of user data stored into the RDS tables. Furthermore, the INGRDS command supports direct key access for RDS tables. The direct key access improves the search performance significantly. For that purpose, a new KEY parameter has been introduced. The INGRDS functions QUERY,... [More]

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Hi SA users, A new video is available to introduce the planned suspend function in SA V4.1, which allows you to "plan" resources in the policy before they are ready to be used. The resources defined in the suspend file will be suspended at next REFRESH, and you have the flexibility to resume it at any time without impacting the existing automation. This videos introduces the value of the planned suspend capability, what is the suspend file, and how the suspend file is processed. Find this video in the following channels: YouTube... [More]

After you install new versions into a new set of SMP/E libraries via Serverpac, you might need to upgrade the FMIDs in existing runtime environments(RTE) by pointing the RTEs to the new libraries. For example, if you want to upgrade your environment from pointing to the old OMEGAMON family product V5.3.0 SMP/E library TDITNT.DEV.ITM63053.* to pointing to the recently installed OMEGAMON family product V5.5.0 SMP/E libraries TDITNT.DEV.ITM63055.* , you can follow the steps below to upgrade your RTEs after SMP/E maintenance. 1. Specify the RTE... [More]

   'Dear Rocky' answers your System z monitoring and performance tuning questions. Rocky McMahan, a Senior Software Performance Engineer in z Systems Software R&D, offers valuable tips to help you get more out of your monitoring software. Dear Rocky, I’m a Systems Programmer at a large financial institution – you may remember my question from several years ago regarding OMEGAMON for IMS.  Our system data is very important to us, but we want a way to view and analyze this off-platform, utilizing... [More]

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Background: We have SLA workspaces in TEP in the past. Starting from 5.5.0 release, we will have SLA Toolkit in 3270UI, which will provide full set of functions about displaying SLA items and updating them according to actual requirement. User can define/update/delete several kinds of resources via SLA Toolkit in 3270 UI, including  Service Class/Workload/Service Policy/SLA Options This article will mainly introduce the panels and functions of the new SLA Toolkit in 3270 UI. 1. Main View of SLA Toolkit in 3270UI (tabbing panel) There are 2... [More]

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Is your company using AppDynamics? Have you always wanted visibility into your mainframe z/OS subsystems? Did you know this is now possible? Find out how by reading this interview with IBM Senior Offering Manager Nathan Brice on the AppDynamics site, and come along to our session at the upcoming AppD Summit /New York event on Oct 19th. To register, scroll down to the Agenda on the main page and then click on 'Breakout' session at 15:30, then click 'IBM integration' to see the details... [More]

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In PARMGEN 3Q17 Interim Feature PTF UA91953, a new PARMGEN DLA menu is introduced. It makes easier for users to access key PARMGEN DLA autodiscovery tasks by listing the various PARMGEN KCIJPDL* jobs, $DLA* reports and DLA* shortcut commands in a concentrated panel. You can access the PARMGEN DLA menu by typing the 'DLAMENU' command from the UTILITIES (KCIPQPGU panel).                                     In this PTF, two new PARMGEN z/OS DLA... [More]

T hanks for your attendance of our previous z Management Suites Deployment Customer Open Q&A teleconference call held on September 13, 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 Syst ems  z Ma nage men t 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... [More]

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