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We know the extreme value of using the ITM Self-Describing Agent (SDA) function to make sure all your agents have the latest information for monitoring your z systems monitored by ITM and OMEGAMON.  Did you ever wonder what the current status is for all your agents from the Hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server (TEMS) point of view?    With the Enhanced 3270UI you can invoke the KOBSDA workspace that gives you the snapshot view of SDA and help you find any issues that may need addressing. Here is an example of the output... [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, May 20th .  We are scheduling the next monthly PARMGEN customer open Q&A webcast call, planned to be held on Wednesday, June 24th @ 11 a.m. US ET .  We tried to choose a time that would be convenient for most participants -- we apologize to those of you where this is very early or very late in the day. As part of our continued focus on further improving PARMGEN and... [More]

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Blog Author :  Matthias Tschaffler ( TSCHAFFL@de.ibm.com ) "SAP is at the center of today’s technology revolution. The market leader in enterprise application software, SAP helps organizations fight the damaging effects of complexity, generate new opportunities for innovation and growth, and stay ahead of the competition." (http://go.sap.com/about.html). In the SAP environment, the Extended Insight feature of OMEGAMON® DB2® recognizes transactions coming from an SAP application server automatically and groups them... [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, April 15th .  We are scheduling the next monthly PARMGEN customer open Q&A webcast call, planned to be held on Wednesday, May 20th @ 11 a.m. US ET .  We tried to choose a time that would be convenient for most participants -- we apologize to those of you where this is very early or very late in the day. As part of our continued focus on further improving PARMGEN and... [More]

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System Automation for z/OS APAR OA47189 for IMS V14 toleration available ! IMS can have a connection to a DB2 and SA's monitor routine uses the IMS DSIPLAY SUBSYS command to monitor the status of this connection. APAR OA47189 is now available to adapt the monitor routine to the changed output of this command. Rainer Mahr IBM System Automation for z/OS Development and Test

Want to know what caused that last application server exception?  Any idea why your database is not responding to CICS? Someone just called in and said their banking application is slow.  How long will it take to find? Who will find it? This is just a short list of what’s possible.The rate of change continues to put pressure on the IT organization to maintain a pace that is demanding and fraught with risk. In many cases we have the data to accelerate our responsiveness but without the right type of information the data we have... [More]

The OMEGAMON Development team is looking for interested customers and business partners to participate in the Beta Program for the next release of the IBM OMEGAMON Performance Management Suite for z/OS.  Both On-Premise and Hosted Beta Programs are supported and now includes OMEGAMON XE for Mainframe Networks. There are a number of enhancements to OMEGAMON XE for Mainframe Networks. Join the beta program and help shape the next release. As a Beta participant you can provide valuable feedback to influence the capability and value of... [More]

On April 24, 2015 IBM Operations Analytics for z Systems v2.1 became generally available. Wait ... another IT Operations Analytics product? No -- IBM Operations Analytics for z Systems is the follow-on release to IBM's SmartCloud Analytics - Log Analysis z/OS Insight Pack offerings that were introduced in March 2014. Built on the same proven Operations Analytics technology as its predecessors, this offering not only sports a new name, but also a significant set of new capabilities and enhancements that further increase its value to... [More]

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In TWS for z/OS. WAIT workstation is a general non reporting workstation with the WAIT option set to Y.                                            The Wait workstation allows to define a dummy operation that runs for a specified period of time.... [More]

The TWS for z/OS parameter RETCODE, in the EWTROPTS statement, can be set to HIGHEST or LAST.                               It controls how the job completion code, for a job or started  task, is... [More]

With the next release of Service Management Suite for z/OS (SMSz), IBM intends to deliver a new web based DASHboard user interface. The offering will enable users to automate and monitor heterogeneous workloads from one operations console. Customizable DASHboards will introduce a new level of service management integration with improved transparency and control of your z Systems workload. The development team is looking for customers and business partners who are interested in participating in an Early Access Program... [More]

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IBM recently announced the IBM® MQ Appliance V8.0; you can create one or more queue managers on an appliance and connect them as part of an IBM MQ network. Accordingly, ITCAM MQ monitoring agents also certificated the ability to monitor the IBM MQ Appliance via the remote monitoring feature, for detailed configuration steps please refers to the following technote for the details: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21700672 Thus if you’re using the OMEGAMON XE for Messaging V7.3, you can also consolidate the IBM MQ... [More]

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With the current speed of change and ongoing requirement for better service, new solutions are needed to prepare for the risk change is creating for your IT infrastructure and business. Given the amount of data available, the challenge is managing that data and transforming it into relevant information to make decisions. Integrating and visualizing structured data as well as unstructured data adds significant value to isolating and diagnosing problems as well as preventing and predicting potential opportunities. Just recently we introduced a... [More]

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