You're looking for the latest doc for the version 5.3.0 releases. You went to the Information Center and you got redirected to something called IBM Knowledge Center. What's going on? And how do you find the documentation? Well, obviously, the OMEGAMON XE product documentation and the Tivoli Management Services shared documentation has moved from the Information Center to the new IBM® Knowledge Center. Knowledge Center, or KC as it is commonly referred to, is IBM's new central location for product documentation. To find the... [More]

The Second in a Series :  OMEGAMON XE for DB2 Performance Expert on z/OS development plans to demonstrate, discuss, and solicit feedback on the next set of features and functions in development for the upcoming release.  Mark your calendars for October 2, 2014 at 10:00AM Eastern where the development team will focus on: Navigation improvements planned for the enhanced 3270 UI Integration enhancements planned for the enhanced 3270 UI . We look forward to seeing you there. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- What is the... [More]

  On z/OS data collected during the OMEGAMON history collection process is stored in the OMEGAMON Persistent Data Store (PDS). The PDS is a set of predefined flat files that are continually re-used. When the active PDS data set becomes full, the PDS data set containing the oldest data will be emptied and initialized for reuse. The PDS maintenance process is an automated process which should not require intervention by the system administrator. However, there are a number of PDS related MVS modify commands which can be issued to assist in... [More]

Despite the obvious importance of checking the authority of the issuer of a NetView command to issue the command, there are times when such checking should be bypassed in order to optimize performance.  One such example is when commands are invoked by NetView's automation table.  Users can configure automation-invoked commands to be authority-checked or not.  Another such example regards commands that are invoked by other commands.  Of course, we can consider the combined case of a command "A" driven by... [More]

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I am happy to inform you that we are having an AOTC (Automated Operations Technical Council)  Customer Advisory Council (CAC) meeting at the Interconnect 2015 conference in Las Vegas. Here is the tentative schedule for AOTC 2015: 1. Kick off: Sunday afternoon, 2/22/2015, from 1 PM - 5 PM (4 hours) 2. Thursday, 2/26/2015, from 1 PM - 6 PM (5 hours) 3. Friday, 2/27/2015, from 8 AM - 12 PM (4 hours) These AOTC meetings will be held in parallel to Interconnect 2015, which runs from February 22rd through Feb 26th.   This e-mail is an... [More]

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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On z/OS data collected during the OMEGAMON history collection process is stored in the Persistent Data Store (PDS). In this blog entry we will provide some insight into how to effectively monitor the PDS maintenance process. The PDS is a set of pre-allocated flat files that are continually reinitialized and reused. T he PDS maintenance process is an automated process which should not require intervention by the system administrator. However, an understanding of the PDS maintenance process will be helpful to system administrators who want to... [More]

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On z/OS data collected during the OMEGAMON history collection process is stored in the OMEGAMON Persistent Data Store (PDS). In this blog entry we will discuss PDS sizing considerations for the OMEGAMON XE for CICS and the OMEGAMON XE for CICS TG product components. The PDS is a set of pre-allocated flat files that are re-used on an oldest data basis. When the active PDS data set becomes full, data collection will switch to the next empty PDS file. When there are no more empty PDS data sets, the PDS data set containing the oldest data will be... [More]

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In this blog we will discuss the best practices for configuring Near Term History (NTH) data collection for the OMEGAMON XE for CICS product. The information provided in this blog is applicable for both the OMEGAMON XE for CICS product component and the OMEGAMON XE for CICS TG product component. The enhanced 3270UI Near Term History feature only requires that history collection be enabled for the desired attribute groups. The NTH reports viewed in the enhanced 3270UI are generated from the same history data that is used for the short-term... [More]

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The following is a brief overview of the IBM® DB2® Analytics Accelerator for z/OS® monitoring capabilities with IBM Tivoli® OMEGAMON® XE for DB2 Performance Expert on z/OS – part of the IBM Tivoli Performance Management Suite for z/OS.  One would think with queries purportedly running 2000x faster than without an accelerator, who would need to monitor its performance?  But just as the first thing all of us techies do after upgrading anything that claims improved performance is to attempt to confirm the... [More]

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P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The IMS shared queues environment allows customers to distribute their application workload over a set of connected IMS systems. Whether a front-end / back-end or a load balanced environment, messages are queued to one system and may be processed on another. This can lead to questions such as: Where are my IMS messages originating? Being processed? How long are messages waiting on the queue ? Do I have enough regions to handle the messages being received?   The Response Time Analyzer (RTA) component of... [More]

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The Automation Table is one of a number of capabilities in the NetView® for z/OS® program that allow for automated handling of many of the information-system and network operations that usually require human intervention.  Automation can improve the availability of systems and networks by quickly and accurately responding to unexpected events.  And when outages do occur, whether planned or unplanned, automation can dramatically reduce recovery time.  Automation can reduce the chances for operator errors by either... [More]

Learn about the new capabilities available in OMEGAMON XE on z/OS by watching the new videos on our  YouTube playlist . See what's new in version 5.3.0 and see new how-to videos on solving problems quickly with near-term history and embedded data. Learn more about the integration and capabilities of the OMEGAMON Performance Management Suite on our  YouTube playlist . Or visit our dev elop erWo rks  wik i  to find the same videos and more about the OMEGAMON Performance Management suite.

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On September 5, 2014 IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for Messaging for z/OS v7.3.0 became generally available. Besides the near-term history, cross-product embeds and some other cool features, Messaging v7.3.0 also provides updated support for IBM MQ v8.0 features, like: Automatically discovers and monitors MQ v8 queue managers Monitors 64-bit Buffer Pools Incorporates required internal processing changes for SMF Type 115 statistics  Supports 8-byte Log RBAs Adds more monitoring attributes, for example, the attributes for the multiple cluster... [More]

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