Hello, This months blog deals with the IBM Support Portal. Here is a link for the Portal:  IBM Supportal Home Page   It is actually one of the better support sites that I have seen as it puts all Product Information in one page - and it's easy to set up. To get started, you just go to the home page and sign in (creating a ID only takes a minute). Then you select the products you are interested in and you are done.   Some of the useful information you will find on the Portal is as follows: Flashes and Alerts   This section contains... [More]

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300 of the latest Redbook publications are available for no-cost download in EPUB (short for electronic publication) format for e-readers.   EPUB is a free and open e-book standard by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). EPUB is designed for reflowable content, which allows the text display to be optimized for the devices used by readers, including smaller devices such as mobile phones. Users of these devices will be able to easily read and navigate Redbooks publications on any size screen. They will also be able to leverage all... [More]

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                        Gain Visibility, Control and Automation across your organization and infrastructure boundaries. Are you looking to increase your personal skills in the Service Management arena? Are a responsible for a team of Tivoli professionals who need to delve deeper into the products? Would you or your team benefit from learning deep technical skills from real experts in their fields? Then the EMEA Tivoli & Security Technical Conference 2012 is just what you need! Click here to learn more! One of the many business benefits of... [More]

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Try it, you'll like it!   The IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS (CICS TS) V5.1 open beta, which was previously announced on April 24 of this year, introduces cloud-style CICS development, deployment, and operations, by delivering new Platform as a Service (PaaS) capabilities that can be used to host Software as a Service (SaaS)-based CICS applications. Foundational advancements in both capability and scalability will allow CICS applications to do more, more easily.   For more information, click the following link: CICS TS for z/OS V5.1 open... [More]

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Hello, This is John Arnesen with NetView level 2 support. I have been asked to be blogger from a support perspective.   I will be blogging with things like latest problems, new critical or HIPER apars and things like that. Let me know if you have any questions that Support can help out with.    Thanks, John  

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  This presentation provides comprehensive information about SDF • basics of SDF • explaining the panel commands using the samples shipped in SINGNPRM • customization steps for SDF • demonstration of SA performance display using SDF Link to Presentation 'SDF for Beginners'

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An updated version of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring/OMEGAMON XE for CICS plug-in for the CICS Explorer is now available for download from the ISM Library site IBM Tivoli Monitoring Eclipse plug-in on ISM Library This plug-in provides the ability to view OMEGAMON XE data in Eclipse. This allows OMEGAMON gathered data to be viewed in conjunction with data from other Eclipse-based applications such as CICS Explorer. This version of the plug-in displays most Tivoli monitoring systems and their on-line status, and displays OMEGAMON monitoring... [More]

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Want to star in an IBM System z poster?   Be proud to be part of Z. The new IBM System z Poster is going to be designed by you. Provide your picture and become part of the new IBM System z poster – together with many other customers from all over the world!   Spots are limited so upload your picture by July 30. Click the link below for more information.   System Z poster    

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Listen to  Andy Armstrong, CICS System Test Senior Inventor, IBM Software Group and William Yates, CICS System Test, IBM Software Group outline and explain how using mobile applications that mirror website functionality will enable you to drive new potential.   In this complimentary webcast, you will have the opportunity to hear from two of IBM’s expert speakers on how CICS is addressing the mobile marketplace.     Some other topics will include: Hosting web applications within CICS to make mobile applications lightning fast Getting major... [More]

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Solution packages 5655-N23 IBM Security zSecure Administration 5655-N24 IBM Security zSecure Compliance and Auditing 5655-N25 IBM Security zSecure Compliance and Administration   These solutions originally became available on June 1, 2012. You can read the full US announcement letter here .   Contents of the solution packages IBM Security zSecure Administration V2 (5655-N23) contains the following components :   IBM Security zSecure Admin V2 (5655-N16)   IBM Security zSecure Visual V2 (5655-N20) IBM Security zSecure Compliance and Auditing V2... [More]

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IBM Security zSecure Manager for RACF z/VM 1.11.1 has become generally available on June 15, 2012.   Notable features include: * coverage of minidisks and real devices in dedicated new report types VM_MDISK and VM_DEV, available from menu options RE.V.M and RE.V.RD. * exploitation of a security API provided in z/VM V6R2 by RACF, which adds a number of reports and options that were only available under z/OS before, e.g.    - substantial extensions to menu option AU.S - RACF control: many new and enhanced reports on RACF security settings    -... [More]

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     'Dear Rocky' answers your System z monitoring and performance tuning questions. Rocky McMahan, a Senior Software Performance Engineer in Tivoli R&D, offers valuable tips to help you get more out of your Tivoli monitoring software.   Dear Rocky I am a performance engineer for a large global health services company with over 32,00 employees, operates in 30 countries   around the world, has 70 million customers, and $22 billion in revenue. We  use several IBM® Tivoli® OMEGAMON® products to monitor our 8 - way production Parallel Sysplex... [More]

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Has anyone checked out the Tivoli presence for IEA training lately? We have >380 modules across 53 products! There are some Z products contained within Tivoli IBM Education Assistant

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Here are just some of the highlights: Speed mainframe application delivery with continuous integration and testing Webcast: Learn from our experts about smarter development and testing for System z Free e-book: Get started with WebSphere Application Server V8.5 for z/OS and Liberty Profile Deliver exceptional web experiences to customers, partners and employees – wherever they are Webcast: Elevate your operational analytics with new DB2 10 for z/OS Real-Time Scoring     IBM Software Newsletter: System Z Edition       If you want to subscribe to... [More]

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I got some requests from IBM Tivoli System Automation (SA z/OS) users asking for access to the presentation of the SA z/OS V3.4 - File Update Enhancements. If you'd like to download it, please use this link...or find the file below. https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/groups/service/html/communityview?communityUuid=5e65990a-9690-42e2-93b1-c2267be7620c#fullpageWidgetId=Waa62f018a05a_4ca4_b612_49ffee80398e&file=05bbe373-6533-46fc-80fe-cc13a3e9cb40   SA z/OS V3.4 - File Update Enhancements - Presentation

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Recently, a customer wanted to know if there was a way to track not only the userID, but when changes were made to a workspace in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal with IBM Tivoli Monitoring, v6.2.3. To begin, there are no traces that need to be setup in order to track these changes. These are the two alternatives:   You can look for any changes in the kfwmservices.msg file that is found in the itm_home\logs directory for non-Windows platforms; it's in the itm_home\logs directory for Windows.  You can create situations or warehouse the messages that... [More]

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So many workspace titles, so many panel IDs, so little time! What does it all mean? For a comprehensive look at OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS, V510 enhanced 3270 user interface workspace titles, panel IDs, and descriptions, see the link further on in this post. FYI: Some of the descriptions contain real usage scenarios pertaining to that specific workspace and others needed to potentially solve a problem   Here is a quick look of what's inside:       OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS: e3270ui workspace titles, panel IDs, descriptions and scenarios  ... [More]

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IBM has just released a brand-new set of performance and availability monitoring capabilities for its zEnterprise™ hybrid computing system. With this release, IBM offers for the first time an end-to-end monitoring solution for the zEnterprise environment, its physical and virtual resources and workload resource groups. Please click here to read the announcement in detail. Only a single instance of the monitoring agent is required to monitor all zEnterprise systems in a customer's data center. Through the Tivoli Enterprise Portal, the agent... [More]

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To get right to the point, it is not a requirement to cycle the CICS regions after applying OMEGAMON XE FOR CICS toleration maintenance.   For more information on the particular situation that a customer encountered that prompted this inquiry, go to the support portal and see:     Maintenance for OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS and CICS Regions    

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