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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