System Automation for z/OS 3.4 GA today
Hello, The new release of System Automation for z/OS 3.4 has GA today. It is orderable since 4/24/2012 in IBM order systems. Also the System Automation for z/OS 3.4 library is available from the following link now: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v3r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.sazos.doc_3.4/welcome.html This link points to the IBM Tivoli Systems Management Information Center.
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OMEGAMON at IBM Impact 2012
At the end of April many IBMers,
business partners and customers will be gathering in Las Vegas for
the IBM Impact 2012 conference . I'll be
there along with some colleagues presenting and demonstrating the latest OMEGAMON products . We will be showing off the enhancements
delivered this year that make monitoring on System Z using OMEGAMON a
compelling offering, including the Enhanced 3270 UI - a single integrated cross-product interface - and the
Self-Describing Agent feature that reduces the cost of deployment and
maintenance for... [More]
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Reduce CPU% of OMEGAMON XE 420 on z/OS TEMS and Realtime Collector when displaying Common Storage data.
'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 Health Insurance provider that has $15 billion in revenue, $100 billion in total assets, and employs approximately 65,000 people. Our core business application runs in a 4-way Parallel Sysplex utilizing Customer Information Control System (CICS), Information... [More]
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Resolving a Looping CPU Job issue on zOS with OMEGAMON |
Tivoli System Z @ Pulse 2012 |
The new OMEGAMON 5.1 Enhanced 3270 |
Everyone's talking about the new interface! |
Hear ye, hear ye, read all about it: New version of OMEGAMON monitors
Today IBM announced new V5 editions of OMEGAMON XE for z/OS and OMEGAMON
XE for CICS on z/OS agents. IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON Version 5 product family provides new levels of customer focused ease-of-use, cost reduction and improved performance. In particular, the new version of IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS enables you to monitor and manage CICS workloads using the new OMEGAMON enhanced 3270 user interface, which enables CICSplex monitoring for workloads and resources. You can monitor and manage your workloads and resources with... [More]
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CICS and the z/OS BEAR: Perfect when used together
No, this not a new sitcom announcement about a new show that you can see once a week. It's rather about a tool that you can use everyday to diagnose a check in your CICS Transaction Server for z/OS. You think the abend is caused by a wild branch. You need to know, what is the BEAR, and how can you use it to resolve the abend? CICS TS V3.1, and later, now provides the contents of the Breaking Event Address Register (BEAR). The BEAR is a hardware enhancement in z9-109 (z/Architecture mode). The BEAR is a 64-bit register that contains the... [More]
Tags:  cics ibm z/os |
Updated NetView for z/OS Version 6.1 product documentation
Updated IBM® Tivoli® NetView® for z/OS® Version 6.1 documentation is available in the NetView for z/OS Version 6.1 information center, which contains the most up-to-date information about the product: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v3r1/topic/com.ibm.itnetviewforzos.doc/ic-homepage.html The following documents were updated: Installation: Getting Started Installation: Configuring Additional Components Installation: Configuring the NetView Enterprise Management Agent Installation: Configuring the GDPS Active/Active... [More]
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Webcast series on significant updates to the OMEGAMON product suite
Whether you’re an existing OMEGAMON user, or you’re considering it, these
webcasts will give you valuable information about greater visibility into the
way services and applications are being executed across the enterprise. You’ll
also learn how this helps you use fewer System z resources and tackle
enterprise-wide problems before they become outages. This webcast series is
taught by subject matter experts from IBM Software Group On February 9th, hear Richard Burford, OMEGAMON XE for CICS developer, speak on Reducing costs based... [More]
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TWA 8.6 zOS SPE Beta Program starting on February 2012!
Hi All, TWA Rome Development team are looking for customers and business partners who are interested in participating in a Beta program for the next release of Tivoli Workload Scheduler for Applications and TWA 8.6 FP1 and SPE Features. The Beta program provides participants with the opportunity to get an early look at the next release and provide feedback directly to the Development team to influence the future direction of the product. It will start on February 2012 ending on May 2012. Beta program participants will receive education... [More]
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Tivoli System Management for SA z/OS Beta Program - we still have a few spaces!
The Tivoli System Automation for z/OS (SA z/OS) Beta program is in full swing, with some very active participants. This week, over 70 posts were made in the Forum. All of this will go to improve the product.
We still have several spaces on the program, which will run for a few more months. See this blog post for a description of the current product and this Statement of Direction ( SOD ) to learn about the future trends of the product. SA z/OS is keeping pace with the latest IBM technology. Extract from the SOD: IBM Tivoli System... [More]
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TWS for z/OS 8.6 enhancement: learn about KEEPCOMPDEPS keyword!
Hi all, this document describes how to maintain an external dependency among completed operations after the execution of a REPLAN or EXTEND batch job. Marco Cardelli PDF document
Tags:  z/os 8.6; dependency; twsz; for tws enhancement; |
TWS for z/OS and TEP integration
Hi All, The solution reported at the following link (it's from the "integration scenarios" wiki) can be useful for all TWS for z/OS admins using the TEP integration: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/x/dQX8Cw That link has an attached document describing how to implement a solution entirely based on a TEP feature (the link to ) allowing to create a "launch in contest" link between different table spaces. In particular it describes how to create a link between the ALERT table space and the JOB table space. This makes... [More]
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