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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   '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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Check out the OMEGAMON XE on zOS 5.1.0 video showing a problem solving scenario " Resolving a Looping CPU Job issue on zOS  Issue Using OMEGAMON XE 5.1.0 Enhanced 3270 Interface Workspaces"   Video Resolve CPU Issue    

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    Folks Come and see the Tivoli System Z Sessions @ Pulse 2012.   See this link for more => Details Thanks Rohit

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This is an example of the new OMEGAMON 5.1 Enhanced 3270 for all OMEGAMONs.            

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See what the excitement is all about! IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE on z/OS , V5.1.0 is getting some good reviews. From Ptak / Noel :  "Good Reasons for Customer Interest and Excitement"    

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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]

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]

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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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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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  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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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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 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

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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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