On Thursday, July 28th at 1000am EST, the OMEGAMON Development team are hosting an EAP session to present more details about IBM OMEGAMON for Application Performance Management (APM). OMEGAMON for APM offers integration of z/OS resource data into the APM framework, allowing you to build cross platform views of your applications. There will also be a brief discussion of our design work which allows our customers to work with development to provide input to the planning process for the upcoming software releases. This effort  helps us ensure... [More]

On December 11, 2015 IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V5.3 became generally available. Toleration support is available via the service stream as follows: OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS V510 APAR OA48778 PTF  UA80210 V530 APAR OA49613 PTF  UA80219 OMEGAMON XE for CICS TG on z/OS APAR OA48780 PTF V510 UA80212 PTF V530 UA80213 OMEGAMON End-to-End APAR OA49571 PTF V620 tbd ITCAM for CICS on z/OS APAR OA50357 PTF V73S UA81503 PTF V74S UA81504 OMEGAMON XE for IMS on z/OS V510 APAR OA48722 PTF  UA80052 V530 APAR OA48805 PTF ... [More]

Operational Insights at a Glance – the journey begins! On June 30, 2016, we released IBM Operations Analytics for z Systems v2.2.0 Interim Feature 2 . With this Interim Feature, tedious searching through volumes of operational data is a thing of the past. The new Problem Insights dashboard puts key operational issues at your fingertips: Summarization of key issues per sysplex. A Problem Insights table that provides a synopsis of the key issues that are affecting the  sysplexes that you select. Suggested Actions that offer actionable... [More]

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New Filter Options for Application Trace Facility   With APAR PI59278, the OMEGAMON for DB2 Performance Expert Application Trace Facility (ATF) introduces important filtering improvements. With these improvements, DBAs can more quickly zoom directly to problem areas, reducing the time needed to identify performance issues. With this APAR, not only are new filtering options supported, but existing options have been enhanced to improve usability. The new filtering options are PACKAGE NAME, COLLECTION ID, PACKAGE LOCATION, WORKSTATION USERID,... [More]

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The announcement letter for IBM Security zSecure suite 2.2.0 issued on October 1, 2015 contained a Statement of Direction about providing 64-bit addressing support on a future date. This support has become available on June 25, 2016 through a Service Stream Enhancement (SSE). This SSE also contains performance improvements and scoping enhancements that also apply to 31-bit addressing mode.   Background IBM Security zSecure suite can help you protect your enterprise, detect threats, comply with policy and regulations and... [More]

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Thanks for your attendance of the previous OMEGAMON deployment customer open Q&A teleconference call held on May 25, 2016 .  The cumulative monthly meeting minutes, which include the Q&A low-level details, are available in a downloadable PDF from the following link in SMC z Systems community: URL: http ://w ww.i bm.c om/d evel oper work s/co mmun ity/ grou ps/s ervi ce/h tml/ comm unit yvie w?co mmun ityU uid= 5e65 990a -969 0-42 e2-9 3b1- c226 7be7 620c #ful lpag eWid getI d=Wa a62f 018a 05a_ 4ca4 _b61 2_49 ffee 8039 8e&f ile=... [More]

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System Automation for z/OS V3.5 delivered APAR OA49939 that provides a best practices sample policy for z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition.  The best practices policy allows you to quickly create the necessary System Automation resources for the Angel and the z/OS Connect EE server address spaces including the relationships between the two without having to worry about the details yourself.  Once created, the new resources can be be automatically started on IPL, shutdown for maintenance activities, but also individually operated using... [More]

 

On Thursday, June 16th at 1000am EST, the OMEGAMON Development team are hosting an EAP session to discuss two OMEGAMON features. We will be presenting OMEGAMON Monitoring for JVM and IBM OMEGAMON for Application Performance Management (APM). OMEGAMON for JVM was made generally available in March, and provides resource monitoring for your JVMs on z/OS, regardless of the subsystem which owns the JVM. OMEGAMON for APM offers integration of z/OS resource data into the APM framework, allowing you to build cross platform views of your applications.... [More]

Level set Part I of this series emphasizes that IBM® DB2® Analytics Accelerator is important for query acceleration - in fact some customers even call it the "Magic Box". It also shows how efficient it is to use IBM Tivoli® OMEGAMON® XE for DB2 Performance Expert on z/OS® when monitoring the accelerator, especially at the statement level. In Part II, now, the main focus is set on how to use OMEGAMON XE for DB2 Performance Expert to monitor the new feature of "In Database... [More]

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I don't know whether you have already heard about it, but there is a very nice capability in System Automation for z/OS that allows you to watch for and automate messages that are written into any of the SPOOL data sets of a particular job.  This capability has been introduced already in System Automation for z/OS V3.4.  Then it supported only JES2 environments.  Since V3.5 it can also be used with JES3, plus enhancements have been provided to support multi-step jobs where the same data set definition (DD) name may be used... [More]

Recently we've got some users asking how to configure agents on different RTEs to connect to the same HUB TEMS. To answer that, we've created this PDF document that describes how agents on three RTEs are configured using PARMGEN to connect to the same HUB TEMS. Feel free to take a look. Connect agents on an local RTE and agents on remote RTEs to the HUB TEMS.pdf | View Details

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Need some tips on how to handle PDS files using PARMGEN? You've come to the right place. Refer to the PDF document through the following link to understand how to: Change the PDS file count. Change the PDS file size. Reallocate PDS files. Tips on how to handle PDS files.pdf | View Details

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'Dear Rocky' answers your System z monitoring and performance tuning questions. Rocky McMahan, a Senior Software Performance Engineer in IBM Z Systems R&D, offers valuable tips to help you get more out of your monitoring software.     Dear Rocky, Our company recent switch over to OMEGAMON after using another monitoring product for over 15 years.  We are quickly learning more and more of the features of OMEGAMON but wasn't sure how we should go about to start monitoring our mainframe network activity and out... [More]

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