z/VM V6R4 was announced on October 25, 2016 with a planned availability date of November 11, 2016. Toleration fixes have been made available beforehand for zSecure Manager for RACF z/VM 1.11.1 and 1.11.2 and for zSecure for z/OS 2.1.0, 2.1.1, and 2.2.0.   Background IBM Security zSecure Manager for RACF z/VM helps you protect your z/VM systems. You can feed the data collected by its zSecure Collect for z/VM (CKVCOLL) component into IBM Security zSecure Admin and zSecure Audit. This allows comprehensive analysis including both z/OS and z/VM... [More]

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Today we will show you video examples introducing the new feature in PARMGEN: the autodiscovery functions of z/OS Discovery Library Adapter (DLA) (FMID HIZD310). PARMGEN PTF UA82508 for APAR OA50912 (4Q16 Interim Feature) introduces the PARMGEN z/OS DLA integration enhancement. It enables self-discovery of product parameter values during the PARMGEN configuration phase of z Management Suites deployment, thus reducing the time and effort in creating accurate configuration files. This key integration is especially useful in large environments... [More]

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The OMEGAMON development team is inviting you to join us on our fourth installment of the Enhanced 3270UI Webcast Series on  December 1 at 11AM EST . On November 11 2016, IBM OMEGAMON for Storage V540 became generally available . Key updates include the addition of monitoring for FICON director, integration with other OMEGAMON data and key problem solving scenarios, plus how the bolstering of data available within the Enhanced 3270UI simplifies configuration, reduces the need for distributed... [More]

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               The IBM z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition offering allows mobile and cloud application developers to incorporate z/OS business critical data and transactions into their applications.  A z/OS Connect server runs on WebSphere Liberty, either in a stand-alone z/OS Java Virtual Machine (JVM) or in a CICS JVMSERVER.  It is important to monitor the JVM resources that z/OS Connect uses and ensure that service response times are quick and consistent.  Thanks to the new features of... [More]

Today we will give you a video example of QCF10 to better step you through the creation of runtime environments.This video shows you how to create a runtime environment AKA RTE using one of the IBM-provided templates and the PARMGEN method. A sharing-with-SMP/E runtime environment (RTE) contains LPAR-specific libraries and references the read-only target libraries managed by SMP/E. Because an RTE that shares the SMP/E target libraries is updated when the SMP/E maintenance is applied, a sharing-with-SMP/E configuration is good for testing... [More]

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The Enhanced 3270UI team is inviting you to join us on our third installment of the Enhanced 3270UI Webcast Series on October 27th at 11AM EDT .           z/OS systems management experts rely on having fast and accurate information about their enterprise to quickly identify problems, locate the root cause and take the appropriate actions. The OMEGAMON Enhanced 3270UI is the strategic interface for these subject matter experts to manage their z/OS infrastructure and key subsystems. To help new users become familiar with... [More]

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A new release of the IBM Service Management Suite for z/OS (SMSz) has been announced. SMSz 1.4.1 provides compelling new functions to manage the dynamic growth of transaction workload on z Systems.   The new release contains significant updates to the following components t IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON Performance Management Suite for z/OS, V5.4.1: OMEGAMON for JVM on z/OS (OMEGAMON for JVM), a new stand-alone product, which is also integral part of SMSz, provides resource monitoring of all Java virtual machines (JVMs) on z/OS. The growth of Java... [More]

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Thanks for your attendance of the previous OMEGAMON deployment customer open Q&A teleconference call held on September 14, 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: h t t p : / / w w w . i b m . c o m / d e v e l o p e r w o r k s / c o m m u n i t y / g r o u p s / s e r v i c e / h t m l / c o m m u n i t y v i e w ? c o m m u n i t y U u i d = 5 e 6 5 9 9 0 a - 9 6 9 0 - 4 2 e 2 - 9 3 b 1 -... [More]

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UPDATE: IBM OMEGAMON FOR JVM ON Z/OS V540  IS NOW GENERALLY AVAILABLE Back in February, we announced the first release of OMEGAMON monitoring for Java Virtual Machines (JVM) on z/OS bringing the resource level monitoring seen within the rest of the OMEGAMON family of products to Java runtimes. The initial release provided the ability to auto-discover how Java is currently running on your LPAR, insights into Garbage Collection performance, thread and lock details, CPU... [More]

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  The Enhanced 3270UI team would like to thank you for your participation in our second session of the 3270UI Webinar Series. If you were unable to attend or would like a review of the content, we have included a link below to the webinar recording for the Deeper Diving webcast. . For feedback on the webinar and ideas for future topics please email Matt Aiken at msaiken@us.ibm.com.   Webcast you tube link  or use this link Enhanced 3270UI Webcast  OMEGAMON Deeper Dive Link.    ... [More]

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We are pleased to announce that IBM OMEGAMON for Application Performance Management 540 is now Generally Available, and available for download. The announcement letter can be viewed at http://ibm.biz/omegamon-for-apm The product enables you to add key z/OS resources into your existing APM User Interface and easily build cross-platform application views which incorporate CICS/TS, IMS, DB2, JVM, z/OS and Messaging Key Performance Indicators. These comprehensive reports will help you to quickly determine the root cause of application performance... [More]

IBM Edge 2016 is taking place at MGM Grand in Las Vegas from September 19 - 22. Full details on the sessions have now been published and available for registered clients to view and start planning which keynotes, breakout session, hands-on labs, and panels to attend. For z Systems Management, the overarching stream of interest will be "Make the Move to a Cloud Platform with z Systems". On Monday September 19, we will kick-off this stream with a series of three key sessions back-to-back. Starting at 1pm, the z Systems IT Service... [More]

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The OMEGAMON team is inviting you to join us on our second installment of the OMEGAMON Enhanced 3270UI Webcast Series on September 27th at 10AM EDT.           z/OS systems management experts rely on having fast and accurate information about their enterprise to quickly identify problems, locate the root cause and take the appropriate actions. The OMEGAMON Enhanced 3270UI is the strategic interface for these subject matter experts to manage their z/OS infrastructure and key subsystems. To help new users become familiar... [More]

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The Enhanced 3270UI team would like to thank you for your participation in our first 3270UI Webinar Series. If you were unable to attend or would like a review of the content, we have included a link below to the webinar recording. For feedback on the webinar and ideas for future topics please email Matt Aiken at msaiken@us.ibm.com.   Webcast you tube link or use this link Enhanced 3270UI Webcast    

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