In April, we announced our IBM SmartCloud Analytics - Log Analysis for z/OS Early Access and Beta Program. The development team follows an Agile Development approach and strives to deliver new or enhanced Beta-ready capabilities every two weeks. Since our announcement, we have delivered the following Beta content: * CICS domain insights * Support for WebSphere Application Server for z/OS High-Performance Extensible Logging * Greatly improved configuration capabilities We always welcome additional Beta participants. If you are interested in... [More]

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This is John Arnesen with NetView level 2 support. Did you know there is free educational information available for NetView and System Automation? Have a look at the IBM Education Assistant for some short educational information on NetView z/OS. Here is a url for the NetView information: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ieduasst/tivv1r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.iea.netview4zos/plugin_coverpage.html You will find information available for several releases starting the v5.3 up to the current release v6.2.  Here is what you will find... [More]

System Automation 3.4 provides a command receiver infrastructure that enables REXX/TSO programs to pass NetView, SA z/OS or MVS commands to SA z/OS for execution and to receive the response. The command receiver is able to dispatch incoming commands to a dedicated group of working tasks. This allows many TSO batch jobs and/or TSO users to issue SA commands at the same time. The small enhancement APAR OA44246 improves this dispatching algorithm so that now idle tasks are preferred.   If you want to read more about this topic then... [More]

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Hello All, Small Enhancement APAR OA44246 is now available. Here are some of the new features: o New INGRYSHU routine was created to issue commands during system shutdown. o *BASE sample policy AOFJPDB2 was updated to use the new INGRYSHU routine in JES3 SHUTINIT and JES3 SHUTFINAL phase. o SAP Add-on policy was updated. o The INGMSGS command was enhanced to better format/display multi-line messages. o SDF was enhanced to preserve mixed case messages and not automatically display them in upper case. o The command receiver was enhanced to avoid... [More]

If you've been following the updates of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring and OMEGAMON product family over the past year you can't have failed to notice one of the key features being promoted is “Self-Describing Agents” or SDA. Perhaps you have moved to the latest releases and have started using this enhancement (if you have, keep reading, there may be some subtle information here you may not be already aware of), or you may be in the process of planning your upgrade and have not yet considered what benefits the SDA feature will... [More]

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Looking for interested customers and business partners to participate in IBM SmartCloud Analytics - Log Analysis for z/OS Early Access and Beta Program In March 2014, IBM launched its new IBM SmartCloud Analytics - Log Analysis z/OS Insight Pack offerings: the first solution in the market to provide log analytics capabilities for z/OS.   As we continue to develop this ground-breaking solution, we would like to collaborate with interested customers and business partners in our Early Access and Beta Program. This program originally started... [More]

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In recent times, Operations Teams have been getting overwhelmed by the volumes of data that they have to manually process, whether that is log data, file data, transaction log data, metrics coming into the system and so on. They have always had large volumes of data coming into their systems, but these ‘Big Data’ volumes have seen very rapid growth. All of this data, which needs to be stored on the backend / mainframe system, is that which forms the system of records where critical business transactions reside. This means that very... [More]

IBM OMEGAMON Performance Management Suite for z/OS Hosted Beta Program     To: OMEGAMON Customers and Business Partners   The OMEGAMON Development team is looking for interested customers and business partners to participate in the Hosted Beta Program for the next release of the IBM OMEGAMON Performance Management Suite for z/OS.  The Hosted Beta Program is starting, Monday, April 28, 2014 and will initially include OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS, OMEGAMON XE for Messaging on z/OS, and OMEGAMON XE on z/OS.  The... [More]

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On April 7, 2014 IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V5.2 has been announced with a planned availability date of June 13, 2014. This release includes support for stronger cryptographic ciphers per Special Publication 800-131A from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). A service stream enhancement (SSE) to IBM  Secu rity  zSe cure  2. 1 is planned for the same date. Besides providing support for this new CICS release the SSE will also further enhance the zSecure Compliance Testing Framework. Edit: The SSE is now available.... [More]

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To: OMEGAMON Customers and Business Partners   Re:  OMEGAMON Beta Program     The OMEGAMON Development team is looking for interested customers and business partners to participate in the Beta Program for the next release of the IBM OMEGAMON family.  The Beta Program started on January 13, 2014 with OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS, and on February 17, 2014 OMEGAMON XE for Messaging on z/OS was added.  OMEGAMON XE on z/OS beta code will be available soon for download and installation.    The beta program... [More]

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When you associate a mouse click with the Enter key in your 3270 emulator session (see the June 21 2013 blog on how to do this) then with the Enhanced 3270UI you can go ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM from high level issue very quickly to the specific details.  Here is an example using the OMEGAMON Performance Management Suite and the OMEGAMON XE for Storage feature where we start at the SMSPLEX overview and see the highest DASD Volume response is 23.2 ms                           Now by... [More]

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This webcast was held on March 27th, 2014 at 11:00 AM ET-US   Overview : Are you being asked to support new technologies like mobile, big data and cloud? Do you have all the analytic information you need to monitor and support new workloads? Much of the data and workloads required for these technologies currently run on System z. Taking advantage of additional analytics can help support those workloads and more easily integrate System z into these new environments, while minimizing disruption of current enterprise workloads. We'll... [More]

March 27, 2014, 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM (Central Standard Time) Virtual This webcast will be held on March 27th, 2014 at 11:00 AM ET-US Overview : Are you being asked to support new technologies like mobile, big data and cloud? Do you have all the analytic information you need to monitor and support new workloads? Much of the data and workloads required for these technologies currently run on System z. Taking advantage of additional analytics can help support those workloads and more easily integrate System z into these new environments, while... [More]

March 27, 2014, 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM (Central Standard Time) Virtual This webcast will be held on March 27th, 2014 at 11:00 AM ET-US Overview : Are you being asked to support new technologies like mobile, big data and cloud? Do you have all the analytic information you need to monitor and support new workloads? Much of the data and workloads required for these technologies currently run on System z. Taking advantage of additional analytics can help support those workloads and more easily integrate System z into these new environments, while... [More]

March 27, 2014, 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM (Central Standard Time) Virtual This webcast will be held on March 27th, 2014 at 11:00 AM ET-US Overview : Are you being asked to support new technologies like mobile, big data and cloud? Do you have all the analytic information you need to monitor and support new workloads? Much of the data and workloads required for these technologies currently run on System z. Taking advantage of additional analytics can help support those workloads and more easily integrate System z into these new environments, while... [More]

March 27, 2014, 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM (Central Standard Time) Virtual This webcast will be held on March 27th, 2014 at 11:00 AM ET-US Overview : Are you being asked to support new technologies like mobile, big data and cloud? Do you have all the analytic information you need to monitor and support new workloads? Much of the data and workloads required for these technologies currently run on System z. Taking advantage of additional analytics can help support those workloads and more easily integrate System z into these new environments, while... [More]

March 27, 2014, 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM (Central Standard Time) Virtual Overview : Are you being asked to support new technologies like mobile, big data and cloud? Do you have all the analytic information you need to monitor and support new workloads? Much of the data and workloads required for these technologies currently run on System z. Taking advantage of additional analytics can help support those workloads and more easily integrate System z into these new environments, while minimizing disruption of current enterprise workloads. We'll... [More]

In TWSz 9.1 several matching criteria have been added for defining in the Application Description how a dependency between predecessor and successor operations is resolved. The criterion chosen to pick a matching predecessor that best resolves the dependency can be that the matching predecessor is the one with: The nearest preceding input arrival time. This option was already available in previous versions. The nearest input arrival time within the same day of the successor. The closest input arrival time within a specified interval. The... [More]