The following technote outlines the OMEGAMON Support for zOS 2.1.   http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21647512

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The IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON for z/OS Management Suite V5.1.1 Information Center is now available. The  Management Suite provides a complete z/OS platform management and monitoring capability for the operating system, networks, and storage subsystem.  You can access this information center at: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v61r1/topic/com.ibm.omegamon_zms.doc/zms_welcome.htm

IBM Security zSecure 2.1 has become generally available on 09/06/2013. You can read the US announcement letter here .   Notable features include: * a user interface to ease rule-based compliance reporting against standards such as DISA-STIG (the Security Technical Implementation Guide from the Defense Information Systems Agency) and GSD331/ISeC (a global services document with security controls documentation from IBM). *automatic collection of DB2 catalog resource data including databases, table spaces, storage groups, sequences, stored... [More]

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Tivoli OMEGAMON XE on z/OS: Flashes - TITLE: Do not apply UA69205 or UA69877 if you run OMEGAMON Dedicated mode (Classic OMEGAMON Channel Attached - known as "the Console of Last Resort") - URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21647616   - ABSTRACT: PTFs UA69205 and UA69877 may cause system outages when running OMEGAMON Dedicated Mode (KOMPROC).  Do not apply these PTFs if you are running OMEGAMON Dedicated Mode. They do not cause any problems with the E3270UI or OMEGAMON in VTAM mode.  

We had a busy week at SHARE in Boston. Download the OMEGAMON and NetView for z/OS presentations and see what you missed: 14073: What’s New with System z Monitoring with OMEGAMON - http://share.confex.com/share/121/webprogram/Session14073.html 13498: Managing z/VM & Linux Performance Best Practices - http://share.confex.com/share/121/webprogram/Session13498.html 14121: OMEGAMON XE for Storage - Hints and Tips to Improve Performance and Usage - http://share.confex.com/share/121/webprogram/Session14121.html 14163: OMEGAMON XE for Storage... [More]

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Hello everyone, Thanks for your attendance of our on-going open Q&A calls (focus topics covered to-date: PARMGEN and OMEGAMON enhanced 3270UI).   We have 2 sets of open Q&A calls this month of August (4 sessions total - please optionally attend either Session#1 -or- Session#2 on 8/21/2013 and again, on 8/28/2013 ): Set 1: August 21, 2013 : Dale Hodson (OMEGAMON enhanced 3270UI Developer) and team, will conduct an informal webcast on Featured topic: OMEGAMON Enhanced 3270 User Interface (enhanced 3270UI) and its Components and... [More]

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The Mainframe Networks short videos that were posted to YouTube in July are now available for download from this website (developerWorks) at the following link: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20System%20z%20Monitoring%20and%20Application%20Management/page/Media%20Gallery%20for%20OMEGAMON%20XE%20for%20Mainframe%20Network    

Presentation at the SHARE conference in Boston this week gave an overview and deep dive into scenarios of how OMEGAMON XE for Mainframe Networks v5.1.1 brings a new level of performance monitoring to z/OS networking! Presentation: https://share.confex.com/share/121/webprogram/Session13295.html

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The enhanced 3270UI short videos that were posted to YouTube on July 12th are also available in flash video formal (flv) from this website (developerWorks) at the following links: Logon administration and hub connectivity User interface features Browsing, locating and cloning a workspace Setting user preferences zAware Analysis workspace

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There are many good OMEGAMON sessions this week at Share in Boston,  Stop by the IBM OMEGAMON booth in the Technology Exchange Expo too and get a look at new OMEGAMON features like the zAware alerting function in OMEGAMON XE for zOS.  See you there. 

Hi everyone, this is Walter Davis with OMEGAMON Level 2 Support. This week we have published APAR OA42614 and its PTF UA70033 to aid in recovering from infrequent ATF problems without the side effect of an IMS abend.  Implementing this new PTF does require a recycle of both the OMEGAMON started task as well as the IMS system itself. #zOS http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1OA42614 Want to get notified about updates such as this automatically? Sign up for MY NOTIFICATIONS today!... [More]

The newest release of OMEGAMON XE on z/VM and Linux is now available.  Released to coincide with the GA of z/VM 6.3, OM XE on z/VM and Linux  allows you to monitor all your z/VM LPARs, regardless of which version of z/VM you are running.  Designed to work with the enhancements found in z/VM 6.3, the latest OMEGAMON has all the capabilities of previous releases along with: Support for Single System Images (SSI) See a topologic mapping of the LPARs in your SSI Support for Live Guest Relocations (LGR) Among other metrics,... [More]

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OMEGAMON XE for zOS 5.1.1 alerts in this scenario when SP13 is not active to the zAware appliance.  Then zAware could be missing SP13 having an anomaly that could cause a major issue.   Subject Matter Expert is alerted when OMEGAMON sees zAware not connected for SP13.  The SME checks and see the LOG STREAM was not connected to zAware at the latest IPL as it should of been.   The SME connects SP13 to zAware and now OMEGAMON can alert if zAware finds an anomaly  ... [More]

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Don't just read about new function in the OMEGAMON XE for Mainframe Networks v5.1.1 information center. Watch it and hear about it from the developers and testers who work on the product. A number of scenarios are posted on YouTube. These scenarios are short (typically 2-3 minutes) and take a single networking problem from report to resolution. These scenarios are based on actual customer calls and use both the enhanced 3270 user interface and Tivoli Enterprise Portal. In addition to a what's new overview, there are problem solving... [More]