The above diagram provides a quick, high level look at the OMEGAMON 3270 Enhanced User Interface and how you can use it to drill down for information for OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS.   The first workspace you will see when you log on to the e3270ui depends on whether more than one product that supports this new interface is installed in your environment and what is designated as the first workspace in the site or user profile.   For OM XE for CICS on z/OS, you might see Enterprise Summary - All Active CICSplexes   The Options menu (enter a... [More]

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OA39423: When a remote Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server is getting shutdown requests for CICSplex data it might timeout. ABENDS0C4 in agent when running with PRIMEPSA Diagnostic trap.  The force type action commands do not provide a confirmation pop-up message in the OMEGAMON 3270 enhanced user interface.   When a remote Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server is shutdown the CICSplex agent continues to request data from the agent(s)that are no longer online. Some collectors when running in the agent address space did not correctly check for... [More]

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May 17 :  System z Webcast " What's New with IBM Workload Automation " using the Tivoli Workload Scheduler family Highlights Topics include: Sharing infrastructure among applications to reduce resources Reducing labor costs by automating new workloads with the same staff resources Improving productivity by reusing existing workload automation processes and procedures Speakers: Flora Tramantano, Tivoli Workload Automation Product Manager, IBM Software Group Broadcast Date: May 17, 2012, 11 a.m., Eastern Daylight Time, 4:00... [More]

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Hello,    The new release of System Automation for z/OS 3.4 has GA today. It is orderable since 4/24/2012 in IBM order systems.   Also the System Automation for z/OS 3.4 library is available from the following link now: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v3r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.sazos.doc_3.4/welcome.html   This link points to the IBM Tivoli Systems Management Information Center.

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Hello Everyone We have started the Early Access Program for the next release of TADz in February 2012. TADz is the replacement for Tivoli License Compliance Manager for s/390 (TLCMz) 4.2 which goes out of service on 30 Sept 2012.  The current versions of TADz are 7.2 and 7.5.   We encourage all current users of TLCMz to convert to TADz as soon as possible. This is an invitation to all TLCMz and TADz users to participate in the EAP and the Beta which is starting in July 2012. You can contact the development team on tadz@au1.ibm.com for more... [More]

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Checkout all the great eNews for the month of April from the CICS marketing team at the CICS eNewsletter:   CICS eNews     Subscribe to and read other months of CICS eNews at:   Subscribe and read CICS eNews

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Check out this first part, of a two part series, on the evolution of the CICS transaction server’s serviceability process and enhancements by Bill Bulfin and Ed Addison.   Bill Bulfin has provided Level 2 worldwide remote technical support for CICS and the CICS tools portfolio of products, while Ed Addison has had a Level 2 career supporting VSAM and CICS.   Through the years, serviceability, as it relates to CICS, has been primarily concerned with reducing the time and effort required to identify and solve a problem by CICS customers and IBM... [More]

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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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The Exclude product list shows V999 in PARMGEN for OMEGAMON XE on z/OS and OMEGAMON XE for CICS when I tried to install them. The product codes (KM5) for OMEGAMON XE on z/OS and (KC5) for OMEGAMON XE for CICS appear even though the V510 FMIDs for those products (HKM5510 and HKC5510) show up in the target zone.   In the PARMGEN configuration method, the V999 designation indicates that the product FMID is not installed. Someone started the installation of KM5 and KC5, but the installation had not completed successfully. Once the KM5 and KC5... [More]

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You should bookmark this very important page! The Tivoli APAR notification page contains a list of some open or recently closed APARs that might impact your product. Review the APAR record to determine if there is an interim fix or fix pack you need to apply for better results. This document was last updated on April 9, 2012.   Tivoli APAR notification

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Check out this video from the OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS team on how to use the new enhanced 3270 interface, which was introduced in release 5.1.0, to identify possible CICS performance problems:   Using CICS service level analysis to identify performance problems

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   'Dear Rocky' answers your System z monitoring and performance tuning questions. Rocky McMahan, a Senior Software Performance Engineer in z Systems Software R& D, offers valuable tips to help you get more out of your monitoring software.   Dear Rocky, My team monitors the Performance of a 6 way Parallel Sysplex running z/OS 1.12, 5 way CICSPlex 4.1, and a 3 way IMSPlex 1.11 for a large Financial Institution with $25 billion in revenue, $153 billion in total assets, and approximately 40,000 employees. We... [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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Here is a video on OMEGAMON XE for zOS 5.1.0 and its ability to show the output from the zOS Health Checker.  You can under the e3270ui or the TEP interfaces now see in OMEGAMON XE for zOS 5.1.0 the current recommendations from the zOS Health Checks that have run on the current LPAR.    OMEGAMON Health Checker video

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    Dear Automation Experts, this is your official invitation to the European Operations Technical Conference 2012 . We have limited space available in our auditorium and therefore safe your seat and register as soon as possible! Registration is required for all attendees, including speakers. Only registered persons will get entrance to the conference. The registration process: 1. Register at https://events.paxido.com/eotc-2012 Here you also can find the preliminary agenda and get further information. After registering you will receive a... [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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  Dear Rocky, I work as a Performance Engineer for a leading non profit Health Care system that employs more than 55,000 employees and is a $10 billion integrated global health enterprise comprised of more than 20 hospitals and clinical locations. We run a 6 way Parallel Sysplex which heavily utilizes a V11 IMSPlex with Shared Queues and processes approximately 2 million Fast Path and Full Function transactions per day. Several IBM® Tivoli® OMEGAMON® products are used to monitor our enterprise, however, the success of our... [More]

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  Check out the OMEGAMON XE on zOS 5.1.0 video showing a problem solving scenario "Resolving an Enqueue Issue Using OMEGAMON Enhanced 3270 Interface Workspaces"    OMEGAMON zOS Video

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If you are at SHARE next week in Atlanta stop by for my session "Introducing Enhanced 3270 Problem Solving Capability - OMEGAMON XE on zOS 5.1.0"  on Tuesday March 13 - at 4:30 PM - Session Number 10383 in the Walnut room.   Or stop by the IBM Booth for a demo,  see you there.

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