I was recently contacted by my Level 3 representative and told about a customer who recently had a problem interpreting a message that was generated from OMEGAMON II for CICS. This message evidently has been out there in the OMEGAMON II for CICS world for a long time and some customers find it a little ambiguous. I suggested that maybe I should rewrite the message information sections. You know, the Explanation, System response and User response sections that comprise the overall message. He suggested to keep the message text the same (code... [More]

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For more information on the #cloudchat - http://www.smartercomputingblog.com/2011/08/05/cloudchat-august-11-chat-to-cover-open-standards/ The #cloudchat on Thursday, August 11, at 4 p.m. ET will focus on open standards. For this #cloudchat, we wanted to dive into these issues like interoperability, hybrid cloud, security, and compliance in detail. The Twitter chat will be held in a panel-style discussion, featuring Andrew Watson, VP and Technical Director of Object Management Group (OMG); Sam Somashekar, VP Marketing and Business Development,... [More]

   'Dear Rocky' answers your z System 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, I am a Performance Engineer for a large financial institution which has market capitalization of over $43 billion dollars and generates more than $12 billion dollars in annual revenue. Additionally, we are one of the world's largest securities servicing... [More]

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  Hi All we are glad to announce TWS for zOS versio 8.6. Please refer to following letter to get details!    TWS for zOS Announcement         Thanks.   

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For those of you who are waiting for an updated version of the SA z/OS 3.3 manuals. Here:   http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/features/system_automation/bkserv/   are the actual PDFs / Books available.

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If you defined a profile data set with a fixed record length DCB attribute, for example, of 80, and issued a NTD command to import a previously exported profile you would see the following message in your RKLVLOG output: KC2IMP   - Member &dsn(&mbn) is not a valid profile KC2IMPFF - Import failed for profile xxxx KC2IMP   - KLVTBULD failed with rc=6 reason=1 When you are upgrading OMEGAMON II for CICS profiles from V4.1.0 to V4.2.0 use the dynamic profile export/import facility interface to import your profiles.   Before you begin your... [More]

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Upcoming webcast on OMEGAMON XE on z/OS On July 28th there will be a free webcast covering the capabilities of OMEGAMON XE on z/OS. In this session, you’ll come away with details on how OMEGAMON XE can help: Reduce the cost of administrating availability and performance on the mainframe by reducing complexity and using fewer staff resources Automate availability monitoring to implement best practices and compliance requirements Analyze data to detect and respond rapidly to availability and performance events Proactively handle events with... [More]

Sometimes we take for granted the mundane tasks we do in our lives; they are unavoidable, not the tasks, but the taking for granted part. However, if we put our software hat on for a minute and stop and think about what is really happening when we perform these tasks then the application itself will take over and provide the necessary processing, a la CICS. If you have ever withdrawn money from an ATM, taken out an insurance policy, paid a utility bill or shopped in a large retail store, then you have most likely used CICS. As Steve Mills said... [More]

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  For those of you who are new to System Automation or have already a lot of experience, but are puzzled by the new panels of this SA release and want to know how to get the best out of it, I want to give some usage hints. To be able to add some screen shots I have created a PDF and stored it into the Files-section, the title is “SA z/OS Automation Table Definition Hints”. I kept it fairly short and arranged it around the following three questions: How to specify an odd message-id, e. g. mixed case How to position a message trap within the AT... [More]

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