IMS V14 is now available and provides enhancements in IMS performance, scalability, usability, and availability.  OMEGAMON XE for IMS, part of the OMEGAMON Performance Management Suite for z/OS, delivered its Day One support for IMS 14.   OMEGAMON XE for IMS v5.3.0 (5698-T02) supports IMS 14 in its base release.  For support in v5.1.0,  PTF UA79563 (APAR OA48864) is required.   One of the major enhancements in IMS V14 is a new user exit for the IMS Monitor. This enhancement can help provide a better... [More]

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Next week SHARE rolls into Atlanta for the latest week of updates, hands-on labs and discussions around IBM z Systems. The full technical session agenda is available now to read through and pick the sessions you want to attend. For those of you interested in z/OS systems management and monitoring, IBM will have many useful sessions you might want to attend. I have listed just a few of them here now:   MONDAY - AUGUST 1ST 10AM Session: 19841 Automated Performance Management on z/OS: Techniques And Best... [More]

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Thanks for your attendance of the previous OMEGAMON deployment customer open Q&A teleconference call held on February 22, 2017 .  The cumulative 2016-2017 meeting minutes, which include the Q&A low-level details from our last call, 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 -... [More]

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The PARMGEN configuration tool supports a number of components in the following product suites: Tivoli OMEGAMON Performance Management Suite for z/OS Tivoli OMEGAMON for z/OS Management Suite IBM Service Management Suite for z/OS Tivoli Advanced Storage Management Suite for z/OS Effective preparation and planning make configuration, deployment and upgrades of the product suites go more quickly and smoothly.   Here are some of the best practice tips to aid in a smooth deployment of the products.  We realize many customers also employ... [More]

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Hi, all, it's April 24, and today we're very pleased to announce System Automation for z/OS V3.4. It  will be available on April, the 27th 2012. Let me tell you some of the Highlights which make this release the best you have ever seen. I have divided the Highlights in 4 categories : - making Operator's Life easier - making Administrator's Life easier - new Functions - command Enhancements In the back you will find a couple of quotes of customers that participated in the Beta program. 1) Making Operator's Life easier TEP Topology... [More]

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On January 29, 2015, IBM announced the 2015 Early Access and Beta program for IBM SmartCloud Analytics - Log Analysis for z/OS. Since then, we have changed the name of our offering -- it is now called IBM Operations Analytics for z Systems -- and released a number of exciting new capabilities . But our Early Access and Beta program continues. On July 14, we are kicking off a new round of 4 webcasts that will highlight our most recent product enhancements. Interested parties will be able to provide feedback through presentations,... [More]

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In September 2014, we released Version 1.2 of our IBM SmartCloud Analytics - Log Analysis z/OS Insight Pack offerings.   This release contains a significant number of new capabilities, including domain insights for IBM Information Management System (IMS) and IBM WebSphere MQ for z/OS . Another major achievement is the ability to run the Analytics engine on Linux on System z . With this, we provide the first IT Log Analytics solution that can be run end-to-end on System z.   The official announcement provides additional... [More]

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Earlier this week we announced updates to the IBM Service Management on z/OS product suites, including the introduction of a new OMEGAMON monitoring agent focused on resource level metrics for any Java Virtual Machine on z/OS. For the first time you can get a comprehensive side-by-side view of the health of JVMs executing on z/OS, from application workload utilizing Liberty on CICS, standalone Java-based batch applications or JVMs providing the underlying infrastructure to applications such as z/OS... [More]

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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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IBM has announced the new IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON Performance Management Suite for z/OS V5.3.0. This suite includes performance monitoring tools to lower cost and business risk of managing z/OS and all key subsystems. This single product includes all the OMEGAMONs for z/OS and IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Web Resources. With this suite, one can monitor performance and availability management capabilities for your IBM z/OS operating system, networks, storage subsystems, IBM DB2, IBM CICS, IBM IMS, IBM WebSphere MQ for z/OS, and IBM... [More]

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Today IBM has announced a new release of IBM Automation Control for z/OS.  The new release will be generally available on September 5th, 2014. IBM Automation Control for z/OS offers a powerful and versatile set of functions to automate IBM System z application environments. You get new tailorable, goal-driven, and policy-based technology to manage complex system and application automation challenges. IBM Automation Control for z/OS is designed to eliminate most common reasons for writing manual scripts and to reduce dependencies on system... [More]

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Happy New Year!  Thanks for your attendance of the previous PARMGEN customer open Q&A teleconference call held on November 18, 2015 .   We are scheduling the next monthly PARMGEN customer open Q&A webcast call, planned to be held on Wednesday, January 20th @ 11 a.m. US ET .  We tried to choose a time that would be convenient for most participants -- we apologize to those of you where this is very early or very late in the day.   As part of our continued focus on further improving PARMGEN and helping answer any... [More]

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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 company is a large Healthcare organization with ~5,000 employees, providing patient care to over 7500 people, & had revenue of 8 billion dollars last year. We are in the process of migrating several of our large patient applications to System z hardware... [More]

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On July 4, 2017 a new service stream enhancement (SSE) to zSecure Audit 2.2.1 has become generally available, adding additional compliance checks for the Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) for z/OS from the US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). This SSE focuses on adding Access Control Program (ACP) controls for systems protected through CA-ACF2. This builds on the ACF2_SENSDSN_ACCESS report type first provided in zSecure Audit 2.2.1.   Background The Security Technical Implementation Guide from DISA provides a... [More]

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