We are pleased to announce several new releases to key IT Service Management products for IBM Z.  IBM Service Management Suite for z/OS V1.5, IBM OMEGAMON Performance Management Suite for z/OS V5.5.0, IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS Management Suite together with the individual offerings for z/OS, Networks, CICS, IMS and Messaging provide a number of enhancements to enable clients to efficiently manage and optimize the availability of critical systems and applications on IBM Z.     In today's digital economy, ensuring the smooth... [More]

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We are pleased to announce the beta program for the latest updates for Service Management Suite for z/OS and OMEGAMON Performance Management Suite for z/OS. Building on the recent V5.4.0 updates delivered in late 2016 for DB2, Java Runtime and Storage monitoring , the new beta contains updates for z/OS, Networks, CICS, IMS and Messaging.   In addition to product-specific updates, including the delivery of dozens of customer enhancement requests, the OMEGAMON family of offerings have focused on simplifying the deployment process , reducing... [More]

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Hi everyone, We hope all is well.  Thank you for your ongoing support of our IBM Service Management Suite for z/OS and IBM OMEGAMON Performance Management Suite's EAP programs and for your attendance of our l ast PARMGEN EAP held in 1Q17 .     Schedule : The PARMGEN development team will be hosting an EAP web conference on Thursday, June 29, 2017, at 10:00-11:00 a.m. US EDT. June 29th Focus Topics : As part of our continued focus on our suites' deployment simplification, we want to provide a roadmap update to various... [More]

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Thanks for your attendance of our previous z Management Suites Deployment Customer Open Q&A teleconference call held on May 10, 2017 .  The cumulative 2015-2017 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... [More]

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New functions have been introduced and covered in the updates to the OMEGAMON® XE for IMS™ V530 . PTF UA 91324 (March 2017) introduces the following new feature and enhancement: Database Details workspaces You can view information in the new Database Detail workspaces such as the date and time an error occurred and the type of error, which enables you to resolve errors faster and more efficiently. You can also view the health and efficiency of your database depending on its type: For data entry databases (DEDBs), you can view... [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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Thanks for your attendance of the previous OMEGAMON deployment customer open Q&A teleconference call held on January 11, 2017 .  The cumulative 2016-2017 meeting minutes, which include the Q&A low-level details from our Jan. 11th 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... [More]

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Thanks for your attendance of the previous OMEGAMON deployment customer open Q&A teleconference call held on October 26, 2016 .  The cumulative 2016 meeting minutes, which include the Q&A low-level details from our October 26th 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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We are pleased to announce a new round of updates for IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for IMS on z/OS V5.3.0 with the arrival of Interim Feature 2 this week. This delivery provides updates to OMEGAMON Enhanced 3270UI workspaces for database analysis. It is delivered through PTF UA83408. You can now use the new Database Summary workspaces to monitor all databases in your environment - no matter the type - in one easy to access location. The workspace is found from the System Resources menu (option I) off any IMS... [More]

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The CICS Development Center on developerWorks has a series of short, informative podcasts called "Did you say mainframe?" that explores a number of topics to help you learn about the latest updates from IBM and understand how to get the most out of your deployments. We recently recorded a session focused on OMEGAMON Monitoring for JVM released earlier this year. If you're an existing OMEGAMON user who is interested in seeing what value this new agent can bring to your monitoring environment, or you are being... [More]

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Operational Insights at a Glance – the journey begins! On June 30, 2016, we released IBM Operations Analytics for z Systems v2.2.0 Interim Feature 2 . With this Interim Feature, tedious searching through volumes of operational data is a thing of the past. The new Problem Insights dashboard puts key operational issues at your fingertips: Summarization of key issues per sysplex. A Problem Insights table that provides a synopsis of the key issues that are affecting the  sysplexes that you select. Suggested Actions that offer actionable... [More]

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Thanks for your attendance of the previous OMEGAMON deployment customer open Q&A teleconference call held on May 25, 2016 .  The cumulative monthly meeting minutes, which include the Q&A low-level details, are available in a downloadable PDF from the following link in SMC z Systems community: URL: http ://w ww.i bm.c om/d evel oper work s/co mmun ity/ grou ps/s ervi ce/h tml/ comm unit yvie w?co mmun ityU uid= 5e65 990a -969 0-42 e2-9 3b1- c226 7be7 620c #ful lpag eWid getI d=Wa a62f 018a 05a_ 4ca4 _b61 2_49 ffee 8039 8e&f ile=... [More]

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Thanks for your attendance of the previous OMEGAMON deployment customer open Q&A teleconference call held on April 27, 2016 .  The cumulative monthly meeting minutes, which include the Q&A low-level details, are available in a downloadable PDF from the following link in SMC System z community: URL: http ://w ww.i bm.c om/d evel oper work s/co mmun ity/ grou ps/s ervi ce/h tml/ comm unit yvie w?co mmun ityU uid= 5e65 990a -969 0-42 e2-9 3b1- c226 7be7 620c #ful lpag eWid getI d=Wa a62f 018a 05a_ 4ca4 _b61 2_49 ffee 8039 8e&f... [More]

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Thanks for your attendance of the previous PARMGEN customer open Q&A teleconference call held on February 17, 2016 .  We are scheduling the next monthly PARMGEN customer open Q&A webcast call, planned to be held on Wednesday, March 30th @ 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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