Today we announce the addition of OMEGAMON XE for IMS on z/OS to the existing OMEGAMON Performance Management Suite Beta program.  We are looking for customers and business partners who are interested in working with us to shape and validate the new capabilities we are developing in OMEGAMON XE for IMS. The beta program is a great way for you to evaluate the value of new OMEGAMON enhancements as they are being developed, and to interact directly with the OMEGAMON Development team.   Program support includes receiving assistance... [More]

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In OMEGAMON XE for IMS v510 we released our first content in the new Enhanced 3270 User Interface. One of the very useful things that this interface allows us to do is show you information across your entire IMSplex – even across LPARs - on one screen. Lets start on our main workspace, KIPSTART. We'll be looking at the first subpanel, which shows a list of all of the IMSplexes in our environment, focusing on IMSplex IA1C for this scenario:   Already, we notice that somewhere within the IMSplex, a locking condition has occurred.... [More]

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This affects any address spaces that execute PGM=KLV, namely:    z/OS ITM TEMS, z/OS OMEGAMON TEMAs, and z/OS OMEGAMON CUAs   Previously a TIME RESET command would need to be issued to each address space after the z/OS system local clock was changed. With APAR OA46343, the code will check every quarter of an hour for a change of more than two minutes, forward or backward, in the z/OS system local clock; if a change is detected, the ITM Engine clock is resynchronised with the z/OS system local time.      Using... [More]

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Viewlets have been added to the OMEGAMON XE for Messaging for z/OS media gallery wiki page for the v7.3 release.  You may be interested in watching these to learn more about the embedded data and near term history features.  They are short and fast to download and watch. Here are links to the topics recently added to the product's Media Gallery page: Finding the occurrence time of a channel issue with the MQ Enhanced 3270 user interface : This viewlet shows... [More]

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What screen size should you use? If your screen size is too small, there may be a lot of meaningful information off to the right or bottom of your screen.  Personally, I find 62x160 is a good size for all enhanced 3270UI uses.  If your monitor is too small to comfortably accommodate that size (and getting more difficult with every birthday!), then 43x80 is good for *most* enhanced 3270UI uses. If there are workspaces with many subpanels or many thousands of rows of data (such as historical summary displays), 62x160 might be better for... [More]

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As product manager for IBM® Tivoli® OMEGAMON® XE for DB2® Performance Expert on z/OS®, I’m often asked by customers and the field alike how does IBM’s “Expert” offering differ from the “Monitor” offering?  Certainly there’s a concise list of features that differentiate Performance Expert from Performance Monitor, but there’s more to it than that. IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2 Performance Expert on z/OS can be described as a single tool that allows you to monitor, analyze... [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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What's new: The OMEGAMON Enhanced 3270 UI  allows the definition of a Secondary HUB TEMS.   If you wish to periodically  monitor a HUB TEMS,  in another data center for example,  then defining a secondary HUB TEMS is one solution.    Once a secondary HUB TEMS is defined  switching  between the primary and secondary  HUB TEMS is easy using the switch command.   The secondary HUB TEMS will  also become the active HUB TEMS,  if for example,  the primary HUB... [More]

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Join the OMEGAMON XE for Mainframe Networks development team for an Early Access Program web conference on  November 20, 2014 at 10:00AM Eastern . The development team will request your feedback on the release content and design decisions currently under consideration. z/OS network SMEs and OMEGAMON administrators will benefit from attending this session and participating in the Early Access Program. We look forward to seeing you there. =-=- =-=- =-=- =-=- =-=- =-=- =-=- =-=- =-=- =-=- =-=- =-=- What is the Early Access Program... [More]

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