Join us on March 2, 2017 at 11AM EST as Kay Maggi Lead Developer for the OMEGAMON Messaging team will continue the series of Modernizing your OMEGAMON Environment.   z/OS systems management experts rely on having fast and accurate information about their enterprise to quickly identify problems, locate the root cause and take the appropriate actions. The OMEGAMON Enhanced 3270UI is the strategic interface for these subject matter experts to manage their z/OS infrastructure and key subsystems. To help new users become familiar with the... [More]

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Happy New Year from the OMEGAMON development team. We would like to invite you to our next installment of our Enhanced 3270UI Webcast Series on January 26 2017 at 11am EST which will have a specific focus on CICS monitoring and presented by lead developer, Mick Harris. OMEGAMON for CICS is a mature, robust and trusted product and recent enhancements - available only through the Enhanced 3270UI - deliver the function required for monitoring today's complex environments where CICS transaction interact with other subsystems such as MQ, DB2 and... [More]

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'Dear Rocky' answers your System z monitoring and performance tuning questions. Rocky McMahan, a Senior Software Performance Engineer in IBM Z Systems R&D, offers valuable tips to help you get more out of your monitoring software.     Dear Rocky, Our company recent switch over to OMEGAMON after using another monitoring product for over 15 years.  We are quickly learning more and more of the features of OMEGAMON but wasn't sure how we should go about to start monitoring our mainframe network activity and out... [More]

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'Dear Rocky' answers your z System monitoring and performance tuning questions. Rocky McMahan, a Senior Software Performance Engineer in IBM z Systems R&D, offers valuable tips to help you get more out of your monitoring software.   Dear Rocky, I read your response from last months column about how to use situations with OMEGMAON for z/OS to proactive monitor our Operating systems across the enterprise.  Do you have such suggestions for using OMEGAMON for DB2 to monitor our large database instances?   Thank you... [More]

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'Dear Rocky' answers your System z monitoring and performance tuning questions. Rocky McMahan, a Senior Software Performance Engineer in IBM Z Systems R&D, offers valuable tips to help you get more out of your monitoring software.   Dear Rocky, My team works for a large financial institution with over 100,000 employees and revenue of over 20 billion dollars in 2015.   We're so excited to start monitoring our enterprise applications with our recent purchase of the OMEGAMON(R) XE Management Suite for z/OS... [More]

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Come and get the new Dashboard Edition (DE) Situation Status Tree now as it is ready for your use.  For 3270 focused z/OS users the Tivoli OMEGAMON Dashboard Edition on z/OS now includes the enhanced 3270 User Interface Situation Status Tree.  Use the out of the box overview dashboard to visually view the last 4 hours of near term history and current status of your situations (exception condition alerts) .   You need to install PTF UA77224 to the DE (MV310 FMID). Then for the OMNIMON BASE component you need the OB730 level... [More]

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Today IBM Service Management Unite is announced as a new component in the IBM Service Management Suite V1.3.  This component will help z/OS sites manage by exception (Situations). It allows access to exception information from IBM Automation and Monitoring products.  This access can be via mobile devices too.       Here is an example of a Dashboard listing current monitoring and automation exceptions for a site:                              ... [More]

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Tivoli Enterprise Reporter, TEP, situations can alert you when troubling things are happening but they must first get your attention.  Do you really want to be staring at a TEP screen all day to see when a situation becomes true?  Probably not.  You have many other things to do with your time.  This blog describes how to add voice prompts to your situations so if your TEP monitor has an active speaker it can sing out when important situations become true and get your attention. How do I use sound prompts with situations... [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, I work on a team of operation analysts for a large food and manufacturing company that employs approximately 35,000 workers and had net revenue of over $5 billion dollars in 2013.  Our products are also distributed throughout 53 countries.   ... [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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   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 System's Programmer for a large specialty insurance company with over $100 billion in total assets and approximately 65,000 employees.We run various  IBM® Tivoli® OMEGAMON® products to monitor our 4 - way production Parallel Sysplex running z/OS® 1.12, IMS®V11, CICS® 4.2, DB2® V9 , and... [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 large global health services company with over 32,00 employees, operates in 30 countries   around the world, has 70 million customers, and $22 billion in revenue. We  use several IBM® Tivoli® OMEGAMON® products to monitor our 8 - way production Parallel Sysplex... [More]

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Recently the OMEGAMON XE for CICS agent code for v4.2.0 was updated to fully implement the Change in value function for CICS attributes in situations.     As we all know, situations can have conditions such as TRAN=CEMT or COUNT>10; similarly there is a "delta" condition actually called "Change in value" so the condition would be Change-in-value for COUNT>2. So, if the COUNT changes by more than 2 during the situation sampling interval then the situation fires.     By applying the correct PTF (UA63181) for APAR... [More]

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