OMEGAMON enhanced 3270 user interface

The OMEGAMON® enhanced 3270 user interface retains the virtues of the earlier 3270 interfaces, while offering many of the features of the Tivoli Enterprise Portal in a native 3270 interface.

  • The ability to view plex-wide data, data from multiple systems, and data from multiple agents in the same interface or even the same workspace
  • The ability to modify product-provided workspaces to create customized views and queries, and or create new workspaces
  • The ability to set dynamic filters
  • The ability to define or modify thresholds that trigger status indicators
  • The ability to view near-term historical data.

One or more enhanced 3270 interface address spaces can be deployed on any given sysplex. A monitoring agent or a remote monitoring server must run in the same sysplex as the interface to enable discovery and communications with the associated hub monitoring server.

The OMEGAMON enhanced 3270 user interface requires that at least one hub monitoring server be configured. The scope of the data displayed by the interface is determined by the scope of the associated hub monitoring server. If a hub monitoring server configuration connects agents from systems that span multiple sysplexes, the enhanced 3270 interface displays data from multiple sysplexes.

Important: The enhanced 3270 user interface uses BPXmmm services, which are part of z/OS® UNIX System Services, for TCP/IP (connect, send, receive, and so forth). A user ID defined with an OMVS segment must be created for the enhanced 3270 user interface started task.

Self-describing agents (SDA) do not provide all the information that the Enhanced 3270 user interface requires to display its data. If your environment includes a high-availability hub monitoring server with SDA is enabled, consider placing the enhanced 3270 user interface in its own runtime environment (RTE). An e3270UI configured in its own RTE requires more DASD, but it give you more control over maintenance upgrades. If SDA is enabled and you do not want to place the e3270UI in its own RTE, place the e3270UI in an RTE with a remote monitoring server designated as a backup proxy and monitoring agents.