Embedded data

The Enhanced 3270UI embedded data feature brings relevant data from other products into the workspace of the hosting product in a seamless manner that can enable the user to navigate in context directly to other product workspaces.

Each IBM® provided workspace within the Enhanced 3270 user interface (enhanced 3270UI) is hosted by a specific product, for example, OMEGAMON® for z/OS®, CICS®, IMS, Db2®. A workspace from the OMEGAMON for z/OS product, for example, will show details about a z/OS address space.

The integration of relevant data from other products by the embedded data feature can speed up problem determination and help you to better understand the data. Embedded data makes it easier to diagnose problems, as relevant data is automatically provided by other monitors when available. This presentation of data helps you to learn the relationships between components and data.

An enhanced 3270UI workspace typically consists of one or more sub panels.

When a workspace from one product includes a sub panel definition from another product, the sub panel appears if:

The other product is installed and configured for the current environment.
The agent for the other product is running and reporting to the same Tivoli® Monitoring environment.
The other product has data relevant to the data that is being displayed by the hosting product.

The user does not do anything to see this additional data. If it is there, it appears and if not then it does not.

For example, you might be looking at the OMEGAMON for z/OS Address Space Details workspace for a specific address space. If the address space you are looking at is a CICS region that IBM Tivoli Monitoring knows about, you can see data from the CICS agent on the workspace if the OMEGAMON for z/OS Address Space Details workspace includes an appropriate sub panel from the OMEGAMON for CICS product.

Figure 1. Representation of a workspace from one product that contains embedded data from another product.