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December 2023, IBM Z Monitoring Suite 1.4.0

IBM Z Monitoring Suite includes the product components listed next.

IBM Z OMEGAMON Monitor for z/OS 5.6

IBM Z OMEGAMON Monitor for z/OS provides detailed monitoring and problem management for IBM zSystems. By combining metrics data that is collected from components such as IBM z/OS Resource Measurement Facility, Workload Manager, Coupling Facility, Cross System Coupling Facility, Global Enqueue, shared DASD, and USS workload, users can monitor and manage these key subsystems. It provides the visibility, usability, and performance that are required to make managing these environments and components more efficient and effective, preventing or reducing downtime due to outages.

IBM Z OMEGAMON Network Monitor 5.6

IBM Z OMEGAMON Network Monitor 5.6 helps you to proactively monitor and manage the network performance of z/OS® system resources and mission-critical applications. It senses poor or unstable network connections that hamper application performance and helps to pinpoint root causes to ensure high availability of services and improve user productivity. IBM Z OMEGAMON Network Monitor 5.6 enables the management of multiple IBM z/OS mainframe systems and network stacks from a single interface to improve user productivity and operational scalability.

IBM Z OMEGAMON Integration Monitor 5.6

IBM Z OMEGAMON Integration Monitor displays performance information from a variety of sources, including OMEGAMON monitors and third-party software, in a single location. It delivers near real-time and historical information and operating system and key subsystem performance. You can use a single-screen view of all situation alerts to rapidly identify the root-cause of complex issues involving multiple subsystems. IBM Z OMEGAMON Integration Monitor includes IBM Z OMEGAMON Data Provider and IBM RMF Operational Analytics:

• IBM Z OMEGAMON Data Provider makes OMEGAMON attributes available to applications and analytics platforms outside of OMEGAMON. OMEGAMON attributes are the metrics that OMEGAMON monitoring agents collect about the performance, behavior, and resource usage of systems and applications on z/OS. IBM Z OMEGAMON Data Provider extends the existing OMEGAMON attribute collection process by introducing output methods that you can use in addition to, or instead of, the OMEGAMON persistent data store (PDS):

  • JSON Lines over TCP. Example use: ingestion by analytics platforms such as Splunk and the Elastic Stack.
  • Prometheus endpoint. Example use: Grafana dashboards.
  • JSON in Apache Kafka topics. Example use: any Kafka consumer.

  IBM Z OMEGAMON Data Provider publishes attributes as they are collected. The data frequency is determined by your choice of attribute collection interval, from 1 minute to 1 day. IBM Z OMEGAMON Data Provider currently supports attributes from only one monitoring agent, IBM Z OMEGAMON Monitor for z/OS. However, IBM Z OMEGAMON Data Provider is designed to be extended to support other agents.

• IBM RMF Operational Analytics, also known as RMF OA, allows you to monitor the activity of your z/OS environment from a workstation through a modern and intuitive interface. RMF OA takes its input data from the Distributed Data Server (DDS) and provides sample dashboards and visualizations on the most used and expected Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). The information displayed is a subset of all the data collected from RMF reports. The contents of each collected RMF report is stored in a corresponding Elasticsearch index. These indexes allow the creation of archived data that is available indefinitely for data analytics purposes. From the sample dashboards and visualizations provided, you can define your own customized KPIs fitted to your environment. The Elasticsearch data structure and visualizations may change over time to provide a migration path to IBM Z® Common Data Provider.

IBM Z OMEGAMON for JVM 5.5.0

IBM Z OMEGAMON for JVM 5.5.0 monitors the health of client vital Java™ virtual machines (JVMs) that run on z/OS operating systems. With OMEGAMON for JVM, you can quickly detect problems and take action in real time to increase the speed of problem resolution.

IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS 5.5.0

IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS 5.5.0 provides storage management and corrective action capability to prevent storage-related outages. Administrators are more efficient with intelligent alerts, targeted reporting, and linkages to related tools by using common interfaces and processes. IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS 5.5.0 covers key hardware and software subsystems to maintain a healthy, efficient z/OS storage environment. Automated actions are based on comprehensive storage monitoring for z/OS I/O subsystem performance, space management and storage availability to help ensure optimal performance. Recently added capabilities use Zowe technology to deliver an enhanced storage administrator experience for real-time data set management.

IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS 5.6.0

IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS 5.6.0 is a performance monitor that provides subject matter experts, such as systems programmers, with the capability to manage CICS Transaction Server and CICS Transaction Gateway resources and workloads. It integrates with other members of the OMEGAMON portfolio to provide a powerful cross-subsystem problem determination tool set, helping subject matter experts manage and monitor their systems with ease.

IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS 5.5

IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS 5.5 is a performance monitor that provides subject matter experts, such as systems programmers, with the capability to manage IMS resources and workloads through integrated workspaces. These workspaces provide alerts to problem conditions, aid the user to determine the root-cause issue, and help in taking corrective action to minimize any costly impact to business-critical applications.

IBM OMEGAMON for Messaging on z/OS 7.5

IBM OMEGAMON for Messaging on z/OS 7.5 is a performance monitor that provides subject matter experts, such as systems programmers, with the capability to manage IBM MQ and IBM Integration Bus resources and workloads. It integrates with other offerings in the OMEGAMON portfolio to provide a powerful cross-subsystem problem determination toolset, helping subject matter experts manage and monitor their systems with ease.

IBM OMEGAMON for Db2 Performance Expert on z/OS 5.5.0

IBM OMEGAMON for Db2 Performance Expert on z/OS 5.5.0 enables users to assess the efficiency of Db2 and optimize its performance, combining sophisticated response time tracking, reporting, monitoring, stored procedure, and buffer pool analysis features, as well as expert database analysis functions.

IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Application Diagnostics on z/OS 7.1

IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Application Diagnostics on z/OS 7.1 provides deep diagnostic capabilities for JEE applications in three areas: operational monitoring, transaction analysis, and memory analysis. Each of these three areas provides a sharper focus on application performance problems.

IBM Service Management Unite 1.1.11

IBM Service Management Unite provides dashboards and consolidated views that streamline problem identification, isolation and restoration of business applications and services. It gives system programmers, operators, and administrators with a transparent view of system health status and allows for easy problem identification. The console enables operators to see monitoring alarm threshold events, called situations in OMEGAMON monitor, so that they can identify critical problems. Operators can quickly and confidently analyze, isolate, and diagnose problems by providing all relevant data in a single location. IBM Service Management Unite also enables operators to interact directly with the system by issuing commands and viewing results without going to a different console.

IBM Resource Measurement Facility

IBM Resource Measurement Facility (RMF) collects data and produces reports for activity in a sysplex. Among its other reports, it can use the data that is provided by z/OS Workload Manager to produce reports by service class and report class. IBM Resource Measurement Facility consists of a number of components. These include three monitor components (Monitor I, Monitor II, and Monitor III) that collect data from the sysplex and produce reports. Additionally, the Postprocessor component can produce reports by using IBM System Management Facility data from the three monitor components, as well as from other sources.

IBM Z ChatOps 1.1.4

IBM Z ChatOps provides ChatOps capabilities for your IBM Z environment. It includes a chatbot that gives users access to the information from Z systems management tools such as IBM Z System Automation and IBM® OMEGAMON® within popular collaboration platforms like Slack. IBM Z ChatOps can be used to notify the operations team in the chat tool about IBM Z events, including recommendations that are powered by machine learning, to help isolate and resolve problems quickly. IBM Z ChatOps leverages and integrates with IBM Service Management Unite for a broad access to IBM Z operations data. This also enables chat users to drill-down from the chatbot output to web-based dashboards with more information to help resolve problems fast.

IBM Discovery Library Adapter for z/OS 3.2

The excellent IBM® Discovery Library Adapter for z/OS® detects and discovers active z/OS resources and their connections and relationships. The Discovery Library Adapter for z/OS creates XML files (also referred to as “Books”) that can be used to understand the environment or can be processed by products such as IBM Tivoli® Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM), IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager (TBSM), and IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database (CCMDB), and IBM Z Resources Discovery Data Service (ZRD-DS).

IBM Z Resource Discovery Data Service 1.3.1

IBM Z Resource Discovery Data Service 1.3.1 enables hybrid cloud event correlation from OMEGAMON generated events with IBM Cloud Pack for Watson AIOps.

IBM Z Resource Discovery Visualization Service

The Visualization Service is a React UI component of IBM Z Resource Discovery, and can be embedded into the UI of a product to visualize data.

IBM Z Common Data Provider 5.1.1 with Kafka

The IBM Z® Common Data Provider provides the infrastructure for accessing IT operational data from z/OS® systems and streaming it to the analytics platform in a consumable format. It is a single data provider for sources of both structured and unstructured data, and it can provide a near real-time data feed of z/OS operational data, such as System Management Facilities (SMF) data, OMEGAMON® data, and z/OS log data to your analytics platform.