Introducing OMEGAMON AI for CICS

OMEGAMON AI for CICS is a remote monitoring agent that runs on z/OS operating systems.

It helps you anticipate performance problems and warns you when critical events take place on your site's CICS environments by offering a central point of management for CICS Transaction Server (CICS TS) instances and CICSplex groups.

When running under the Tivoli Enterprise Portal, OMEGAMON AI for CICS offers a central point of management for CICS TS and provides a comprehensive means for gathering the information you need to detect and prevent problems within your CICS region or CICSplex.

This data enables you to perform the following tasks:

  • Collect and analyze reliable, up-to-the-second data that allows you to make faster, better informed, operating decisions
  • Manage all CICS regions from a single point to identify problems at any time
  • Balance workloads across various regions
  • Track performance against goals
  • Exploit user-defined and predefined situations based on thresholds to raise different types of alerts

OMEGAMON AI for CICS provides data on both individual CICS regions and logical grouping of CICS regions in a CICSplex. You can classify CICS regions into a CICSplex instances using simple rules or you can reuse definitions you might already have if you use CICSPlex System Manager.

You can view the data provided by OMEGAMON AI for CICS through various user interfaces:

The OMEGAMON enhanced 3270 user interface enables you to monitor the health and welfare of your systems and subsystems, execute deep-dive diagnosis on operational problems, and provides you with a method to diagnose and resolve problems when alternative interfaces are not accessible. The OMEGAMON enhanced 3270 user interface provides CICSplex reporting for service level and transaction analysis.

New and migrated features allow users of OMEGAMON for CICS (3270) to migrate to the architecture without losing significant function.

OMEGAMON AI for CICS has the capability to monitor CICS Transaction Gateway (CICS TG). Support is provided for CICS TG in the form of a monitoring component, OMEGAMON AI for CICS, of the base IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS product.

Used in conjunction with other OMEGAMON monitoring products, the data, analyses, and alerts presented by OMEGAMON AI for CICS help you develop a holistic view of your entire computing enterprise from a single console.

This section explains how OMEGAMON AI for CICS works, describes the resources it offers, and provides examples of how it can be used to monitor, analyze, and manage operating systems, workloads, and shared resources in a sysplex environment.