Using the Preferences For All CICSplex Agents subpanel

The Preferences For All CICSplex Agents subpanel contains the values that you specify to control which OMEGAMON AI for CICS agent will monitor a CICSplex, and it enables all history information for a CICSplex to be available at one agent.

Attributes used to assign a CICSplex agent

The following CICSplex Agent Preferences attributes are used to control which OMEGAMON AI for CICS agent will monitor a CICSplex:
CICSplex Agent Preferred SMF Identifier
The SMF Identifier where the CICSplex agent is to be initialized. Valid input is up to four characters, a mixture of 0-9, A-Z, $, #, @. It can consist solely of numbers. It might be a single asterisk but not have asterisks otherwise (no generic specification allowed).
CICSplex Agent Preferred XM Number
The number in the RKCPXMnn DD card to be used, if there are multiple agent address spaces started at the LPAR indicated by CICSplex Agent Preferred SMF Identifier. Valid input is 00-15 or a single asterisk.
CICSplex Agent Timeout Tolerance
The number of minutes that a CICS® agent will wait for the CICSplex agent to initialize at the indicated LPAR. If the CICSplex agent does not start up in that period of time, any other OMEGAMON AI for CICS address space will initialize it. Valid input is 0-30.
CICSplex Name
The name of the CICSplex whose agent preferences are being displayed.
The following requirements are used in CICSplex agent preferences:
  • The default *DFLT agent preference cannot be deleted.
  • The CICSplex Name attribute must conform to z/OS conventions, A-Z, $, #, @, 0-9. The first character cannot be 0-9 or the hash (#) character.
  • A single asterisk (wild card) can be used in the SMF Identifier and XM Number attributes.