What's new in V5.5.0 (September 2017)

IBM OMEGAMON II (CUA) interfaces are no longer supported, so the relevant messages, PARMGEN parameters, and commands are removed. You can instead use OMEGAMON Enhanced 3270 user interface.

The network response time of predefined VTAM® LUs (also known as end-to-end response time) is deprecated in this release.

Groups can no longer be defined as LU. Related commands such as RESP LU, RSP LU, and CNT LU are discontinued. See Command reference for more information about the commands that are displayed through OMEGAMON for CICS (3270).

Due to the removal of support for network response time, ETE_INTERVAL and ETE_FREQUENCY in Global Options are ignored.

The DATA_STORE_TYPE parameter now can be specified as Auto, which simplifies the process of defining how the data for task history collection is saved. You are allowed to have one global file for many monitored CICS regions.

When DATA_STORE_TYPE is specified as Auto, it indicates that OMEGAMON automatically chooses between DSPACE and FILEOCMP. The value FILEOCMP is used if the file, which is specified for a CICS region exists. If no file matches the definition, then the value DSPACE is used.

New in V5.5.0, OMEGAMON for CICS on z/OS supports the definition of service level analysis for OMEGAMON in the Enhanced 3270 user interface (enhanced 3270UI).

The SLA feature provides the capability, for authorized users, to set workload performance thresholds to monitor your CICS transactions by using the enhanced 3270UI. The SLA feature provides the capability to define service classes, workloads and service policies. The SLA main panel provides you with intuitive guide to other corresponding panels. For more information, see Viewing the Service Level Configuration panel

The monitoring support for CICS TS V5.4.0 asynchronous transaction feature is now added to the OMEGAMON for CICS enhanced 3270UI.

This feature provides the capability to view if a task uses asynchronous processing and to find all other tasks that are related by asynchronous processing. With this feature, you can monitor the performance of asynchronous transactions in real time.

The CONTEXT command is provided to display groups of CICS regions other than the members of a CICSplex. You can switch to an LPAR context, which will display the regions on a specific LPAR. You can also switch to a user-defined CICS group. When a context is set, all subsequent FIND commands can search the context rather than the selected CICSplex.

The context command can be entered in the CONTEXT CONTEXT SCOPE format, where CONTEXT is the type of group (CICSplex, LPAR, and USERGRP) and SCOPE is the group name (CICSplex name, the LPAR SMFID, or the user group name). For example, CONTEXT LPAR MVSA is entered to set the context to all the regions on the LPAR with SMFID MVSA. You can enter this command from any CICS workspace that has the CICSplex name in the upper right corner of panels.

Entering CONTEXT command without any parameters displays the Context Command Usage panel. In this panel, you can directly select the context values.

The SIT suffix and the CICS SIT parameters are now displayed for the current CICS region in the enhanced 3270UI.

This feature can be used to view the name of the SIT table that is being used and the values of the CICS SIT parameters within the enhanced 3270UI.

OMEGAMON for CICS on z/OS now supports transaction class summary in the enhanced 3270UI.

Transaction class summary provides the capability to check the status of transaction classes within a CICS region such as current active tasks, peak tasks, the number of tasks in queue, and queue limit. This information can be used to check whether tasks are being queued in the system. The transaction class summary feature also allows users to view task maximum limit and transaction class limit and to change them if authorized.

The enhanced 3270UI provides the ability for authorized users to view and modify areas of CICS tasks (MLST and MZAP).

In V5.5.0, enhancements are made to CICS active task summary so that the current storage usage for each transaction in a specific CICS region is displayed. The amount of storage that is used above or below the line is provided, which helps you identify the next action to take.

The detailed storage statistics on a specific historical task can be viewed within the enhanced 3270UI. This feature can be used to view the details on the storage that is used by historical tasks and to easily identify task exceptions.

OMEGAMON for CICS on z/OS now supports VSAM usage statistics for the enhanced 3270UI workspaces. With VSAM usage statistics, you can view the number of records for data component and index component of a particular VSAM file.

Start time and start date are now displayed in the Task History panels in the enhanced 3270UI. This enhancement results in accurate start time for tasks.