Introduction
A recent OMEGAMON CICS update provides new capabilities aimed at improving the user experience, making it easier to see important tasks and utilizing CICS system grouping the customer has already defined. This blog entry describes new features and function enhancements that are available for IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS V5.6.0 Fix Pack 2 with APAR OA64307.
New features
Background tasks
Most CICS environments have transactions which run on a permanent basis, such as MQ listener tasks, Pipeline listener task, or OMEGAMON tasks. These tasks are rarely of concern when looking at problems.
OMEGAMON has added the capability (via CICS control functions) to define tasks which will not be displayed for any region.
Once a list is set up, OMEGAMON will use it to filter task summary screens (for example, Active Tasks, FIND command outputs) and will not display specified background tasks. Background tasks will still be monitored, but they will not be displayed.
In this example, Background Task List is set now and using the command FIND ACT * will return all active tasks for the context in use.
This new feature enablement is done via “CICS Control Function” screen. Option C on the CICS region