Since PTF UJ95574 (APAR OA66051 ) you may have noticed a new job output DD in IBM Z Monitoring Configuration Manager, called Exclude report - EXCLRPT. In this blog, I’m going to explain what it is, how it works and how you can benefit from it. Background When GENERATE action is run,...
Modernizing Mainframe Network Management with OMEGAMON and AI-Powered Analytics I ntroduction Modern mainframes are powerful, secure, and essential for mission-critical operations. But in today’s hybrid IT environments, network reliability and security across...
The initial version of IBM Z Monitoring Configuration Manager was released in 2020. At that time, it included just a few basic actions CREATE, DISCOVER, GENERATE, DELETE, and MIGRATE - which were sufficient for creating new runtime environments (RTE), migrating from older PARMGEN to...
What is a SYSVAR-enabled environment in OMEGAMON? SYSVAR environments are the runtime environments which do not fully resolve configuration parameter values during generation. This gives you the ability to plug in system dependent symbols in your runtime environments. In addition to PARMLIB...
As organizations continue to rely on IBM Db2 for z/OS to drive mission-critical workloads, performance monitoring and optimization tools like IBM OMEGAMON for Db2 play a crucial role in ensuring efficiency and reliability. With the latest enhancements introduced in Q1 of 2025 ...
The IBM Z® OMEGAMON® AI for JVM engineering team is excited to introduce IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM, 6.1.0 Fix Pack 3 (APAR OA67169 and PTF UJ96884 ), with the following enhancements: - WebSphere Application Server Metrics - z/OS Connect API Provider...
As we move into 2025, I wanted to take the opportunity to summarize the OMEGAMON Db2 enhancements delivered in 2024. The Blog is structured according to our quarterly release cadence and is listing customer ideas we implemented, Db2 Function Level currency items, Db2 Currency items...
The Tivoli Enterprise Portal (TEP) is one of the graphical user interfaces in IBM OMEGAMON for Db2 Performance Expert on z/OS. When launching the TEP using Java Webstart clients, the signed jar files are validated for security and code integrity purposes. The existing Java Certificate will...
With the recently shipped APAR OA66898 PTF UJ96474 IBM OMEGAMON e3270UI there is a new function that allows end users to see if there are any connection issues when pulling data from agents and building a display. In order to turn on this function you must first update your preferences under...
IBM Z® OMEGAMON® AI for Storage 6.1 Fix Pack 1, APAR OA67240 , and PTF UJ96553 have now shipped. This deliverable provides the following to the product: zIIP offloading for the “All Datasets” and “Dataset Attributes” features Reduce the size of Payload for Realtime Dataset...