At the end of December 2023, the eighth functional APAR OA65724 /PTF UJ94340 was released. Like APAR 6, it will be disruptive to existing customers as there are mandatory changes required. New customers to ODP can install easily. The web based documentation remains at: https:/...
ODP is used within the OMEGAMON agents to stream performance metrics to a wide variety of analytic servers to enable customers to gain additional insights on the performance of their environment. While ODP was a new offering within performance monitoring suites when first introduced in 2021 ,...
Have you experienced a problem where ODP going into an Elastic environment has run out of space within Elastic or made Elastic go into “read only mode” and not accept new records? If you have, then read on for some ways to correct this situation. When ODP was introduced, additional...
AI is where everything is going today. The goal of OMEGAMON Data Provider has been to feed z/OS metrics derived by OMEGAMON Agents to as many analytic platforms as possible. Up to this point, ODP has supported TCP, Kafka and Prometheus connections to a wide variety of analytic platforms....
AI is coming, AI is coming! And it has arrived within several of the IBM Z OMEGAMON agents. OMEGAMON AI Insights is a new feature that can be added to OMEGAMON agent offerings in order to establish performance baselines and from there, detect anomalies against that baseline. This feature has a...
As mentioned in the overview blog , there are some breaking changes introduced by APAR OA64880/PTF UJ93165 . This blog provides the details and a subsequent blog describes the migration steps necessary for existing ODP users. OMEGAMON® Data Broker Minimum supported Zowe™...
As mentioned in the overview blog , there are some new features in APAR OA64880/PTF UJ93165 that are not disruptive to existing ODP users. This blog provides the details. OMEGAMON® Data Broker Updated Zowe™ cross-memory server While you must update the Zowe server...
The latest ODP enhancement, the sixth functional APAR, is now available via APAR OA64880/PTF UJ93165 . For existing ODP consumers , it’s important to note that this is a disruptive install . Deployment and operational behaviors have changed and as a result a migration to the new...
As mentioned in both the overview blog and disruptive changes blog , there are actions required for existing OMEGAMON Data Provider users in order to operate at the latest service level. If you are a new user, no need to worry about these actions. Follow the directions in the Install...
Instana provides a terrific application performance monitoring capability, that is now enhanced with the inclusion of z/OS traces and metrics. This integration comes via Instana Observability for IBM z/OS . The metrics are provided through the connection with the OMEGAMON Data Provider that...