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OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS

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zIIP enables FPECMAIN

Processing huge volume of DB2 Accounting records require significant amount of GCP CPU, DB2PM has become a less attractive product in terms of processing costs. To maintain the product's attractiveness, portion of processing should be made zIIP el...
over 2 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 2 Future consideration

e3270 needs to show which packages is invoked in a thread (like Db2 Classic)

In Omegamon Db2 v5.4 enhanced 3270 interface there isn't provided a way to see which packages has been invoked in a given thread : Neither in active threads (beneath panel KDPTHD52) Nor in Thread History (beneath KDPHISTL) The curren
almost 3 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 1 Future consideration

better support for filter capabilities

The Customer manages 100+ DB2 systems, they have to repetatively enter filter commands in the active thread display (so that only the relevant information is displayed) which is often quite different for different Db2 systems. They would like: a) ...
almost 3 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Batch interface to omegamon

There should be an interface that allows the user to take specific actions via a z/OS job and capture the screen results in a z/OS dataset. This will allow a user to create a standard job to take any action they routinely execute and capture the r...
over 3 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

provide a parameter in exception profiling job

Please refer to case: TS004001032 The exception profiling job failed if the input data includes one of the following data: includes multiple systems SMF records Db2 SMF data other than IFCIDs (1,2,3) There are two workarounds: run OMPE RECTRACE wi...
over 3 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Unable to determine status with in thread summary sight

In the THREAD-Summary-Sight of the product you see the threads of a Data-Sharing System. The problem is the content of the column 'STATUS' of the thread looking from the remote side. This status changes from 'IN-SQL-CALL' to 'IN-DB2'. But this...
over 3 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Specify Application Trace

Customer is complaining that he is unable to perform traces on DB2 threads coming from the distributed side. These threads arrive all to DB2 with the same plan name ('DISTSERV'), and the only way to tell them apart is to use the Correlation ID (CO...
over 3 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

OMPE Extended support expert not available in TEP

OmPE Extended Support Expert (SW) confirmed that OmPE Classic ZOJA2 panel's "% IN USE" field is not available on TEP. RFE http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=31043
over 3 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

Allow object analysis to have interval value

We've been told a few times by IBM that by default, we should not start the Object Analysis (OA) function of Omegamon for DB2 at product startup. The main reason being it is too costly - CPU-wise - to run all the time if nobody will look at the da...
over 3 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Highest number of data recording value

In TEP section "DB2 States Attributes" we have a field that informs of the current number of open data sets. However Omegamon provides this info based on the value obtained at a given moment (snapshot). The requirement is to have the information f...
over 3 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Not under consideration