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OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS

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Information about Fast Traversal Index Count

Application DBA's and Developers can't verify the usage of FTB and if there has been any CPU reduction or reduction in numer of getpages. Omegamon have metrics about SQL (SQL count, n/o getpages and CPU). These metrics should also include number o...
about 1 year ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Omegamon PE Client - Non-admin install option

Admin access to company workstations is not an option any more. This is a call to provide a non-admin install option going forward for the OMPE PE Workstation Client.
over 2 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 1 Not under 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

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

View thread history across data sharing group

can not view thread history for members of the same data-sharing group RFE http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=82205
over 3 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enhancements to NTH in the TOM

We are running OMEGAMON for DB2 V5R3 and have recently installed PTF UI50913 that makes Near Term History available in the TOM. However, we are noticing that there is some functionality that can be found in the CUA that is not yet available in the...
over 3 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Not under consideration