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OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS

Allow Omegamon AI for Db2 to rollout maintenance or upgrade by LPAR. Currently it's PLEX-wide, impacting customer rollout.

Overview The current design of the ISPF interface/FPEJINIT code prevents lpar-independent upgrades. IBM has for decades promoted lpar-independent upgrades. An opportunity exists to bring Omegamon for Db2 into the same migration family. ISPF calls ...

REQLOC filtering does not support longer IP names.

OMPE batch reporting has an include/exclude option that allows to filter on the REQLOC (requesting location). When the REQLOC is an IP address that is more than 16 char (very common with current addresses) the filter does NOT work. For example you...
27 days ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS Planned for future release

Automatically start up ATF Trace during start up OMPE Collector

You have the option to launch the ATF Trace when the OMPE Collector starts. This trace remains active (with the same normal ATF trace filters, such as PLAN and CORRID) and only intercepts and writes to the dataset when a certain threshold has been...
3 months ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS Not under consideration

Add ability to filter out data going to thread history

Request the ability to filter thread history collection to exclude threads with execution times under one second. Capturing these short‑running threads significantly increases the volume of thread history data while providing limited diagnostic va...
4 months ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS Future consideration

Rework Distributed activity reporting for Db2 acctg data in OMPE Batch reporting

As per Matthias' request, I am opening an aha idea for this. In Db2 accounting records you have a DRDA section where you see all the remote access involved in the thread or the rollup record. In an accounting trace report all is well, but when I r...
5 months ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS Future consideration

TOM The enhanced 3270 user interface does not display active traces

Active Trace SUmmary & Detail feature is not available on TOM The enhanced 3270 user interface. It is available on Classic interface but not in TOM.
6 months ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS Future consideration

Add Db2 Data Set Statistics information in EUI

We use data set statistics often to determine where additional indexes may be beneficial, in order to reduce IO by scans. We use the EUI the most in our shop. Having this information there would be most helpful to us.
11 months ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS Future consideration

Add IFCID 53 to ATF trace collection

Useful for catching SQLCODEs that prevent packages/threads from running (-805 for example).
4 months ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS Planned for future release

Total Latch count

Add a derived counter in Enhanced 3270UI workspace KDPLOK2 (attribute group KDP.STATLOKC) that is a sum of all the latches reported. The Total Latch counts can be an indicator of performance problems/degradations in Db2 z/OS.
4 months ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS Future consideration

Filter thread history by package name

On panel KDPHFIL3, have a selection criteria of Package Name to filter results
11 months ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS Future consideration