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Display Inactive DB2 Threads

It's not possible to effectively and efficiently manage a DB2 environment without visibility to inactive threads. My company has become accustomed to viewing those through our mainframe monitoring tools. As a new customer of Omegamon we would like...
7 months ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Extend the Value of Omegamon Near-Term History

The Performance Database tables holds history information about Db2 activity, and the sequential output dataset created by NTH can be used as the input to create LOAD files with data to populate most of the tables, but not all. The problem is tha...
over 6 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Agent O2 should run on zIIP

We see that agent O2 is consuming more and more CSU, but very little runs on zIIP. Please see other Omegamon agents (C5 and RTEMS) with high CSU usage and using more zIIP. Regards Andrea Strixner
about 5 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Postgresql 16 support

We'd like an Optim release compatible with Postgresql 16 datasources for TDM and DP.
over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Adjust login messages in LSF Explorer for better troubleshooting

We are facing a strange behaviour with the messages for a failed login at LSF Explorer Server. There are three scenarios: The user is not able to the system on the server where LSF Explorer is installed - hence the user is not able to login to LSF...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Leaving certain Omegamon KD2 parameters empty in the configuration will cause RTE failures.

Why: Validating Omegamon configuration parameters in the configuration manager/PARMGEN will prevent failures in the RTE, and thus production issues. The issue: Currently Omegamon KD2 parameters are not validated for being left empty or undefined. ...
10 months ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enable TDM to create a trusted connection and user switching

In a Db2 environment with very strict security and RCAC enabled to secure data on the row level, it is needed to know the actual userid that is driving the request. Application servers usually connect using a system account and this is also common...
10 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Change job submit time to include milliseconds for precision.

Job submit time to include milliseconds for precision. Instead of HH:MM:SS, make it like 12:29:05.1234. This will enable this column to be used as a unique identifier when generating data in an incremental fashion. We are extracting the RTM data a...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 4 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...
about 5 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Making Historical Intervals accurate

At TOM there is some very useful views for Historical. And there is a way to create/alter sampling intervals and customer wants to choose 1 minute intervals as the most detailed view. This makes sense in the development where the price to pay is w...
over 1 year ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 1 Not under consideration