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OMEGAMON XE for IMS adds new situations and exceptions, historical trending and support for OTMA functions
from CCR2, Issue 4 - 2005
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James Berry, development manager of the IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON for IMS products, contributed to this product update. |
Keeping your IMS™ systems running at peak performance means knowing when the first signs of trouble enter your environment. To help you achieve that goal, the latest enhancements to IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON® XE for IMS on z/OS® add numerous exceptions and situations that can let you more easily tailor related alerts—and potentially improve performance.
The software update also offers historical trending to give you a broader perspective on your IMS operations, help you fine-tune those initiatives and prevent recurring problems that can slow transaction times. New support for Open Transaction Manager Access (OTMA) can quickly reveal related performance bottlenecks, as well.
Current users of OMEGAMON XE for IMS V100 and OMEGAMON XE for IMSplex V220 can now download the latest enhancements.
New product-provided situations and exceptions add flexibility
IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for IMS (and IMSplex) on z/OS significantly expands the amount and type of data now available to users. You can set thresholds and alerts based on 58 new exceptions. To support these additions, 16 new tables have been added to show information on dependent regions, external subsystems, IMS I/O, logical terminals, extended recovery and VSAM/OSAM subpools. You can see fast path information such as system information, regions, balancing groups, DEDBs, MSDBs and VSO data spaces and areas. OMEGAMON XE for IMS also now provides 65 new situations for the most critical of these exceptions, and you can easily create related alerts.
With the added support, current OMEGAMON XE users can view these new tables, statistics and alerts without opening a 3270 session through their underlying OMEGAMON II® monitors. OMEGAMON II users can upgrade to OMEGAMON XE knowing all the exceptions they rely on are now available through the OMEGAMON XE integrated interface.
See performance trends with new History Reporting feature
IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for IMS on z/OS also now supports historical reporting to provide a long-term perspective of IMS performance. With it, you can see and analyze use of key resources such as CPU, LPARS, I/O and storage over time to spot system anomalies, recurring problems and other patterns.
The History Reporting feature can help you measure workload growth and change, forecast hardware capacity and balance application workloads. You can identify application CPU, I/O, disk space statistics and network characteristics. The ability to also retrieve data intervals from various tables can help you better analyze performance and fine-tune operations.
Enhanced support for OTMA improves productivity
The latest enhancements in V100 let you display relevant OTMA statistics without issuing multiple console commands. Now, using built-in commands, you can quickly determine if OTMA is active, as well as current connections and active clients. You can also see QCNT information to learn more quickly where bottlenecks hamper performance as transactions flow between your IMS systems and MVS applications.
Additionally, new support for shared queues now provides summary information for items on the OTMA Ready Queue by TMEMBER and TPIPE. That information can help ensure workload is processed efficiently and that transaction throughput remains uncompromised.
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