IBM® Tivoli® OMEGAMON® XE for CICS® on z/OS® (OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS) is a remote monitoring agent that runs on z/OS operating systems. It assists you in anticipating performance problems and warns you when critical events take place on your site's CICS environments by offering a central point of management for CICS Transaction Server instances and CICSplex groups.
When running under the Tivoli Enterprise Portal, IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS offers a central point of management for CICS Transaction Server and provides a comprehensive means for gathering the information you need to detect and prevent problems within your CICS region or CICSplex.
This data enables you to perform the following tasks:
OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS provides data on both individual CICS regions and logical grouping of CICS regions in a CICSplex. You can classify CICS regions into a CICSplex instances using simple rules or you can reuse definitions you might already have if you use CICSPlex System Manager.
You can view the data provided by OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS through various user interfaces:
The OMEGAMON Enhanced 3270 User Interface enables you to monitor the health and welfare of your systems and subsystems, execute deep-dive diagnosis on operational problems, and provides you with a method to diagnose and resolve problems when alternative interfaces are not accessible. The OMEGAMON Enhanced 3270 User Interface provides CICSplex reporting for service level and transaction analysis.
New and migrated features allow users of OMEGAMON for CICS (3270) to migrate to the XE architecture without losing significant function. In addition, users of OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS can maintain access to the OMEGAMON II for CICS (CUA®) interface monitoring product.
OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS has the capability to monitor CICS Transaction Gateway for z/OS. Support is provided for CICS Transaction Gateway in the form of a monitoring component of the base OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS product.
Used in conjunction with other OMEGAMON XE monitoring products, the data, analyses, and alerts presented by OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS help you develop a holistic view of your entire computing enterprise from a single console.
The online help for the OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS product is divided into these main topics:
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