New in this release
Version 4 release 1 of Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS includes a number of enhancements to
its Tivoli Enterprise Portal features.
New CICS SLA view helps you ensure SLA compliance
A new Tivoli Enterprise Portal alternative view, the CICS SLA view, has been added with this
release. Using it you can define workload-performance thresholds with which
you can monitor your CICS transactions to ensure they comply with your site's
service-level agreements (SLAs). You define such thresholds using three new
CICS-specific portal objects: service policies, workloads, and service classes.
The CICS SLA view lets you create these objects and activate them so your
site can monitor its SLA compliance using the Service Level Analysis workspace.
This new feature incorporates all the function previously provided by the Candle® Management Workstation's Workload Definitions icon. For detailed information,
including implementation steps, see Alternative view CICS SLA.
Dynamic workspace links support transfers into other OMEGAMON products
Dynamic, runtime workspace links have been added to these CICS workspaces
to allow you to transfer to these products' workspaces for additional analysis
of CICS monitoring data:
- From the Temporary Storage Queues workspace to the Coupling Facility Structures
Data for Sysplex workspace provided by the Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for z/OS product
- From the Log Stream Analysis workspace to the Coupling Facility Structures
Data for Sysplex workspace provided by the Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for z/OS product for the analysis
of critical CICS log records
- From the Transaction Analysis workspace to the Detailed Thread Exception
workspace provided by the Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2 on z/OS product for the selected DB2 Correlation
identifier, which allows you to track a transaction's activity as it moves
between CICS and DB2
- From the Transaction Analysis workspace to the new Single DB2 Thread
Summary workspace provided by the Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2 on z/OS product, filtered by the DB2 Correlation
identifier, which allows you to retrieve detail data about the running transaction
- From the DB2 Summary workspace to the CICS Connections workspace
provided by the Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2 on z/OS product, with which you can see at a glance all CICS/DB2
thread activity in the CICS region, filtered by the CICS ID
- From the Transaction Analysis workspace to the new DBCTL Detailed Thread
Activity (Active) workspace provided by the Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for IMS on z/OS product for the selected
CICS Jobname and CICS Task Number, which allows you to track a transaction's
activity as it moves between CICS and IMS
- From the DBCTL Summary workspace to the IMS Address Spaces workspace
provided by the Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for IMS on z/OS product for the selected CICS region, with which you
can see at a glance all CICS/DBCTL activity
- From the TCPIP Statistics workspace to the Application TCP Listeners
workspace provided by the Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for Mainframe Networks product to investigate the TCP/IP stack,
filtered by the CICS Application Name
- From the Message Queuing Analysis workspace to the Trans/PGM Statistics by
Applid workspace provided by the Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for Messaging product's WebSphere MQ monitoring agent,
with which you can obtain detailed information about the CICS usage of a queue
manager, filtered by the CICS Appl Type and Appl ID columns
All these links function only if the target product is both installed and
running when you invoke the link. In addition, if there are no matching filtering
criteria, the link icon either does not show or shows grayed out.
Note:
Dynamic links from a Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS V4.1 workspace to an OMEGAMON XE V3.1 product
function as long as the target workspace exists, although you may notice some
behavioral changes. For example, the 3.1 version of the Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2 on z/OS product's
Detailed Thread Exception workspace does not filter the data; hence, if you
link to this workspace from the
Transaction Analysis workspace, all threads
are displayed. If the target workspace does not exist in the V3.1 product,
you will receive error KFWITM081E.
New Web Services Analysis workspaces analyze WWW intercommunication
With the new Web Services Analysis workspace, you can determine the
status of the various aspects of Web-based program-to-program interactions
with your CICS regions. Should your site experience problems connecting its
CICS applications to business functions using the Worldwide Web, this workspace
helps you ensure that all necessary Web services are defined and available.
This workspace comprises four reports:
In addition, these workspaces can be reached via the Document Template Details report to
help you investigate the CICS resources associated with your Web services'
document templates:
Enhanced Exit Program Analysis workspace provides additional user exit
information
The Exit Program Analysis workspace has been enhanced to provide additional
information about CICS Global User Exits (GLUEs) and Task-Related User Exits
(TRUEs) running in your environment. Two new subsidiary workspaces have been
added to retrieve this detailed information:
To support this new workspace, two new attribute groups have been added:
Split workspaces enhance TEP performance
To reduce the amount of data shipped to the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server, workspaces have been
split into summary and details versions: you initially retrieve a summary
report of the resources and then drill down into a details workspace of a
selected resource as required. The affected views are:
- Corbaserver Summary report
- Has been added, along with a Corbaserver Details workspace.
- Document Template Summary report
- Has been added, along with a Document Template Details workspace.
- Pipeline Summary report
- Has been added, along with a Pipeline Details workspace.
- Request Model Summary report
- Has been added, along with a Request Model Details workspace.
- URIMAP Summary report
- Has been added, along with a URIMAP Details workspace.
- Web Services Summary report
- Has been added, along with a Web Services Details workspace.
Transient Data Queues workspace enhanced
The Transient Data Queues workspace in Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS was designed to implement
CICS exceptions as situations. As such the data displayed is limited to that
required by these exceptions. To make the Transient Data Queues report more
useful, a subset of the fields provided by the CUA interface within Tivoli OMEGAMON II for CICS has
been added.
In addition, three new Take Action commands for the deletion of transient
data now allow situations to purge entries from a transient data or temporary
storage queue; these are:
Note:
The following Take Action command was added to allow you or
a situation to pass a WTO message, in mixed case and with Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS attribute
values substituted, to the system operator:
Sample WTO message issued by a command or situation.
Security enhanced for Take Action commands
Security for the native OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS Take Action commands (those prefixed by CP:)
is now determined by a special set of security profiles. This includes all
commands that the Tivoli Enterprise Portal passes directly to CICS TS for execution: AIDK, ICEK,
SET, TDDL, TSQD, and WTO.
Note:
Security for z/OS console commands (for example, CEMT and
CEKL commands passed to CICS TS via the Modify command) is still controlled
by the general Take Action security your site set up via Netview.
However,
Support for the aggregation and pruning enhancements in TDW
The Tivoli Data Warehouse (TDW), the piece of the ™ framework where Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS stores
monitoring data for historical analysis, has been enhanced to support new
data aggregation and pruning capabilities. With these new features, historical
data can be summarized and rolled up into aggregate values while removing
detail data that is no longer needed. These Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS attribute groups—for
which historical data can be stored and retrieved—have been enhanced
to exploit these new capabilities:
Note:
This enhancement may change the look and feel of the historical
data within Tivoli Enterprise Portal.