New in version 7.5
Product change
Beginning with version 7.5, the product name is changed to IBM®
OMEGAMON® for Messaging on z/OS®. The previous component, WebSphere® MQ Configuration agent is withdrawn from this product. The two monitoring agents
remain under the following new names:
- IBM Integration Bus Monitoring agent (formerly known as WebSphere Message Broker Monitoring agent)
- IBM MQ Monitoring agent (formerly known as WebSphere MQ Monitoring agent)
Note: Both the new and the previous agent names are used in documentation, and they refer to the
same agent.
IBM Integration Bus Monitoring agent enhancements and changes
- Statistics about more resource types are supported for monitoring by the agent. The following workspaces are added to display the newly supported attribute groups.
- Those same statistics are added to the enhanced 3720 user interface, which was newly added to the product in version 7.3 fix pack 2, for the IBM Integration Bus Monitoring agent.
- Agent configuration on z/OS systems is simplified by reducing configuration parameters that are coupled with automatic discovery of system properties during the PARMGEN configuration process.
IBM MQ Monitoring agent enhancements and changes
- The Process Information workspace is added to provided to help you check the definitional information about IBM MQ processes. For details about this workspace and the related attribute group, see Process Information workspace.
- The following attribute groups are updated with new attributes added to provide more performance information about log managers.
- The Current Queue Manager Status workspace is updated with new columns to provide sysplex and LPAR information. For descriptions of the new attributes, see Current Queue Manager Status attributes.
- New columns are added to the following workspaces to provide cluster information about the topic and to indicate whether the dead-letter queue is used for publication.
- The Queue Sharing Group CF Structure Statistics table is updated with new columns to provide more information about the coupling facility application structures, such as Offload Size, Offload Threshold, or Automatic Recovery. For descriptions of the new attributes, see QSG Coupling Facility Structures attributes (z/OS systems only).
- New columns are added to the Real-time Queue Data workspaces to provide more detailed information about queues, such as Process Name, Storage Class, or Tpipe Name. For descriptions of the new attributes, see Queue Data attributes.
- Two columns are added to the Publish Subscribe Status workspace to display the total number of subscriptions and the total number of topics in the local tree. See Publish Subscribe Status attributes.
- One column is added to the following workspaces to display the name of transmission queue.
- The WebSphere MQ Monitoring agent 3270 user interface (MQ 3270 user interface for short) is withdrawn. The MQ 3270 user interface is also known as the Candle Command Center (CCC) for MQSeries®. Now, you can use the enhanced 3270 user interface to get the similar functions.
- The enhanced 3270 user interface has the following enhancements:
- Add support for the IBM MQ publish/subscribe data, including subscription definitions and status, and topic definitions and status.
- Improved support for monitoring IBM MQ across multiple systems, including a sysplex tree view of queue managers, views of MQ data from user-defined managed system lists of queue managers, enterprise-wide views of MQ cluster data and of Queue-Sharing Group data, and views of monitoring agent status.
- Changes for improved usability and completeness, including tabbed queue summary by type, tabbed channel summary by type, clear display of log names and 6/8 byte RBAs, more queue manager detail tabs, options for listing DLQ and queue messages, and improved MQ Event workspaces.
- Agent configuration on z/OS systems is simplified by reducing configuration parameters that are coupled with automatic discovery of system properties during the PARMGEN configuration process.