What's new in IBM Z Monitoring Suite 2.1.x

December 2023

The following topics describe the latest updates to the IBM Z Monitoring Suite component products:

IBM® Z OMEGAMON® AI for z/OS® 6.1

IBM® Z OMEGAMON® AI for z/OS® lets you monitor and manage workload performance and resource utilization of entire sysplexes, as well as the individual z/OS® systems that participate in them.

IBM® Z OMEGAMON® AI for Networks® 6.1

IBM® Z OMEGAMON® AI for Networks® helps you to proactively monitor and manage the network performance of z/OS® system resources and mission-critical applications. It senses poor or unstable network connections that hamper application performance and helps to pinpoint root causes to ensure high availability of services and improve user productivity.

IBM® Z OMEGAMON® Integration Monitor 5.6

IBM® Z OMEGAMON® Integration Monitor displays performance information from a variety of sources, including OMEGAMON monitors and third-party software, in a single location. It delivers near real-time and historical information and operating system and key subsystem performance.

IBM® Z OMEGAMON® AI for JVM 6.1

IBM® Z OMEGAMON® AI for JVM helps you monitor the health of your vital Java™ virtual machines (JVMs) that run on z/OS® systems.

IBM® Z OMEGAMON® for CICS® 5.6

IBM® Z OMEGAMON® for CICS® is a remote monitoring agent that helps you anticipate 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.

IBM® OMEGAMON® for Storage on z/OS 5.5

IBM® OMEGAMON® for Storage on z/OS is a comprehensive monitor for z/OS I/O subsystem performance and storage availability, combining comprehensive storage performance monitoring with a flexible, easy-to-use browser interface that helps you clearly understand storage conditions and ensure optimal performance.

IBM® OMEGAMON® for IMS on z/OS 5.5

IBM® OMEGAMON® for IMS on z/OS helps optimize the performance and availability of your vital IMS systems. From a single point of control, you can view comprehensive information and complete analysis across multiple IMS subsystems, or across your IMSplex environment.

IBM® OMEGAMON® for Messaging on z/OS 7.5

The IBM® MQ Monitoring agent, lets you collect and analyze data that is specific to IBM MQ for all your remote and local queue managers from a single vantage point. You can then track trends in the data that is collected and troubleshoot system problems using the product provided workspaces. The IBM® Integration Bus Monitoring agent is a monitoring and management tool that provides you with the means to verify, analyze, and tune broker topologies associated with IBM Integration Bus or IBM App Connect Enterprise on zCX.

IBM® OMEGAMON® for Db2® Performance Expert on z/OS 5.5

OMEGAMON for DB2® Performance Expert 5.5.0 enables you to measure the efficiency of Db2 and optimize its performance. OMEGAMON for Db2 Performance Expert combines sophisticated response time tracking, reporting, monitoring and buffer pool analysis features with expert database analysis functions.

IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Application Diagnostics on z/OS 7.1.x

IBM® Tivoli® Composite Application Manager (ITCAM) for Application Diagnostics enables IT operations and administrators to assure the availability and performance of critical business applications and services by comprehensively monitoring the health and performance of the underlying server resources. ITCAM for Application Diagnostics proactively alerts administrators of health and performance problems, provides real-time metrics for problem diagnosis, and collects historical metrics for reporting and capacity trending.

IBM Service Management Unite 1.11

IBM® Service Management Unite is a customizable service management user interface that provides dashboards to monitor and operate z/OS environments.

IBM Resource Measurement Facility

IBM Resource Measurement Facility (RMF) collects system-wide data that describes the processor activity (WAIT time), I/O activity (channel and device usage), main storage activity (demand and swap paging statistics), and system resources manager (SRM) activity (workload). RMF is a centralized measurement tool that monitors system activity to collect performance and capacity planning data.

IBM Discovery Library Adapter for z/OS 3.2

The excellent IBM® Discovery Library Adapter for z/OS® detects and discovers active z/OS resources and their connections and relationships. The Discovery Library Adapter for z/OS creates XML files (also referred to as “Books”) that can be used to understand the environment or can be processed by products such as IBM Tivoli® Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM), IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager (TBSM), and IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database (CCMDB), and IBM Z Resources Discovery Data Service (ZRD-DS).

IBM Z Resource Discovery Data Service 1.3.1

IBM Z® Resource Discovery Data Service helps to manages resource data, formats and provides the data via APIs for a more modern solution to retrieve z/OS® data, and store data that is discovered.

IBM Z Common Data Provider 5.1.1 with Kafka

The IBM Z® Common Data Provider provides the infrastructure for accessing IT operational data from z/OS® systems and streaming it to the analytics platform in a consumable format. It is a single data provider for sources of both structured and unstructured data, and it can provide a near real-time data feed of z/OS operational data, such as System Management Facilities (SMF) data, OMEGAMON® data, and z/OS log data to your analytics platform.