What's new

June 2024 (Fix Pack 3) APAR OA66292, PTF UJ95575

Dynamic Proxy Assignment

After installing IBM® Z OMEGAMON® AI for z/OS® 6.1.0, APAR OA66292, the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server (TEMS) plexwatcher dynamically assigns the enterprise-wide proxy to the highest version registered in the hub. Prior to this APAR, after a TEMS was selected as the sysplex and enterprise-wide proxy, that TEMS remained so until stopped.

You can use Configuration Manager or PARMGEN to configure Dynamic Proxy Assignment. For requirements and configuration instructions, see Configuring Dynamic Proxy Assignment.

New attribute group

A new attribute group SMF In-Memory Resources (KM5SMFIM) is added to provide details about SMF in-memory resources.

Updated attribute groups

Two RMF-based attribute groups showing CPU consumption as a percentage have been updated to also include time usage metrics in milliseconds.

Address Space CPU Utilization History attributes (M5ASCPUTLH) provide basic address space identifying information and CPU usage information for all address spaces over the specified near-term history time periods, as well as historical enclave data.
Address Space CPU Summary History attributes (M5ASCPUTSH) provide basic address space identifying information and CPU usage information for all address spaces.

The workspaces using these attribute groups are as follows.

Workspace	Attribute Group
Interval CPU Utilization By Address Space	Address Space CPU Utilization History
Historical Details for An Address Space	Address Space CPU Utilization History
Address Spaces in LPAR - CPU	Address Space CPU Utilization History
Historical Details For A Service Class Period	Address Space CPU Utilization History
Historical Address Spaces in an LPAR	Address Space CPU Summary History
Historical Details For An Address Spaces	Address Space CPU Summary History

March 2024 (Fix Pack 2) APAR OA65892, PTF UJ94887

New reporting attribute groups added

SMF Exits Installed (KM5SMFEXIT). A new attribute group to view the SMF exits installed.
SMF Record Types (KM5SMFRECT). A new attribute group to view the SMF record types.
SMF DSN Info (KM5SMFDSN). A new attribute group to view information about SMF data sets.
SMF Global Data (KM5SMGLB). A new attribute group to view SMF global data.

Addition of new attributes in attribute group Address Space Bottleneck (ASGNWAIT):

Total CPU Samples. The total CPU samples is the number of samples where the address space was using CPU plus the number of samples where the address space was waiting for CPU.
Total Wait Samples. The total wait samples is the number of samples where the address space is waiting for CPU.
CPU Loop Index Importance. The Loop Index Importance is the total samples where the address space is waiting for CPU times 10000 divided by the number of samples where the address space is either using CPU or waiting for CPU; i.e., the percent of wait samples compared to the total number of samples. A value of 0 indicates that there were no samples where the address space was waiting for CPU. A value of -1, n/a, indicates that there were no samples collected when the address space was either using CPU or waiting for CPU.

A new Dedicated Memory table view in workspaces

Storage Usage by all Address Spaces. Address Space Dedicated Memory table view provides information about dedicated memory requests and usage for each address space.
Address Space Storage for Job. Address Space Dedicated Memory table view provides information about dedicated memory requests and usage for a given address space.
Address Space Details for Job. Address Space Dedicated Memory table shows dedicated memory usage by the address space.
Real Storage. Dedicated Memory Summary table view provides a summary of dedicated memory usage and requests on your z/OS system.

December 2023 (Fix Pack 1) APAR OA65527, PTF UJ94186

New tabular view in the enhanced 3270 User Interface for viewing system system-specific z/OS metrics sorted by tabs

A new workspace, KM5STRTK, has been provided to enable tabular views in the enhanced 3270 User Interface (e3270UI). With related metrics grouped in tabs, the tabular view provides a simple way to see related metrics without requiring knowledge of the navigation to get there. For more information, see Enabling tabular view in the Enhanced 3270 User Interface using the KM5STRTK workspace.

Bookmark support in the enhanced 3270 User Interface

The main workspaces in the e3270UI can now be bookmarked for quick and easy access. Use the BOOKMARK, BOOK, or ADDALIAS commands when viewing a main workspace to add a bookmark (alias) to it. When saved, these bookmarks are reusable from any OMEGAMON product in the e3270UI. For more information, see the What's new in the e3270UI online help.

New reporting attributes

SMF Log Stream Reporting: A new attribute group, SMF Log Streams attributes (SMFLGSTR), provides SMF log streams data per LPAR.
Enhanced CPU Loop Index reporting: Three new Address Space Bottleneck attributes (ASGNWAIT) have been added to provide more information on address space-level wait state (bottlenecks): Total CPU Samples, Total Wait Samples, and CPU Loop Index Importance.
Address Space Owner and Wait Time reporting: Three new Address Space CPU Utilization attributes (ASCPUUTIL) have been added to provide more information on address space identifying information and CPU usage information for all address spaces: Owner, Wait Time Seconds, and Wait Time (ddd:hh:mm:SS).

Version 6.1.0, September 2023

Support for IBM® Z OMEGAMON® Data Provider

IBM® Z OMEGAMON® AI for z/OS® works with IBM® Z OMEGAMON® Data Provider to make OMEGAMON data available to applications and analytics platforms outside of OMEGAMON itself, including IBM® Instana Observability on z/OS (Instana), the Elastic Stack, and Splunk.

Support for IBM® Z OMEGAMON® AI Insights

IBM® Z OMEGAMON® AI for z/OS® integrates with IBM® Z OMEGAMON® AI Insights, a diagnostic tool that helps identify and forecast the operating system performance of z/OS system resources and applications. IBM® Z OMEGAMON® AI Insights uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze the behavior of your z/OS applications and components. It thus enhances the monitoring and the managing of workload performance and resource utilization of the Parallel Sysplex in which they participate. The tool identifies and analyzes performance issues, such as excess MSU consumption and drills down into the root causes contributing to anomalies. Historical data is used to build and update forecast models. Once trained, IBM® Z OMEGAMON® AI Insights becomes proficient at identifying typical patterns. These discerned patterns are then presented through dashboards on Elastic Kibana. You can easily detect abnormal behavior and promptly troubleshoot by drilling down for more detail.

Enhancements to the e3270UI Alias command

These include: More Alias commands, the ability to select the Alias commands, and annotation that describes the Alias commands.

Virtual Machine (VM) identification

Identification of whether system is running under a VM and type of VM in e3270UI LPARS Online workspaces.

Support for z/OS 3.1

IBM® Z OMEGAMON® AI for z/OS® contains several enhancements to support z/OS 3.1:

Updates to attribute groups Real Storage and Address Space Real Storage to report dedicated real memory.
New and updated e3270UI workspaces to report dedicated real memory at both the LPAR and address space level.

Troubleshooting topic added: IBM® Z OMEGAMON® AI for z/OS® agent MVSSYS does not start in TEMS

The IBM® Z OMEGAMON® AI for z/OS® Troubleshooting Guide has a topic explaining that after you run IBM® Z OMEGAMON® Monitoring Configuration Manager®, you must run a GENERATE step; if this is not done, the agent will not restart. For details on this issue and how to resolve it, see IBM® Z OMEGAMON® AI for z/OS® agent MVSSYS does not start in TEMS.