The IBM® OMEGAMON® z/OS® Management Console (zMC) is a free offering from Tivoli® that uses the Tivoli Enterprise Portal (TEP) graphical user interface (GUI) ¹ to provide an easy to use display of z/OS job and process availability information. Information about Coupling Facility connections and structures is also provided. Output from the z/OS Health Checker may also be viewed through the zMC.

The zMC comes pre-configured with a set of tabular and graphical displays (known as workspaces) and with a set of pre-configured situations. Situations are simple rules that can be established to look for conditions within the data being displayed and take some action, such as changing the color of the data which can visually alert operations personnel to various anomalous conditions. The TEP GUI is extremely flexible and may be easily customized to display the information in the manner desired. For example, within tabular displays, columns may be re-ordered left-to-right, and the data within a column may be sorted. Any of the data that is being displayed in a table may be displayed graphically, in a variety of formats. All of the pre-configured situations are easily modified and new situations may be easily created.

The zMC workspaces are designed to be easily integrated with other workspaces in the OMEGAMON XE for z/OS product if it is present.

For more information about the z/OS Management Console, see IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS Management Console User's Guide.