IBM® Tivoli® OMEGAMON® XE for CICS® on z/OS® (OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS) is a remote monitoring agent that runs on z/OS managed systems. It assists you in anticipating performance problems and warns you when critical events take place on your site's CICS environments. With IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS, you can set threshold levels and flags as desired to alert you when events within your CICS regions reach critical points.
When running under the Tivoli Enterprise Portal, IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS offers a central point of management for CICS Transaction Server and provides a comprehensive means for gathering the information you need to detect and prevent problems within your CICS regions. You can view data that Tivoli Enterprise Portal gathers in tables and charts that show you the status of your managed CICS regions.
This data enables you to perform the following tasks:
With OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS, systems administrators can set threshold levels and flags to alert them when system conditions reach these thresholds. These are the advanced monitoring facilities:
For information about the enhancements included in this release of IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS, see New in this release.
The online help for the OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS product is divided into these topics: