My esteemed colleague, Wayne Bucek of IBM, has posted an excellent video on Youtube about APM and the mainframe. Link to video ..read more

At its most basic, Application Performance Management (APM) is the monitoring and management of the performance and availability of applications.  APM is about the correlation of monitoring and management and translating that process into something that has relevance to the business application. Essential aspects of any APM solution include what termed end-user experience monitoring (i.e. response time), end to end transaction tracking (preferably dynamic tracking), transaction profiling, baseline analysis, and reporting.  IBM has an APM offering (called, guess what, IBM APM).  ..read more

 FYI.  I will be presenting on z/OS and APM at the DFW zCouncil meeting on Nov 19th.  Here's the agenda below.  It's not too late to register! Here's a link to register: Register Agenda (Central Time)  9:00 am – 10:00 am: New Trend in Storage and Cloud Storage with Louis Hanna 10:00 am – 10:10 am: Break 10:10 am – 10:40 am: Date & Topics with Sharon Dodd & DFW z User Group Team 10:40 am – 11:40 am: How z/OS Fits into Your Application Performance Management (APM) Strategy with Ed Woods 11:40 am: Closing ..read more

On Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020, from 9:30 am - 2:00 pm ET there will be a Virtual Edition of the IBM Z Customer Council, hosted by the Southeast Z Council Planning Committee. In this session, you will be able to hear about the latest developments in IBM Z Hardware, Security and Management. Here's the agenda: 9:15 AM    Kickoff & Opening Remarks 9:30 AM    Technical Overview of the New IBM z15 T02 and LinuxONE III LT2 Monte Bauman, IBM Z Champion 11:00 AM    Break 11:30 AM    IBM Data Privacy Passports Michael Jordan, IBM Z Distingu ..read more

IBM Z Service Management Explorer (IZSME) is a web-based replacement for the Tivoli Enterprise Portal (TEP). The IZSME interface is a Zowe desktop plug-in, so if you recall my prior post about Zowe, this shows the potential importance of Zowe as the backbone infrastructure for IBM mainframe monitoring and management moving forward. IZSME requires Zowe 1.10 or higher and supports Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.Here's a link for more information on IZSME  More about IZSME Here's a quick screen shot of what IZSME looks like relative to the TEP ..read more

Have you heard about Zowe?  Wondering what it is, what it does, or why you would even want it? These are all fair questions, and I guess part of the answer is it's all still evolving.  That's the funny thing about new and emerging technology: it's new and it's emerging. So the first question is, What is Zowe?  This is straight from the Zowe.org web site: "Zowe is an open source project created to host technologies that benefit the Z platform from all members of the Z community (Integrated Software Vendors, System Integrators and z/OS consumers). Zowe, like Mac OS or Windows, c ..read more

Here's some information on an upcoming IBM Z security seminar on April 29th at 10 AM Eastern US. Webinar: Security in a Remote Work World Secure Authentication &Compliance With the mainframe as the backbone of the borderless digital economy, enabling security of IBM Z has never been more crucial. With today’s number of remote workers, this need is exacerbated. To extend the inherent security, scale and performance of your mainframe, IBM offers a way to help you authenticate everyone accessing mainframe resources even from remote work locations. Today’s work from home environment means y ..read more

With the many challenges of our current business and travel realities, the good news is we will be seeing many very informative virtual events.  Through the miracles of technologies such as Webex and Zoom we can still very effectively interact and work together. One of the things I plan to do is post information on interesting upcoming Z oriented virtual events.  So if IBM Z is your area of interest, stay tuned to this space ..read more

I have mentioned earlier that Omegmon Enhanced 3270 UI has alert dashboard support included in the UI.  This is nice and offers the user  the capability of seeing situation alerts in the 3270 interface. For users that have been using Omegaview CUA screens, this is an important capability.  All the more so because with V550 the CUA interface has been removed from the products. There are some important considerations when setting up DE in Enhanced 3270 as a replacement to Omegaview.  There are subtleties to controlling such things as the color of the alert in DE versus in t ..read more

I mentioned in a prior post the new version of the IBM Service Management Suite (V1.5) that includes several new V5.50 versions of OMEGAMON (z/OS, CICS, IMS, Networks, Storage, Dashboard Edition). If you want more information on the new suite here's a link: IBM Service Management Suite announcement ..read more