On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:41:54 -0800, John Mattson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am having a fascinating adventure going to zOS 1.8 courtesy of >IBM/Tivoli/Candle/Omegamon. I received and applied the products along >with my Serverpac. Then I go to install what Tivoli calls V4.1, but is >550 as far as Omegamon II MVS is concerned. I go to look at the manuals >at >http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v15r1/index.jsp? topic=/com.ibm.omegamon_xezos.doc/welcome.htm > > And I discover the following: >Configuration and Customization Guide >OMEGAMON II® for MVS >Version 520 >GC32-9277-00 >December 2001 >... > Is IBM turning into a company which buys up good software and >turns it into junk? I advise you all to plan lots of extra time if you >undertake to do this upgrade. >... If this is the only problem you are having with Omegamon I think you may be lucky. We originally had the TMon suite of products, switched to Omegamon, stuggled for a years or so, and finally switched to CA's SystemView. Our heaviest users of TMon had been our CICS and DB2 folks. They never were able to get the critical data from Omegamon that they were easily able to get from both TMon and SystemView. They were never sure whether this was because Omegamon simply was not getting the data, or if it was just hidden so deeply they couldn't find it. Either way, Omegamon was not a usable tool for them. After reading this thread and reflecting on my shop's experience, I think IBM / Tivoli is missing something here. Hopefully they are interested in this kind of information. As a past, and intermittantly current, member of SHARE's Tivoli Technical Steering Committee I guess I could mention this to some Tivolites and see if they care. Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
