YES!! I'm not sure when, but at some point Omegamon stopped being part of the solution and became "THE PROBLEM".
Upgrades, be it z/OS or CICS, now split my time 50-50. 50% for the upgrade, 50% for the associated Omegamon changes. Dennis Barrett Systems Programmer Laclede Gas Co. 720 Olive Street, room 1103 St. Louis, Mo. 63101 (314) 342-0695 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Joel C. Ewing [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 00:25 Subject: Re: IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM for short) I remember with wistful nostalgia Omegamon MVS back in the days when it was a manageable-sized product, before it became so complex that it required 7 x 70 VSAM datasets, umpteen dozen address spaces, and a whole platoon of server platforms to run. It's as if someone out there thinks System Programmer time and server platforms are free, or that our end goal is to configure and run this complex structure rather than just use it an incidental tool to measure a system that is doing real work. The level of complexity of these products has gotten to the point that I almost prefer installing a new release of z/OS to updating Omegamon products. ... ... JC Ewing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
