(Apologies to the newsgroup readers who will see this twice. I originally posted it via the news interface, and then remembered that meant the email list readers wouldn't see it. So here it is again).
We're looking for a tool to help monitor our SAP environment (which is mostly running on AIX/pseries, so it may not meet some definitions of "mainframe"). In the dark ages, we used Omegamon for MVS, and were very impressed by it. So naturally, our first thought was "There's a version of Omegamon for everything else, there must be one for SAP"). So we did some searching, and sure enough, we were right. We were a little leery of the fact that Candle now belongs to IBM/Tivoli, because our experience with Tivoli products basically sucks. But we thought maybe they hadn't owned Candle long enough to ruin it. But it turns out that IBM marketing folks don't want to talk to us about Omegamon for SAP. Every time we ask about it, they change the subject to something called Tivoli Composite Application Manager. (I guess they figured it's safe to recycle the TCAM acronym, since anybody looking at Tivoli products is probably too young to remember the first TCAM). In our efforts to buy something they don't want to sell, we looked at their documentation website. All the Omegamon doc seems to be old. Specifically, the users manual for Omegamon for SAP R/3 was dated 2002. There was a release notes manual dated 2005, but it was for the same release (Version 300). Does anybody know where IBM/Tivoli is going with the Omegamon product line, and specifically Omegamon for SAP? Are they continuing to develop and market it? Or are they adopting the CA strategy of buying all the products that compete with theirs and burying them? -- Matt Simpson - University of Kentucky <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- (859) 257-2243 630 South Broadway, Lexington, KY 40506 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
