Well, we have several of the Omegamon products for the z/OS systems. In October of 2005 we started installing the IBM Tivoli Monitor (ITM) products across the enterprise. They have basically rolled the old Candle products in to ITM. We were on version 3 of the Candle products and now IBM has come out with a version 4. So I believe the do plan on supporting them within the ITM framework. It is very likely that the old Candle product for SAP is now a part of the Tivoli Composite Application Manager.
Tom Kelman Commerce Bank of Kansas City (816) 760-7632 > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Simpson, Matt > Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 10:29 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Omegamon for SAP? > > (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 ***************************************************************************** If you wish to communicate securely with Commerce Bank and its affiliates, you must log into your account under Online Services at http://www.commercebank.com or use the Commerce Bank Secure Email Message Center at https://securemail.commercebank.com NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any attached files are confidential. The information is exclusively for the use of the individual or entity intended as the recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, printing, reviewing, retention, disclosure, distribution or forwarding of the message or any attached file is not authorized and is strictly prohibited. If you have received this electronic mail message in error, please advise the sender by reply electronic mail immediately and permanently delete the original transmission, any attachments and any copies of this message from your computer system. ***************************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
