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Page title

For most spaces, this page must be titled Space announcements.

For spaces with localized content, this page must be titled Space announcements l10n.

Purpose

Provide an announcement banner on every page of your space.

Location

Move this page outside of your home branch.

Guidelines

Limited supportBMC provides limited support for this version of the product. As a result, BMC no longer accepts comments in this space. If you encounter problems with the product version or the space, contact BMC Support.BMC recommends upgrading to the latest version of the product. To see documentation for that version, see BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS Online 5.6.

Monitor OTMA clients and servers

Use the Open Transaction Manager Access (OTMA) views to examine the topology and status of IMS OTMA clients and servers and the transactions they are running.

OTMA clients and servers monitoring overview

You can use the OTMA views to quickly answer the following questions:

  • Which clients (WebSphere MQ, TCP/IP, and so on) are associated with which server?
  • Which clients are ready to send and receive transaction messages?
  • Which transactions are the IMS servers currently processing?
  • Which resources are being used?

The OTMA summary and detail views provide a system-wide overview. The views provide status and details about IMS OTMA clients, servers, transactions, and resources, as well as information about

  • Connection status
  • XCF status
  • Conversations
  • Number of tpipes
  • Number of messages enqueued
  • Tpipe transaction
  • Transaction origin

Note

Relevant OTMA-related information (such as tpipe name) is also displayed in other views of the MainView for IMS product, such as the regions and trace views. You may want to use the information collected in those views as part of your analysis.

The following OTMA views are provided:

Tip

To access online Help for a view, position the cursor on the view name (in the window information line) and press the Help key. To access help for a field, position the cursor on the field and press the Help key.




 

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