SAP Basis Tech Supports

Symptom

More RMF Monitor III data from z/OS is needed than is available in transaction OS07 for performance monitoring of z/OS .The data should be accessible from the SAP system
Other terms

saposcol ST06

Solution

RMF offers a Data Portal which is a graphical frontend to RMF Monitor III data. This Portal can be accessed by an Internet Browser or directly from the SAP system
1. Setup
The Data Portal requires the RMF Distributed Data Server DDS.
The configuration is described in the z/OS RMF User’s Guide
“Setting up the Distributed Data Server”
2. Access the RMF Monitor III Data Portal from an Internet browser:
http://:8803
is the host where the DDS is running, 8803 is the default
port (can be changed during setup)
3. Access the RMF Monitor III Data Portal from SAP:
With 7.00 Basis Support Package 11 or 6.40 CCMS transport SAPK640OCN
the RMF Data Portal can be accessed from transaction DB2 -
“z/OS RMF Monitor”
For SAP Release 6.40 < SAPK640OCN and 7.00 < SP11
Start the ABAP BSP_PAGE_BROWSER and specify the URL for the Data
Portal in the first input field.
For SAP Release 4.6C
Start the ABAP SAPHTML_DEMO1 and specify the URL for the Data Portal

Further documentation of the RMF Monitor III Data Portal is available at:
http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/rmf/rmfhtmls/rmfpres.html
SAP requires that the parameter
HTTP_NOAUTH
in SYS1.PARMLIB member GPMSRVxx is either set to
HTTP_NOAUTH(*)
or to the TCP/IP addresses of the application servers that should use
this interface.