This release contains the component updates described below.
This topic contains the new functions and features of the following items:
- IBM Discovery Library Adapter for z/OS 3.2
- IBM Discovery Library Adapter for z/OS 3.2 delivers UJ93701 in October
2023, which contains the following new feature:
You can use z/OS DLA to discover MQ Queue Sharing
Group information and put the information to the IdML book for individual MQ subsystem.
- For more information, see What’s New.
- IBM Service Management
Unite 1.1.11
- IBM Service Management
Unite 1.1.11 delivers the following
major changes:
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- Enhanced integration with IBM Z System Automation
- Starting in 1.1.11, you can view your System Automation policy reports and refresh System
Automation policies through IBM Service Management Unite. To do that, you must configure a list of
policy databases first.
- Support for viewing System Automation policy database reports
A new Manage Z System
Automation Policies dashboard allows you to choose the policy database and member / file name to
view the detailed report. On the View SA Policy dashboard, you see all the groups, systems,
applications, and application groups that are defined so far in the policy database. You can search
and expand entries to drill down into details in the report.
- Support for refreshing System Automation policies
You can refresh a System Automation
policy with the Refresh Policy Configuration operation through Service Management
Unite.
- Miscellaneous enhancements
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- You can now select which TEPS is used to query data with custom dashboards.
- Updated the major prerequisite software of SMU container images: JazzSM to fix pack 20, and WAS
to fix pack 24.
- Added support for IPv6.
- Added support for deleting SDF Captured Messages that are created by AOCUPDT command.
- Improved the SMU WTOR message behavior.
- For more information, see New in IBM Service Management Unite 1.1.11 (December 2023).
- IBM Z ChatOps
1.1.4
- IBM Z ChatOps
1.1.4 delivers the following major
changes:
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- New Kafka event support
- You can post any topic of any Apache Kafka (https://kafka.apache.org/) event to chat tool channels to notify that some incidents happen and need to be
taken care of in a uniform format and looking. You can also add your own filtering rules and mapping
rules to customize what kind of inbound Kafka topics are posted to channels automatically.
- New embedded chat window
- You can embed the new platform and framework agnostic chat window into any web application by
adding the <chat-window> element to enable chatops capability for your web application along with
customizable conversational page driven capability, that is, your host page can be automatically
switched and synchronized per your chatting topic with the chat bot. All Z ChatOps capabilities are
available in the embedded chat windows with enhanced workflow for operation authentication workflow.
Besides, auto-registering, style theme (dark and light) and chatting message persistence are also
provided together.
- Miscellaneous enhancements
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- Security enhancement
Z ChatOps data encryption is enhanced with more secure hash
algorithm. You can also now run Z ChatOps container with more security options such as
AllowPrivilegeEscalation, readOnlyRootFilesyste, and Apparmor/SeLinux.
- Start-up process enhancement
Z ChatOps start-up process is enhanced with clearer steps
and more application level event and exception.
- For more information, see What's new in 1.1.4 (December
2023).
- IBM Z Resource Discovery Data
Service 1.3.1
- IBM Z Resource Discovery Data
Service 1.3.1 delivers improved security, support
for PostgreSQL connect for Apache Kafka containers, ServiceNow Configuration Item data modeling
through the NowCertified IBM Z Discovery app in the ServiceNow Store, and JCL Discovery which
includes JCL Discovery Plugin for persisting and analyzing JCL scan data and JCL Discovery Scanner
Standalone Package for scanning JCL file on Mainframe or Linux.
- For more information, see What’s New.