What's new in Unified Management Server

The Unified Management Server has been updated to include new features, enhancements, and fixes.

Table 1. Unified Management Server 1.1 UMS1.1.0.15 (UI83149) new and changed functions
Feature Description APAR
IMS Administration Foundation: Registering IMS subsystems Removed the restriction that an IMS data sharing group that is composed of IMS subsystems of mixed ACB management types cannot be registered. For details, see Software requirements for IMS Administration Foundation. PH50628
Logging enhancement Improved error messaging.
Table 2. Unified Management Server 1.1 UMS1.1.0.14 (UI82463) new and changed functions
Feature Description APAR
IMS Administration Foundation: Explore objects You can now save and load your search criteria. You can also update an existing search criteria. PH49392
Table 3. Unified Management Server 1.1 UMS1.1.0.13 (UI81668) new and changed functions
Feature Description APAR
Logging enhancements Improved authentication error reporting. PH47708
Improved error reporting for ZSS access.
IMS Administration Foundation IMS Administration Foundation support is added with UMS1.1.0.13 (UI81668). For more information, see Using IMS Administration Foundation
Table 4. Unified Management Server 1.1 UMS1.1.0.12 (UI81166) new and changed functions
Feature Description APAR
Subsystem management Objects are not created in the mainframe when the pull request is in an open state.

The renaming of the database and schema are restricted to the name unknown to the instance and adding the support for the Sequence Alias (SA type) in DevOps application/instance/pull request management.

 PH46970
Job prefix value from the configuration files in PARMLIB will be displayed during subsystem registration and unregistration.
Table 5. Unified Management Server 1.1 UMS1.1.0.11 (UI80463) new and changed functions
Feature Description APAR
Security enhancements UMS now supports reading server certificates from a key ring. PH45026
Added security parameters for key store and trust store configuration.
Zowe enhancements Updated the minimum required Zowe version for UMS to version 1.25.0.
Miscellaneous Upgraded the embedded IBM Data Server JDBC Driver to version 4.31.10 (V11.5 M7 FP0).
Upgraded the Db2 Administration Tool and Object Comparison tool table library to version 13.1.
The Db2 Command Processor and SQL Processor now select the target subsystem from the command history.
Table 6. Unified Management Server 1.1 UMS1.1.0.10 (UI79783) new and changed functions
Feature Description APAR
Security enhancement The Unified Management Server 1.1 now performs SAF checks for only the required user in the USERLIST. PH44497
Improved logging of authentication method when switching to or from multifactor authentication.
Updated commands for setting up the security token, For more information, see Setting up security token.
Logging enhancement Corrected a warning message addressed for the use of log4j facility.
Improved messaging in the IZPINST output.
Miscellaneous The find command, used with IZP scripts, now follows a symbolic link.
During subsystem registration, enhancements are incorporated to retain user-specified job card keyword parameters for TIME, NOTIFY, USER, MSGCLASS, and REGION. Additionally, support is added for the SCHENV keyword parameter.
Subsystem registration now supports the '/' character in the job name.
SQL processor now shows the correct SQL return code.
Repaired potential upgrade issue caused by an incorrect PARMLIB definition file.
Table 7. Unified Management Server 1.1 UMS1.1.0.9 (UI79274) new and changed functions
Feature Description APAR
Security improvement The IBM Unified Management Server for z/OS 1.1 is now using log4j-core 2.17 compliant stack. PH43363
Table 8. Unified Management Server 1.1 PTF 8 (UI78605) new and changed functions
Feature Description APAR
Installation improvements The installer verifies the existence of a dataset before concatenating it. PH42480
During installation, correct error message ID is now logged instead of IZPPI0065I.
Multifactor authentication UMS now supports multifactor authentication by leveraging IBM Z Multi-Factor Authentication.
Logging enhancement Improved error messaging.
Security improvement Self generated server certificate required for client authentication must now contain the TLS Web Client Authentication value in the extended usage section.
Miscellaneous DSG now supports generic LUNAME.
Table 9. Unified Management Server 1.1 PTF 7 (UI77744, UI77745) new and changed functions
Feature Description APAR
Installation improvements The STEPLIB variable is removed from the Zowe instance.env file. PH04891
You need to specify values for the ZIS_PARMLIB and the ZIS_LOADLIB parameters during installation.
The IZP_UMS_OBJECT_DISCOVERY_INTERVAL UMS server parameter is added.
All LPAR names are now capitalized before being used in the install scripts.
Zowe 1.24.0 is compatible with the PTF7 (UI77744, UI77745) release.
The izp-update-zowe.sh now handles trailing spaces correctly.
OpenSSL is now included with the UMS installation.
Logging enhancement Improved SYSLOG error messaging.
GUI enhancements The subsystem page now lists the successfully registered DSG subsystem.
Updated menu items to support SQL Tuning Services.
Security improvement SSL certificate validation errors of the ZSS server are not ignored.
You now need to import certificates in UMS truststore for ZSS services, z/OSMF services, and SQL Tuning Services.
Miscellaneous Updated description for the IZPDB0039E Db2 message.
SQL queries with an extra white space at the end now return only one result set.
Db2 subsystem registration now saves the correct LPAR name.
Table 10. Unified Management Server 1.1 PTF 6 (UI76539) new and changed functions
Feature Description APAR
Installation improvements You can now run izp-gen-cacerts.sh to import root CA used for Zowe certificates. PH39053
Improved error messages to indicate unavailability of the Zowe Auxiliary Address Space service.
You can supply PARMLIB(IZPUMSPM) during initial install.
The new POSITNO default value is 608 for RACF.