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 1.2 UMS1.2.0.7 (UI96717) new and changed functions
Feature Description APAR
Performance improvement Improved the performance of the application and usability. PH60802
Table 2. Unified Management Server 1.2 UMS1.2.0.6 (UI96248) new and changed functions
Feature Description APAR
Support for Profile Qualifier Unified Management Server (UMS) now supports the ability to select a profileQualifier that is used to support more than one user set for the useSAFOnly security mode.

This profileQualifier will be used to perform all the SAF checks. For more information, refer to Supporting Profile Qualifier.

 PH58894
Supports JCECCARACFKS UMS now supports JCECCARACFKS type, which allows you to store the private keys in ICSF instead of RACF. For more information, refer to
 PH60228
Introducing the SAF Id field

The SAF Id field is now available in the user interface, and the value specified in this field will be used to determine team membership in the SAF profile. For more information, refer to Editing teams and Creating teams.

Db2® Administration Foundation PH60228
Introducing the Db2 Utility history tab You can now view the history of the utility execution for a specific subsystem over a selected time frame. This helps in analyzing and comparing the utility information from one execution to another and taking immediate corrective actions when there is an execution failure. For more information, see
IBM® Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS®
  • Capturing SQL from a user-defined repository enables you to identify and display SQL statements that exist in data sources that you define.
  • Introducing new tabs in the Db2 Administration Foundation user interface makes it easy to display only single-query jobs or only queries that comprise a workload.
Load object data to accelerator server Implemented infrastructure changes to discover IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader Server for z/OS from IBM Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS.

Db2 Administration Foundation user interface changes can load object data to multiple accelerator servers with Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader Server. This data is loaded from a virtual table or virtual view.

The 'data server' is the Accelerator Loader Server that hosts the virtual table or view. The 'target server' is the Accelerator Loader that has access to the target Db2 subsystem and the accelerator. For more information, see
IMS Administration Foundation
Supports DBA user authentication by using a certificate UMS supports the option to specify its DBA user using a trusted certificate that is associated with a DBA user ID. This feature is supported when RACF is used as the security manager and only when IMS Administration Foundation is activated.

The support includes DBA user authentication on the IMS Tools TCP Server. For the feature to work with IMS Tools TCP Server, the PTF UI96259 provided by APAR PH57652 of the IMS Tools Base is required. For more information, see Setting up AT-TLS SAFCheck client authentication for DAI TCP server.
Table 3. Unified Management Server 1.2 UMS1.2.0.5 (UI94998) new and changed functions
Feature Description APAR
ZWEYAML enhancements Added the following members in ZWEYAML: PH57118
Job enhancements The IZPSYNCY sample job is added to assist with synchronizing example IZP yaml and existing ZWEYAML parmlib member. For more information, see Installing a program temporary fix (PTF).
TLS enhancements The Unified Management Server 1.2 now supports TLS 1.3.
IMS Administration Foundation: ODBM Dashboard A new dashboard for each Open Database Manager (ODBM) server and its resources has been added. The IMS Connect dashboard has been enhanced to link it with the new ODBM dashboard.
IMS Administration Foundation: Support delimiter selection in the export function You can select a delimiter from a list when exporting an IMS command processor output or a set of statistics data for a DBD. The dialog to be displayed for the delimiter selection is the same as that for the SQL processor.
Table 4. Unified Management Server 1.2 UMS1.2.0.4 (UI93732) new and changed functions
Feature Description APAR
IMS Administration Foundation: Supports the IMS registration of IBM IMS Administration Tool for z/OS If IBM IMS Administration Tool for z/OS (Program Number: 5655-CAT) is installed and configured with Distributed Access Infrastructure (DAI) and IMS Tools Knowledge Base (IMS Tools KB) of IBM IMS Tools Base for z/OS (Program Number: 5655-V93). IMS registrations for IMS Administration Tool and its associated RECON IDs can be simplified by using IMS Administration Tool data sharing group registration process provided by IMS Administration Foundation.

For details on the configuration requirements, see Installing IMS Administration Foundation. For details on configuration requirements for IMS Administration Tool, see IMS Administration Foundation and IMS Tools.

 PH56865
Customize UMS started task name You can now customize the UMS started task name. For more information, see components.izp.zowe.job.suffix member in ZWEYAML.
Subsystem registration Subsystem registration is improved when the subsystem's SYSNAME and JES2 names are different.
Export SQL query results You can now export the results of SQL queries to a CSV file.
ZWEYAML enhancements Added the components.izp.zowe.job.suffix member in ZWEYAML. For more information see, components.izp.zowe.job.suffix.
Logging enhancement Improved logging for z/OSMF related errors.
Improved logging for the following JCLs:
  • IZPCPYML
  • IZPYAML
  • IZPGENER
  • IZPCPYM2
  • IZPSTEPL
  • IZPALOPL
Error checking is improved for migration scripts.
Table 5. Unified Management Server 1.2 UMS1.2.0.3 new and changed functions
Feature Description APAR
Retry ZSS at configurable interval UMS attempts to retry Zowe System Services (ZSS) at a configurable interval when it fails to run the first time it is called at start up. This only applies to the initial discovery at start up. PH55598
Reduce memory usage Support to prevent application operations from consuming high memory during UMS tasks.
IMS Administration Foundation: Supporting authentication type of MFA_JWT IMS Administration Foundation supports the authentication type (components.izp.server.authType) of MFA_JWT. For configuration requirements, see Installing IMS Administration Foundation, IMS Administration Foundation and IMS Tools, and Configuring multifactor authentication for UMS.
Note: If you are using the IMS command processor feature of IMS Administration Foundation with the authType of MFA_JWT, then certain IMS maintenance is required. For details, see Software requirements for IMS Administration Foundation.
 PH55944
Table 6. Unified Management Server 1.2 UMS1.2.0.2 new and changed functions
Feature Description APAR
SAF-based management of users and teams An alternative security mode that stores the team, user, and role information in IBM® System Authentication Facility (SAF) eliminates the need to maintain the user or team list data set. For details, see Setting up users and teams. PH54452
Support for high availability Unified Management Server offers high availability for Db2 Administration Foundation features through Zowe with an active/passive mode. For details, see Preparation for high availability.
IMS Administration Foundation: Removing the DBDLIB and PSBLIB requirements for visualizing DBDs and PSBs when IMS catalog is used For users of IMS Administration Foundation, the DBDLIB and PSBLIB requirement for DBD and PSB Map feature that enables visualization of IMS database segment structures and segment relationships is removed for IMS data sharing groups that use IMS catalog.
Note:
ZWEYAML enhancements Added the following members in ZWEYAML:
Table 7. Unified Management Server 1.2 UMS1.2.0.1 new and changed functions
Feature Description APAR
IMS Administration Foundation: Support for DBRC-defined groups Added support for DBRC-defined groups in the "explore objects" for IMS and the "data sharing group" page for IMS administration dashboard. Group views for all types of DBRC-defined groups are added. CAGRP exceptions can be displayed in the new CAGRP view. For details of the prerequisite IBM IMS Tools products to report change accumulation exceptions, see IMS Administration Foundation and IMS Tools. PH52916
Logging enhancement Improved error and informational messaging.
ZWEYAML enhancements Added the components.izp.server.host member in ZWEYAML. For more information see, components.izp.server.host.
Table 8. Unified Management Server 1.2 UMS1.2.0.0 new and changed functions
Feature Description
Zowe enhancements The minimum required Zowe version for Unified Management Server 1.2 is version 2.3.0. The UMS installation process is updated to integrate with the new procedures introduced by Zowe 2.3.0.
Db2 Administration Foundation Db2 Administration Foundation 1.2.0.0 is released with UMS 1.2.0.0. For more information, see What's new in Db2 Administration Foundation.
Db2 DevOps Experience Db2 DevOps Experience 1.3.0.0 is released with UMS 1.2.0.0. For more information, see What's new in Db2 DevOps Experience.