What's new in 3.1.x

IBM Z® Service Management Suite 3.1.x provides various new automation features and components.

The following new functions and features are available with version 3.1.x of the suite. For details on installing these updates, refer to Upgrading from 2.4.x or Installing component products.

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 Enterprise Edition 1.1.11

IBM Service Management Unite Enterprise Edition 1.1.11 delivers the following major changes:

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

• 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 What's new in V1.1.11.0 (December 2023).

IBM Z ChatOps 1.1.4

IBM Z ChatOps 1.1.4 delivers the following major changes:

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

• 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.

IBM Z Software Asset Management 8.3

IBM Z Software Asset Management 8.3 delivers enhanced capabilities for the usage monitor, search module, machine inventory report, repository, and job server utility. Detailed capabilities can be found as follows:

• Automatically discover and identify IBM and third-party software running on the z/OS platform.
• Provide high-speed scanning and in-house application tagging to help you generate a complete inventory of everything on your system.
• Monitor software usage and related growth to help plan for future capacity needs.
• Generate interactive reports that provide convenient hyperlink drill down for more details.
• Lower costs by removing unused and obsolete software.
• Get full asset and license management capabilities with the integration of IBM Control Desk.
• Enable improved performance in operational jobs and reduce database disk space requirements.
• Provide support for long running tasks via the IBM Z Software Asset Management 8.3 Software Usage Monitor.
• Provide operating system currency for z/OS 3.1.
• Enable deletion of obsolete hardware records.

For more information, see What’s New in 8.3.

IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 6.1

IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 6.1 delivers the following new features:

• Support for z/OS 3.1
• Advanced analysis and forecasting with OMEGAMON AI Insights
  • Timely alerts
  • Enhanced performance monitoring
• Java heap monitoring enhancements

For more information, see What's new in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 6.1.

IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for Networks 6.1

New enhancements with this release include the following:

• Support for OMEGAMON Data Provider
• Support for OMEGAMON AI Insights
• Enhancements to the e3270UI Alias command
• Restructured e3270UI zERT summary workspaces
• Support for z/OS 3.1

For more information, see What's new in IBM® Z OMEGAMON® AI for Networks.

IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 6.1

IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 6.1 provides the following key new features:

• Support for OMEGAMON® Data Provider
• Support for OMEGAMON AI Insights
• Enhancements to the e3270UI Alias command
• Virtual Machine (VM) identification
• Support for z/OS 3.1

For more information, see What's new in IBM® Z OMEGAMON® AI for z/OS®.