On Oct. 21st 2025, IBM was pleased to announce the new set of following Z Automation products release from AIOps on IBM Z team.
· IBM Z Service Automation Suite (zSAS) 1.8
· IBM Z System Automation (SA) 4.4
· IBM Z NetView (NV) 6.5
· IBM Z NetView for Continuous Availability 6.5
· IBM Z Automation Web Console 1.2 (formerly known as IBM Service Management Unite / SMU)
· IBM Z ChatOps 1.1.5
Read the full announcement here.
These releases have been GA’ed on Oct. 24th 2025.
What’s in it for Clients?
These set of releases combined together will help clients with their continued journey in modernizing their complex IT operations using much stronger yet flexible integration with IBM and non-IBM solutions taking advantage of watsonx and its AI capabilities…
o Providing GenAI based explanations to incidents
o Infused AI to remediate incidents quicker and more pro-actively
o WXA4Z AI agents for SA, NV and zWS
At a glance, few of the Key Enhancements and Value for our Customers are…
Z NetView v6.5 (NV)
Continues to deliver robust automation, network, and systems management for IBM Z
o Improved support of system & network management for hybrid cloud workloads
- Message automation improvements
- REST server support for Semeru (Java) 21
- Zowe CLI V2 plug-in support
o IPv6 support for Event/Automation Service, which completes NetView’s support for IPv6
Program information, including system requirements and details on what’s new in this release, is available in IBM Documentation.
Z System Automation 4.4 (SA)
SA continues to modernize IT automation helping clients with managing their hybrid cloud environment. In addition, it provides the foundation for AI scenarios to help enable Agentic workload to use SA automation.
o Hybrid cloud modernization and lays the foundation for AI-driven, agentic system automation
o More Transparent, robust and consistent maintenance/migration methodology and tools - “SA Customization API” (REST).
o Introduces standard RESTful inbound/outbound interfaces
o Enhanced SA Operations API now powers the updated SA Plugin for Zowe CLI
o Provides a sample policy for z/OS Container Platform (Kubernetes) to automate containerized workloads.
Program information, including system requirements and details on what’s new in this release, is available in IBM Documentation.
Z Automation Web Console 1.2 (ZAC)
IBM Z Automation Web Console, formerly known as IBM Service Management Unite, is a customizable, web-based systems management user interface that provides system programmers, operators, and administrators a transparent view of the status of the system health, supports enterprise-wide operations and administrative capabilities, and enables the creation of custom dashboards.
IBM Service Management Unite is renamed to IBM Z Automation Web Console, emphasizing the focus on the web user interface for IBM Z NetView and IBM Z System Automation.
IBM Z Automation Web Console contains new and enhanced dashboards for policy reporting and for hardware management using data from SA ProcOps.
Program information, including system requirements and details on what’s new in this release, is available in IBM Documentation.
IBM Z ChatOps 1.1.5
Enhancements in IBM Z ChatOps 1.1.5 include:
o Support to receive incidents as Event Integration Facility (EIF) events.
o Support integration with ServiceNow to create, view, edit ServiceNow incidents from a supported chat tool, and show related ServiceNow tickets in context of an incident alert.
o Supports Microsoft Workflows instead of traditional Microsoft Teams bots for incidents.
o Enhanced integration with IBM watsonx Assistant for Z.
Program information, including system requirements and details on what’s new in this release, is available in IBM Documentation.
IBM Z Service Automation Suite 1.8
IBM Z Service Automation Suite is a simply priced, easy-to-order package of programs that enables easy deployment of an integrated set of systems management functions.
IBM Z Service Automation Suite 1.8 includes:
o IBM Z System Automation 4.4
o IBM Z NetView 6.5
o IBM Z Workload Scheduler 10.2
o IBM Z Automation Web Console Enterprise Edition 1.2
o IBM Z ChatOps 1.1.5
o IBM Discovery Library Adapter for z/OS
o IBM Z Common Data Provider
o IBM Z Resource Discovery
Program information, including system requirements and details on what’s new in this release, is available in IBM Documentation.