On June 14, 2022 IBM has announced new releases for IBM Z Service Management Suite, IBM Z Monitoring Suite, IBM Z Service Automation Suite, IBM Z NetView for Continuous Availability, and IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS. This announcement details critical and exciting capabilities to support new middleware and the IBM z16 and are now generally available.
The following highlights some of the key capabilities that have been delivered as part of this announcement. For some enhancements, other blogs have been created specific to the new releases.
IBM OMEGAMON Monitor for z/OS V5.6 : The latest continuous delivery for this agent delivers new capability to support the IBM z16 cryptographic and system recovery boost capabilities. These enhancements were delivered by a PTF and are available for clients that have IBM Z Service Management Suite V2 or IBM Z Monitoring Suite.
The solution delivers a new cryptographic hardware overview workspace that is available in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal and e3270 UI. In addition, new situations specific to cryptographic hardware utilization have been delivered. The following screen shot shows the new cryptographic algorithm workspace available in the e3270 UI with the same detail available in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal.
For system recovery boost, new system usage details are also available in both the Tivoli Enterprise Portal and the e3270 UI. The following screen shot shows the eligible address space view with the system recovery boost details for each address space.
IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS, V5.6 (formerly known as IBM OMEGAMON for CICS on z/OS):This new release of the OMEGAMON for CICS agent delivers capability to support IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS 6.1 and includes new workspaces showing CICS Transaction
Program execution and performance. This new release of the OMEGAMON CICS agent is available standalone, with IBM Z Service Management Suite V2.3, or with IBM Z Monitoring Suite V1.3. For full details on the new OMEGAMON CICS release,
please see the blog that has been shared in this community.
IBM OMEGAMON for Db2 Performance Expert on z/OS 5.5: This new release of OMEGAMON for Db2 was announced previously and delivers support for IBM Db2 13 for z/OS. This version of the agent is required for any clients looking to move to Db2 13 for z/OS as previous versions are not compatible with Db2 13. This agent is also available standalone, with IBM Z SerVice Management Suite V2.3, or with IBM Z Monitoring Suite V1.3.
For details on the new IBM Z NetView 6.4 release, please see the blog that has been shared in this community. This new release has been included in the IBM Z Service Management Suite V2.3.
For details on the most recent automation and IBM Z Service Automation Suite updates, please see the blog that has been shared in this community.
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