IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics is a solution that accelerates hybrid incident identification with near real-time operational analytics. It breaks the silos inside the enterprise to improve mainframe visibility by providing an end-to-end view of your IT environment. To learn more about the features and benefits, watch this video.
On May 26th, 2023, the continuous delivery release 5.1.1.10 was generally available, bringing the following new features and enhancements that will continue to enable you to manage your IT operations environment effectively and proactively:
- New MQ deep dive dashboards delivered on the Z Data Analytics Platform and the Elastic Stack
- Enhancements to the deployment and management of the Z Data Analytics Platform and the common services
- Currency support for Z Common Data Provider data types
- Enhancements to multiple Z Common Data Provider components
New MQ deep dive dashboards delivered on the Z Data Analytics Platform and the Elastic Stack
In the 5.1.0.8 release, we expanded our out-of-box insights with the delivery of seven new MQ dashboards on Splunk. Now, these MQ dashboards are also available for the Z Data Analytics Platform and the Elastic Stack. You can leverage these dashboards to uncover IBM MQ insights and accelerate incident identification.
Sample: MQ for z/OS System Dashboard
Enhancements to the deployment and management of the Z Data Analytics Platform and the common services
Major enhancements are made in this release to simplify the deployment and management of the key components in Z Operational Log and Data Analytics.
- Common services as shared services
Container-based components for Z Anomaly Analytics with Watson and Z Operational Log and Data Analytics can now share key components, simplifying deployment and management, reducing overall hardware requirements, and eliminating potential port conflicts.
- Consolidated deployment and management tools
The scripts for deploying and managing the Z Data Analytics Platform are now merged into the OCI container deployment and management scripts that have been in use for Z Anomaly Analytics with Watson. This enhancement provides the ability to manage Z Operational Log and Data Analytics and Z Anomaly Analytics with Watson either jointly or separately.
- Standalone installation of common services
The deployment script is enhanced to exclusively support the installation of the common services including the Problem Insights server, the Keycloak authentication service, gateway service, Kafka broker, Zookeeper, datastore and other services.
- Problem Insights server as OCI container
On Linux, the Problem Insights server is no longer a separately installable component. You can now deploy and manage the Problem Insights server as an OCI software container along with other container-based components included in Z Operational Log and Data Analytics.
Currency support for Z Common Data Provider data types
Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 5.1.1.10 expands support for data types with additional upgrades/currency support for the following records:
- The record definitions of MQS_115_1 and MQS_115_2 are updated to accommodate the latest log manager statistics and shared message data set (SMDS) statistics in IBM® MQ 9.3.
- The record definitions of IMS_07 and IMS_56FA are updated to accommodate the latest log records X'07' and X'56FA' in IBM Information Management System 15.3.
- The SMF_1154_97 data stream and its record definition are updated to support new fields in SMF 1154 subtype 97.
Enhancements to multiple Z Common Data Provider components
Multiple Z Common Data Provider components including the Configuration Tool, the data gatherers and the Data Streamer are enhanced to continue to provide advanced data streaming capabilities. For example,
- The Configuration Tool is redesigned to support the data collection of comprehensive data types by the Data Collector.
- The Data Collector now collects a broader range of data streams for SMF and log data types.
- The workload report function in the Data Streamer is now available for generating a statistics report to help you quickly diagnose the Data Streamer storage issues.
- The security communications between the Data Streamer and its subscribers are enhanced by leveraging a set of new scripts.
- And more ...
For a full list of new and changed functions in 5.1.1.10, see "What’s new in 5.1" in the IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 5.1 documentation.
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