IBM Z System Automation

GA of new SMU V1.1.5 -- SMU exploitation and integration with Zowe

  • 1.  GA of new SMU V1.1.5 -- SMU exploitation and integration with Zowe

    Posted Mon January 14, 2019 08:11 AM

     

    To continue modernizing the automation and monitoring on IBM Z, SMU V1.1.5 is integrated with Zowe to provide more capabilities to facilitate the operation on the mainframe.

    SMU 1.1.5 is available since December 14th, 2018.

     

    What is SMU?

    SMU is a customizable service management user interface that provides dashboards to monitor and operate z system environments.

    SMU consists of the following two components:

    • Service Management Unite Automation: Provides a single point of control for multiple SAplexes to operate in your environment.
    • Service Management Unite Performance Management: Provides comprehensive dashboards to help you monitor and manage z/OS operating systems, networks, storage, and other subsystems.

    Fore more information about SMU, see Overview of  Service Management Unite.

    What is Zowe?

    Zowe offers modern interfaces to interact with z/OS and allows you to work with z/OS in a way that is similar to what you experience on cloud platforms today. You can use these interfaces as delivered or through plug-ins and extensions that are created by clients or third-party vendors.

    Zowe consists of the following main components:

    • Zowe App Framework: Contains a Web user interface (UI) that provides a full screen interactive experience. The Web UI includes many interactions that exist in 3270 terminals and web interfaces such as IBM z/OSMF.
    • Explorer server: Provides a range of APIs for the management of jobs, data sets, z/OS UNIX System Services files, and persistent data.
    • API Mediation Layer: Provides an API abstraction layer through which APIs can be discovered, catalogued, and presented uniformly.
    • Zowe CLI: Provides a command-line interface that lets you interact with the mainframe remotely and use common tools such as Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), shell commands, bash scripts, and build tools for mainframe development. It provides a set of utilities and services for application developers that want to become efficient in supporting and building z/OS applications quickly.

    For more information about Zowe, see Zowe overview.

    What is SMU exploitation and integration with Zowe?

    Integrated with Zowe, SMU offers extended functions to allow you to interact with z/OS resources, such as managing JES and MVS details in the SMU dashboards. When Zowe is installed and configured to connect with the SMU server, you can interact with mainframe data sets and jobs like modern cloud or desktop platform.

    Note: The Zowe release that is certified to be used by SMU is currently available at a beta level.

    • A Zowe application plug-in (SMU plug-in) is provided for SMU to allow you to use SMU directly on Zowe Desktop and leverage free and commercial APIs in Zowe Application Framework.
    • A new JES Explorer dashboard is provided to allow you to view job content and job output to isolate environmental issues. The JES Explorer dashboard can be started from SA APL resources and from jobs displayed on the LPAR details page.
    • A new MVS Explorer dashboard is provided to allow you to view and edit data sets to fix environmental issues. The MVS Explorer dashboard can be started from the Volume Details page that uses data set information coming from OMEGAMON for Storage.

     

    Please have a look on this video:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7qg08ca8oo

     

    Why should you use SMU exploitation and integration with Zowe?

    • New plug-in on Zowe Desktop

      You can quickly and easily access the SMU plug-in on Zowe Desktop where other common tools are available, which gives you a unified and integrated user experience.

    • Improved problem identification

      You can isolate environmental issues by seamlessly navigating into the JES Explorer dashboard to view any job information without the need to switch the application or use another terminal.

    • Improved problem resolution

      You can fix environmental issues by seamlessly navigating into the MVS Explorer dashboard to view and edit any JCL, REXX, or SYS1 .PAR MLIB -mem ber .

    • Reduced Time-to-Value (TTV)

      New developers or system programmers can quickly get onboard to work on the mainframe.

    Download SMU installation package at:

    SMU Automation:

    http://ibm.biz/smu-sa-download

    SMU in SMSz:

    http://ibm.biz/smu-smsz-download

    Download Zowe installation package at:

    https://zowe.org/download/

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