Dear SA Users,
We have released a new release of IBM Service Management Unite Automation, the web-based dashboard user interface for System Automation.
IBM® Service Management Unite Automation V1.1.4 provides the following key new features:
- The installation of SMU is simplified with a prebuilt Docker image. See Installing and uninstalling SMU Automation with Docker.
- "Ask Watson" dashboard is added as an open beta feature to provide a cognitive documentation search.
- To ensure a reliable system with high performance and less downtime, you can set up SMU with high availability. See Setting up Service Management Unite with High Availability.
- With APAR OA55386 installed in System Automation for z/OS V4.1, SMU Automation can automate applications that run on non-z/OS systems using the included Universal Automation Adapter. This allows for true cross-platform end-to-end automation. See Universal Automation Adapter concept in Service Management Unite Automation architecture.
- SA operations experience is enhanced:
- For a stop, start, or suspend request, you can choose the new REMOVE=SYSGONE option to automatically remove the request when the system where the selected resource runs, leaves the sysplex.
- The resource status of a system is now represented as the worst compound status of all top-level resources running on that system. This can be combined with a Resource name filter or Resource class filter as data set parameter. In this case, the worst resource state is derived by the worst compound state of all resources on the system that match the specified filter criteria.
- A Hide operational tasks option is added into the automation domain topology and automation node list data sets. Choose this option if the context menu of nodes that are contained in these data sets should not include any operational tasks, such as excluding a node.
The following blog entry gives an overview of the new features:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/91f16cce-c251-4278-931f-315f40d1e148/entry/Welcome_to_explore_the_new_features_in_Service_Management_Unite_V1_1_4?lang=en_us
Download Links
SA customers:
IBM Service Management Unite Automation download page: https://www.ibm.com/marketing/iwm/iwm/web/preLogin.do?source=swg-ibmsa
To access the download link you will need your IBM customer ID and password as well as the access key which is supplied with the product materials on a CD titled Accessing IBM System Automation for z/OS Service Management Unite CD-ROM. The form number is LCD8-2753-00.
Knowledge Center Link: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSWRCJ_4.1.0/com.ibm.safos.doc_4.1/CMIS/smufsa.html
Kind regards,
Wiltrud Rebmann
WiltrudRebmann