What is new

The following enhancements were introduced in the current release.

Effective Oct 14, 2019 IBM has announced the following changes in the entitlement of BigFix, which HCL acquired in June 2019:

To continue using BigFix for Patching, you must purchase BigFix from HCL or an authorized BigFix reseller. A replay of HCL’s BigFix roadmap can be found here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/5699647677344055565. Please contact Mark Phinick at HCL for BigFix licensing information and pricing. Mark’s email is mark.phinick@hcl.com. This entitlement change applies to the supported IBM® Cloud Orchestrator versions 2.4 and 2.5, and is also applicable to the Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition variants of IBM Cloud Orchestrator.

Integration with Ansible Tower

For more information about the Ansible toolkit, see enablement/ansible/ansible_introduction.html.

Delete requests history

You can remove requests from the history of IBM Cloud Orchestrator. For more information, see Deleting request history.

Currency support for IBM Cloud Orchestrator:

Table 1.

IBM Cloud Orchestrator components	Versions included
IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack	4.3 FP 14
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	7.6
IBM HTTP Server	8.5.5.16
vCenter	6.7 U1b
NSX	6.4.5
IBM Java JDK	8.0.5.40
WebSphere Application Server	8.5.5.16
PowerVC	1.4.3

Note: The currency support that is listed is specific to new inclusions in V2.5.0.10. For more information about software requirements, see Checking the software prerequisites.

For supported versions of Data Protection and Recovery, Databases and Process Management tools, see the Prerequisites tab of https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/compatibility/clarity-reports/report/html/softwareReqsForProduct?deliverableId=1386584144400.

For the software prerequisites of the OpenStack environment, check either the IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack prerequisites (at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SST55W_4.3.0/liaca/liacasoftware.html) or refer to the documentation of your vendor-specific OpenStack distribution.

Currency support for IBM SmartCloud® Cost Management 2106 ifix07:

Table 2.

IBM SmartCloud Cost Management	Versions included
IBM Java JDK	8.0.5.40