The DASH (Dashboard Application Services Hub) component in the UI Services of IBM JazzSM product supports custom dashboarding via drag and drop. This enables customers and business partners to easily create tailored dashboards at their end easily, without any programming and minimal technical knowledge. But many times you may want the widgets to interact each other too, either to other widgets in same page or even another page. In this blog we will see how to do that and a quick peek into how it works.   DASH supports many events for... [More]

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Adding your custom content to DASH got even simpler. DASH 3.1.0.3 (JAZZ SM 1.1.0.3) added a feature called myBox. This allows you to add any custom  content like images for background or logo, JSPs, static HTML to your dashboard. Feature myBox is a pre-installed custom space for your web content. After adding your custom content to this space, you can use a well defined URL to add the content on your  dashboard Follow simple steps below 1. Add your custom content to mtBox:  Add your files to <DASH-HOME>\myBox\web_files directory. Example... [More]

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There is beauty in visualization, there is paradise in beautiful integration, then there is a Meat Loaf-esque attempt at tying this entry’s title to the intro. For the past two years we have been focusing on consolidating and correlating data from different data providers, and during that time we also put out a rather polished Registry Services Sample UI console that allowed people to  browse data stored in Registry Services. All the while we kept throwing a long look across the hallway - actually they sit on the floor above, their not so... [More]

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Dashboard Application Service Hub (DASH) is a fascinating advancement we have for our Cloud & Smarter Infrastructure platform. Management and operational users are in dire need of understanding the health and current state of their environment.   Since out-of-the-box dashboards never fully provide everything an organization requires, implementing customization is a priority. Users need to be able to create their dashboards on the fly for pertinent information. To have the capability to pull in data from various sources and then to be able... [More]

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The out of the box widgets that come in Jazz for Service Management with the Dashboard Application Services Hub (DASH) are built to show data coming from a data provider.  Several products already come with a data provider that is ready to go.  However, it may be the case that you would like to show some data that is currently not being served up from a data provider.  In these cases, you can use Tivoli Directory Integrator (TDI) to make this data available to DASH.  (Impact also allows you to get other data and make it available in DASH, but... [More]

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IBM Jazz for Service Management (JazzSM) version 1.1.1 was released towards end of 2014. You would have already seen this blog post briefly explaining the release contents. Also please note that the release was later refreshed to include critical security vulnerability fixes (including SSLv3 POODLE ). The refresh is available on IBM Fix Central , please update ASAP.   Apart from many enhancements and numerous defect fixes, there were also new Dashboard Widgets added in this release. In this blog, we will have a quick look at what these widgets... [More]

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This paper is a step-by-step solution guide to enable load balancing and high availability connections for the Jazz for Service Management (JazzSM) Dashboard component to the Netcool/Impact data provider cluster. Netcool/Impact 6.1.1 and higher provide out of the box solution capabilities by exposing Netcool/Impact data types and policy variables (user output parameters) through its user interface (UI) data provider to visualize its data through dashboard widgets. By using an IBM HTTP server to round robin HTTP(S) connections, we can improve... [More]

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Courtesy of my colleague Chris Appleton in Netcool/OMNIbus development, there is a new video on how they designed their own OSLC Service Provider for their upcoming 7.4 FP3 release. All standard disclaimers apply about release contents not being final until formally announced, but the work is already subject to external try-outs in the Jazz for Service Management hosted beta . This video was primarily created for systems integrators who already extend Netcool/OMNIbus and want to expand that integration to enable collaboration with other OSLC... [More]

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I want to share with the DASH community on how we can approach building some unique custom dashboards in DASH leveraging Netcool/Impact. With the intuitiveness of DASH, combined with the simple out of box integration for Impact we can put together a custom dashboard relatively quick.  One of the challenges that we see across numerous clients is the ability to customize a list of resources. In a typical environment, a user would have a combination of Windows, Linux, and UNIX servers. Within the Tivoli Enterprise Portal we have limited... [More]

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  Have you tried enabling your custom dashboards for mobile devices. I get this question very frequently. Its quite simple in DASH You need to create a view in DASH and enable it for mobile.  Navigate from Settings to Views panel and create new view and make sure to check the checkbox that says "Enable for Mobile" See the screen shot below Add all the dashboards that you wish to enable to this view. Next, login into DASH from your  mobile device to try out.  Another point to keep in mind when creating dashboards enabked for mobile is to... [More]

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I often get asked how to make some change to a chart in DASH when there isn't anything in our UI to get it done. Fortunately DASH's charting widget was designed to be extensible, and can be teased into doing almost anything you want with a little work. In this article I'll show you how to customize a chart by creating a heatmap chart with custom coloring. We'll learn a couple valuable techniques: how to create a new type of chart not currently available out of the box, and how to modify a chart's default rendering behavior.... [More]

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Have you had a chance to create a dashboard using the Table widget from the DASH palette?  If so, you've seen the message that appears after you've selected your dataset that says: "No visualization attribute found for mapping to dataset columns." Here's a quick screen shot                               I've been getting a number of questions recently about this message.  Even though you might interpret this as an error, this message does not indicate an error.  I guess depending on how you read it, it may sound a bit... [More]

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If I have multiple products deployed in an IT environment, I can use each of them individually. However, solving a problem often requires access to information from multiple products . For example, if I have a problem with a business application, I might need information about which servers and associated hardware and software support that application. I might then want to know details about how those servers are configured, which of them are overloaded, which ones have had recent configuration changes, and if there are error events being... [More]

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Do you have a need to create a navigation link in DASH that points to a page  displaying content from external url.    DASH has a handy widget called "Web Widget"  to help you with this. You can create a page in DASH via GUI or via command line for the scenario. I was taking a DASH consumer through the process and realized that posting this simple technique could help other DASH consumers as well. Read below for more.   If you like to create page via GUI, you can start  by  clicking  on the  "+" icon on far right. This will... [More]

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