The names and version numbers of the installable components in the Jazz for Service Management installation packages can be a little confusing.  This post attempts to provide some clarification on the JazzSM installable components. What components make up the Jazz for Service Management installation package? For versions of Jazz for Service Management that are older than version 1.1.3 the available components are:  Administration Services  Administration Services UI  Security Services  Reporting Services environment  Registry Services  IBM... [More]

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When installing PI on the DASH host, the installation scripts should automatically configure SSO between DASH and PI for support of the PI console integration in DASH (the snowflake).  If you don't see the snowflake icon for the PI console integration, it likely means SSO between DASH and PI is not configured correctly.  Here are the requirements for the console integration between DASH and PI to work: 1) You must use the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) in the DASH login URL 2) The user must be a member of the following two groups in the... [More]

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An update to the Dash Tools toolkit is now available.  The major additions are: the Parm Detective tool - allows you to progressively explore and ultimately discover the parameters defined by any DASH data provider dataset. updates to the dashHub pages - i ntegrated TimeSe t event,  added Parm Detective page Full details and downloads are here Steve Diering

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As of the Jazz for Service Management mod release 1.1.2.0, the procedure installing TDI has changed. The two jar files( com.ibm.di.api.​bind.jar  and  com.ibm.di.api.​rest.jar) that were needed for DASH to communicate with TDI are no longer supplied in the JazzSM install. They are now being supplied with TDI 7.1.1 as of fix pack 4 The steps to install TDI 7.1.1 for Jazz SM 1.1.2.0 are as follows: Install  Tivoli Directory Integrator  Version   7.1.1. For more information on its requirements and how to install the software, see  Installing ... [More]

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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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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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An update to the Dash Tools toolkit is now available.  The major additions are: the Page Cycler widget which automatically cycles through a set of pages. the dashHub component contains a set of pages that illustrate the various tools provided by the Dash Tools toolkit Full details and downloads are here Steve Diering  

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Quite often we get asked from the field on different ways to easily launch external URLs from DASH. In this blog we will discuss about some of the options and look at one particular implementation in detail.   In this particular scenario, a dashboard administrator/page designer wants to launch an external URL (outside DASH, pointing to another IBM or non-IBM product) in response to the user clicking on a row in the list, table or a gauge widget. We will get the context from the widget and pass on to the external URL as query parameters.  ... [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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The Dashboard Application Services Hub component of JazzSM is quite good at creating dashboards suitable for use on large shared displays such as wallboards in critical operations centers or even informational displays in building lobbies.  But did you know that these displays can be configured to cycle through multiple dashboards on a timer? This is a frequently requested feature, but is not actually delivered as a feature of DASH.  It can be achieved with capabilities already supplied with DASH however: the ability to host custom HTML, the... [More]

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The next DASH version, scheduled for May 2015 (in JazzSM 1.1.2), includes an enhancement to the Table and Tree Table widgets that allows the page author to format the content of numeric data columns. The following use case scenarios will now be possible : Simple Formatting Format numbers to have 2 decimal places and be right aligned.  Eg: |     20.45| Format numbers to display as an integer, be centered, and include units text.  Eg: |   20 m   | Advanced Conditional Formatting Format numbers to have 1 decimal place, right aligned. ... [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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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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Gauges available at Dashboard Application Services Hub (DASH) can be used to represent a particular value and the corresponding status . Apart from the value they have an additional capability to show labels (at top and leading edge) which can be configured to a particular column of the selected Dataset. Refer ‘Value Status Gauge’ snapshot below with both the labels.     Have you ever wished that you could configure the labels to something static or a custom text? The solution is real simple. You just need to be in the Edit mode of the widget... [More]

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