July 2023: APAR OA64880

Architectural enhancement to enable alternative deployment options for attributes support.

Important: If you are an existing user of OMEGAMON® Data Provider, this APAR introduces changes that require you to perform upgrade steps.

Overview of changes:

OMEGAMON Data Broker
  • Updated Zowe™ cross-memory server load module, from Zowe 1.28.2, removes the previous restriction on the load module name.
OMEGAMON Data Connect
  • The previous monolithic JAR file has been split into one mapping extension JAR file per agent and one core JAR file.

    This new modular architecture enables alternative deployment options for attributes support, in addition to the conventional option of supplying attributes support with OMEGAMON Data Provider.

  • New user directories keep your site-specific configuration details separate from the installation directory.

    To run OMEGAMON Data Connect, you now refer to a user directory. A user directory contains a configuration file and, optionally, mapping extension JAR files.

  • Logging flood control suppresses duplicate messages.
  • Improved runtime exception handling offers more control and consistency for SpEL expressions in filters.
  • Refreshed attribute support introduces the latest attributes from agents.

For details, see the descriptions of breaking changes and other changes.

Documentation-only changes:

Prerequisites for OMEGAMON Data Provider
Lists new ways to get OMEGAMON Data Provider.
Where and how to run OMEGAMON Data Connect
A new topic that describes how you can run OMEGAMON Data Connect, a Java application, on various platforms. Includes subtopics that describe the installation and user directories, and how to use the supplied sample JCL procedure and shell script to run OMEGAMON Data Connect.