7.5.0 Fix Pack 8 release

The following updates are available in Version 7.5.0 Fix Pack 8.

New in Fix Pack 8 release

IBM MQ Monitoring Agent
The enhanced 3270UI now supports improved administrative actions for queues, channels, and queue managers that provide user friendly tabbed panels for altering and creating objects. See the new options that are available on the Take Action pop-ups.
You can now initiate the backup of your queue manager definitions as an action from the enhanced 3270UI or automate a backup as an action in a situation.
New attribute group SMF Queue Statistics is created to support the new queue statistics data that is available in SMF type 115 records for providing current, recent and historical intervals of the data shown in new workspaces.
SMF Queue Statistics also allows you to detect situation related to any issues in this data.
New attributes are added to the Log Data Set Status attribute group for reporting the queue manager start RBA, the percent RBA used, and the percent RBA increased (since queue manager start).
Currency support is now provided for IBM MQ version 9.4.
You can now bookmark several KMQ workspaces in the enhanced 3270UI to navigate to frequently used workspaces.

HKMQ750 APAR: OA66867 . Fix Pack 7.5.0-TIV-KMQ-FP0008 in Fix Central (December, 2024)

IBM Integration Bus Monitoring Agent

New IBM Integration Bus V10.1 processing nodes are now supported.
You can now bookmark several KQI workspaces in the enhanced 3270UI to navigate to frequently used workspaces.

HKQI750 APAR: OA66868 . Fix Pack 7.5.0-TIV-KQI-FP0008 in Fix Central (December, 2024)

New in 2024

IBM MQ Monitoring Agent

New standard agent start WTO messages KMQAG100I and KMQAG101E are added in the agent.
Improved situation processing for the Channel Status attribute group when there are multiple situations started for it.
Various quality improvements, such as corrected values for some attributes in Application Connections and Queue Data, are available.

IBM Integration Bus Monitoring Agent

New standard agent start WTO messages KQIAG100I and KQIAG101E are added in the agent.

Various quality improvements, such as corrected values for some attributes in Message Flow Status for ACE on zCX, are available.

New in 2023

IBM MQ Monitoring Agent

Improved message manipulation usability using the move (m) and delete (d) actions, and the dead letter queue retry (r) action is now provided directly for message rows in applicable workspaces, including the ability to enter an action on multiple lines to process several messages at once.
Additional OMEGAMON Data Provider (ODP) support is provided to stream MQSC display command output by setting up KMQENV with the commands via embed member KMQ$PENV and configuring table MQSCPANEL for ODP collection. For example, you can use this capability to stream MQ object definitions.
Several attribute values derived from MQ SMF Type 115 data have been corrected.
Enhanced usability of several enhanced 3270UI workspaces.
Updated the MQI Monitoring feature so that it does not count reason code MQRC_NO_MSG_AVAILABLE as a failure in related Application Statistics.

IBM Integration Bus Monitoring Agent

Optional environment variable KQI_LOG_PERM is provided to specify the log file permissions, and the default is changed to rw-rw-r-- (664).

Currency support is now provided for IBM Integration Bus version 10.1.

Clarify take action commands in the enhanced 3270UI with regard to the commands available for IBM App Connect Enterprise on zCX.
The condition that causes unauthorized status for integration servers for IBM App Connect Enterprise on zCX has been corrected.
Quality improvements are done in enhanced 3270UI workspaces and agent processing.