What's new
You can find new versions, features, and enhancements listed by date and APAR.
December 2023 (Fix Pack 1) APAR OA65528, PTF UJ94185
- Bookmark support in the enhanced 3270 User Interface
- You can bookmark the main workspaces in the e3270UI for quick and easy access. Use the BOOKMARK, BOOK, or ADDALIAS commands when viewing a main workspace to add a bookmark (alias) to it. When saved, these bookmarks are reusable from any OMEGAMON product in the e3270UI. For more information, see the What's new in the e3270UI online help.
- New reporting attributes
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- zERT Policy Enforcement reporting: Two new attribute groups, zERT Policy Sessions Attributes (KN3ZPS) and zERT Policy Connections Attributes (KN3ZPC), return zERT Policy Enforcement data at the session and connection level.
- DVIPA DNS name reporting: The DVIPA attribute groups have been updated to return DNS
Names for the source and destination IP addresses:
- New KN3 DVIPA Connections (KN3DVC) attributes: Source Name and Destination Name
- New KN3 DVIPA Port (KN3DVP) attribute: DVIPA Name
- New KN3 DVIPA Route (KN3DVR) attribute: Target Name
- New KN3 DVIPA State (KN3DVS) attribute: DVIPA Name
- Enhanced First Workspace in e3270UI:
- The default first workspace (KN3STRTI) displayed in the e3270UI has been updated to report agent, TCP/IP, VTAM and Interface Status along with Application Health Status. If you prefer to maintain the previous first workspace view that displayed Application Health Status only, you can use the new Alternate Exceptions first workspace (KN3STRTN).
Version 6.1.0, September 2023
- Support for IBM® Z OMEGAMON® Data Provider
- IBM® Z OMEGAMON® AI for Networks is bundled with IBM® Z OMEGAMON® Data Provider to make OMEGAMON data available to applications and analytics platforms outside of OMEGAMON itself, including IBM® Instana Observability on z/OS (Instana), the Elastic Stack, and Splunk.
- Support for IBM® Z OMEGAMON® AI Insights
- IBM® Z OMEGAMON® AI for Networks integrates with IBM® Z OMEGAMON® AI Insights, a diagnostic tool that helps identify and forecast the performance of z/OS system resources and applications. IBM® Z OMEGAMON® AI Insights uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze the behavior of your network. It identifies issues such as excess transmit segments and drills down into the root causes contributing to anomalies. IBM® Z OMEGAMON® AI Insights generates alerts and sends timely warning messages ensuring proactive action. Historical data is used to build and update forecast models. Once trained, OMEGAMON AI Insights becomes proficient at identifying typical patterns. These discerned patterns are then presented through dashboards on Elastic Kibana. You can easily detect abnormal behavior and promptly troubleshoot by drilling down for more detail.
- Enhancements to the e3270UI Alias command
- These include: More Alias commands, the ability to select the Alias commands, and annotation that describes the Alias commands.
- Restructured e3270UI zERT summary workspaces
- The zERT summary workspaces now give more detailed summary information for TLS, SSH and IPSec sessions.
- Support for z/OS 3.1
- IBM® Z OMEGAMON® AI for Networks contains several enhancements
to support z/OS 3.1:
- Three new data fields have been added, to support z/OS Encryption Readiness Technology (zERT) TLS sessions. These are TLS Server Handshake Signature, TLS Client Handshake Signature, and TLS Negotiated Key Share. See KN3 zERT TLS Summary Attributes for more information.
- New and updated Enum values have been added for four SSH attributes in the KN3 zERT SSH Summary Attributes.
APAR OA64385, PTF UJ92664 (Fixpack FP 5.6.0-RKN-FP0012), May 2023
- Toleration for z/OS 3.1
- Maintenance updates that include support for z/OS 3.1. The IBM Z OMEGAMON Network Monitor 5.6.0 product can now run successfully on z/OS 3.1 with this APAR installed.
APAR OA63777, PTF UJ09240, (Fixpack FP 5.6.0-RKZ-FP0011), January 2023
- z/OS Container Extensions (zCX) Network monitoring
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- New workspaces in e3270ui and TEP to report zCX network usage:
- Reporting provided at both zCX instance and container level
- Default history collection enabled for publishing IBM® Z OMEGAMON® AI for Networks data to Analytic Platforms for AI Ops, OMEGAMON Data Provider enablement
- OMEGAMON® Data Provider makes OMEGAMON attributes available to applications and analytics
platforms outside of OMEGAMON. Historical collections are a prerequisite for using OMEGAMON Data
Provider. History collection has been enabled for the following tables, making them eligible for use
with OMEGAMON Data Provider:
- KN3 IP Counter Statistics Attributes (KN3GIC)
- KN3 TCP Counter Statistics Attributes (KN3GTC)
- KN3 Interface Statistics Attributes (KN3IFS) for a variety of supported interface types (OSA, RNIC, Hipersockets, etc.)
- TCPIP Applications Attributes (KN3TAP)
- TCP Listener Attributes (KN3TCL)
- Enhanced agent status reporting
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- The attribute group KN3 Agent Status Attributes (KN3AGS) has been updated to report metrics for agent CPU usage and time interval to last TCPC collection.
- Updated e3270ui and TEP workspaces providing additional metrics.
- Enhanced SMC reporting
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- The attribute group KN3 SMC-D Link Statistics Attributes (KN3SDL) has been updated to report Physical Network ID.
- The attribute group KN3 RNIC Status Attributes (KN3RNC) has been updated to report Line Speed and Multi-IP Indicator.
- Workspaces in e3270ui and TEP have been updated to report these new metrics.
APAR OA62559 (Fixpack FP0009), March 2022
- In addition to regular maintenance, IBM® Z OMEGAMON® AI for Networks APAR OA62559 (Fixpack FP0009) provides the following enhancements:
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- Shared Memory Communications (SMCv2) support
- Enhanced IPSec/IKE Tunneling reporting with z/OS V2R5 metrics