What's new in V1.1.9 (March 2022)

This information contains an overview of the major changes to IBM® Service Management Unite Automation V1.1.9.

  • New dashboard - SDF Messages Overview
    With the new dashboard for SDF messages, you can easily view and operate all captured messages and Write to Operator with Reply (WTOR) messages in your environment on a single dashboard. Service Management Unite leverages the new System Automation Info Broker, included in IBM Z® System Automation 4.3, which streams SDF messages to Service Management Unite via Apache Kafka for near real-time dashboard updates. You can monitor the priority of the messages at a glance and delete the captured messages or reply to the WTOR messages directly from the dashboard.
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  • New dashboard - Manage Dynamic Resources
    The new dashboard for dynamic resources management allows you to dynamically create applications that are automated by Z System Automation based on predefined templates. You can view the dynamic resources and the available templates. In addition, you can easily create dynamic resources through a guided workflow and resume dynamic resources. For more information, see How to: Create dynamic resources from the predefined templates.
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  • Miscellaneous enhancements and fixes
    • The Request Start function is enhanced. You can now specify the start type when you send a request to start automation resources. Valid start types are NORM (default) and any other types that are defined in the policy database.
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    • The status of the SA agent is mapped to a richer set of status icons so you can easily distinguish important status information.
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      For more information, see How to: Customize the widget to show the SA agent status.
    • The IBM Service Management Unite console URL is customized and enhanced when the port number of the console is set to 443.