OA62988: UPDATES TO ANOMALY ANALYTICS 5.1.0.7

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• IBM Z Anomaly Analytics with Watson.Continuous Delivery 5.1.0.7
  

Local fix

Problem summary

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  * USERS AFFECTED: All users of IBM Z Anomaly Analytics with    *
  *                 Watson                                       *
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  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: This is a Continuous Delivery PTF.  See *
  *                      the Problem Summary for details.        *
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  * RECOMMENDATION: All users of IBM Z Anomaly Analytics with    *
  *                 Watson should install this PTF.              *
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  (1) Applying maintenance and continuous delivery PTFs to the
  metric-based machine learning system requires the runtime
  environment to be removed and re-created.
  
  (2) The database=cleandata command does not remove any SMF data.
  To clean out or prune SMF, SQL queries must be manually executed
  against the enterprise data warehouse database.
  
  (3) There is a single configuration parameter IZOA_DB2HLQ that
  specifies the high-level qualifier for both the Db2 SDSNLOAD and
  SDSNEXIT libraries. If these two libraries are installed with
  different qualifiers in the data set name, the database command
  used to manage the enterprise data warehouse database will fail
  for most command options.
  
  (4) There is no way to set a threshold for what scores are sent
  by the metric-based machine learning system to the Problem
  Insights server rules engine.
  
  (5) The Problem Insights server is unable to read data from the
  enterprise data warehouse database and display it on the user
  interface if the zParm DECIMAL=COMMA is set on Db2 for z/OS.
  

Problem conclusion

• (1) This PTF requires the runtime environment to be removed and
  re-created but will be the last to do so. Future PTFs will not
  require the metric-based machine learning runtime environment
  to be removed and re-created if this on has been installed.
  
  For more information see "Upgrading the runtime for the
  metric-based machine learning system from Version 5.1.0.7 or
  later to Version 5.1.0.8 or later" in the documentation.
  
  (2) The database=cleandata command is removed and replaced by
  two new commands:
  
        - database=cleandata_history which removes unneeded SMF
          and IMS data from historical database table
        - database=cleandata_ml which removes unneeded analysis
          results data from the machine learning system database
          tables
  
  For more information see "Command reference for operating the
  metric-based machine learning system" in the documentation.
  
  (3) The IZOA_DB2HLQ metric-based machine learning configuration
  parameter, which specifies the high-level qualifier for the Db2
  product installation, is removed. This was used to access the
  Db2 SDSNLOAD and SDSNEXIT data sets. It is replaced by the
  IZOA_SDSNLOAD_DSN and IZOA_SDSNEXIT_DSN configuration
  parameters, which specify the fully qualified data set names of
  the Db2 SDSNLOAD and SDSNEXIT libraries.
  For more information, see the sample izoaml.config file in the
  $IZOA_HOME/samples directory.
  
  (4) When starting the metric-based machine learning continuous
  scoring agent you can use the --IZOA_ML_PROP_FILE parameter to
  specify that not all anomaly scores should be sent to the rules
  engine when scoring. To do this set the following properties in
  the file passed to the --IZOA_ML_PROP_FILE parameter:
  
           - Set isSendAll to false for the notification stage
           - Set thresholdScore to the minimum score that you want
             to be sent to the rules engine
  
  For more information, see the sample
  IZOA_DB2HEALTH_ML.properties, IZOA_CICSHEALTH_ML.properties,
  IZOA_MQHEALTH_ML.properties and IZOA_IMSHEALTH_ML.properties
  files in the $IZOA_HOME/samples directory.
  
  (5) The queries used by the Problem Insights server are modified
  to be compatible with the zParm DECIMAL=COMMA.
  
  (6) The metric-based machine learning system can analyze IMS
  metrics.
  
    Restriction: The IBM IMS Insight Pack is not supported by the
                 Problem Insights server on IBM z/OS UNIX System
                 Services. If you want to analyze IMS log data,
                 the Problem Insights server must be installed on
                 a supported Linux operating system.
  
  For more information see "KPIs that are analyzed by the IBM
  IMS Insight Pack", "IMS log data" and "Configuring the System 
  Data Engine for collecting IMS records".
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

  UJ08641

Modules/Macros

• AIH1001  AIH10021 AIH10022 AIH10023 AIH10031 AIH10041 AIH10061
  AIH10062 AIH10081 AIH10091 AIH115BP AIH115CF AIH115LG AIH115PS
  AIH115S2 AIH6E107 AIH6E210 AIH6E229 AIH6E262 AIH6E288 AIHCDP
  AIHI4502 AIHI4503 AIHI4506 AIHI4507 AIHI56FA AIHIMGPX
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  Z ANAL ANALYTIC

• Fixed component ID

  5698ABH06

Applicable component levels

• R510 PSY UJ08641

     UP22/06/14 P F206

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