PH65205: ENHANCEMENTS, USABILITY UPDATES, AND BUG FIXES FOR THE IBM UNIFIED MANAGEMENT SERVER FOR Z/OS V1.2

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Improvements and bug fixes to install and configuration, for
  example:
  - Updates to JDBC driver
  - Improved memory management in ums-security zss plugin
  - Suppress zos-newton-db2ifi messages when no Db2 experience is
  present
  - improved error handling when using a certificate based dba
  user
  

Local fix

• N/A
  

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: Users of the IBM Unified Management Server   *
  *                 for z/OS                                     *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: Enhancements, usability updates, and    *
  *                      bug fixes for the IBM Unified           *
  *                      Management Server for z/OS v1.2         *
  ****************************************************************
  Improvements and bug fixes to install and configuration, such
  as:
  
  - Updates to the Db2 JDBC driver
  - Improved memory management in ums-security zss plugin
  - Suppress zos-newton-db2ifi messages when no Db2 experience is
    present
  - Improved error handling when using a certificate based dba
    user
  - Configurable timeout for ZSS/ZIS
  - clarifications in example-izp.yaml
  
  Updates to Db2 subsystem registration such as:
  - Providing an option to refer to an existing set of
    DDb2 objects created during customization of Db2
    Administration Tool for z/OS 13.1
  - Creating objects if they do not exist, but no longer dropping
    and recreating existing Db2 objects
  - Altering stored procedures if a new wlm environment is
    provided instead of dropping and recreating
  - deprecation of "replace installation artifacts" to prevent
    unintentionally dropping Db2 objects from an existing Db2
    Administration Tool for z/OS configuration
  
  For IMS Administration Foundation:
  - The following new features are provided by this maintenance:
    - Support for generating IMS DDL on DBD and PSB map views
    - Support for transitioning between catalog query results and
      object dashboards
    - Support for navigating from IMS SQL processor to catalog
      query dashboard
    - Supporting seamless list conflict recovery for the public
      favorite SQL statement list in Catalog Query Dashboard
    - Improvement of the display of various data tables in the
      IMS Administration Foundation dashboard UI
    - Support of updating configuration members by IZPEXPIN JCL
      with new parameters added by IMS Administration Foundation
      PTFs
  - The following issue has been fixed by this maintenance:
    - TLS client authentication (mutual authentication) failures
      when connecting IMS Connect DRDA and command ports when
      IBM Semeru Runtime Certified Edition for z/OS version 17
      is used as the Java runtime for UMS
    - If IMS catalog database definition change is made after
      the PTF UO02516 provided by the APAR PH62462 is applied
      to IMS, an IMS object discovery job submitted from UMS
      fails with a return code of 8 and an object discovery
      error message of IZPMS0006E is displayed for the subject
      IMS data sharing group tile on the Registered Subsystems
      page of the IBM Unified Experience UI.
  

Problem conclusion

• Apply the PTF provided by this APAR
  

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:

  UO02772

Modules/Macros

• IZP2IFIP IZPDAJP  IZPDATPP IZPDISCP IZPGEN00 IZPIVP   IZPMIG00
  IZPMNFST IZPSERVE IZPSIQC0 IZPSIQD0 IZPSIQR0 IZPUI    IZPUSCP
  IZPYAML
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  UNIFIED MGMT SV

• Fixed component ID

  5698UM100

Applicable component levels

• R120 PSY UO02772

     UP25/04/16 P F504

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