PH70511: 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, including:
  
  	Enhanced the CI Apply API to re generate the DDL after Db2
  object changes are successfully applied, ensuring that Instance
  objects always reflect the latest definitions.
  	Added URL encoding support for the IDAA Wrapper APIs to
  properly handle special characters such as #.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: Users of the IBM Unified Management Server   *
  *                 for z/OS and the following experiences:      *
  *                 - Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS             *
  *                 - Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS     *
  *                 - IMS Administration Foundation 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, including:
  
  1. UMS-I-2 allow filtering of ums users from the user list
  2. DB2ZAUTMTL-I-66 Provide a mechanism in DB2 Admin foundation
     to prevent it from attempting to auto discover the specified
     DB2 instances
  3. DB2AE-I-11 Extend the field for Temporary Dataset HLQ on the
     Subsystem Registration UI screen.
  4. Data set allocations for new SMPE data sets to be used in
     future releases of UMS
  5. Convert from error to warning when z/OSMF restfiles call
     fails during subsystem registration
  6. Use r_admin in the backend for the endpoints that refresh the
     UMS list when the ESM is RACF
  7. Enhancement for IMS Administration Foundation:
     - One or more parameter marker characters "?" are supported
       for IMS SQL statements that are used in the
  "Catalog query" dashboard
     - DDL view in DBD/PSB Map supports COMMENTS ON statements
     - The new IMS DBD XML attribute "isPuredDBCS" is supported
  8. The following issues in IMS Administration Foundation:
     - Characters that can be used for a RECON ID were not
       strictly checked - both UI and API were fixed so that
       the RECON ID specified can be used as a data set qualifier
     - The syntax checking for IMS SQL when both 'GROUP BY' and
       'ORDER BY' are specified in an IMS SQL statement
     - Redundant blank lines are inserted between XML lines of
       the XML view in DBD/PSB Map
     - New message number IZPMS0149E is assigned to report
       an error in a configuration parameter in the UMS
       configuration member ZPIMSPM or IZPIMFPM
  9. The Application Registration dry run API previously ran in
     synchronous mode, which could lead to timeouts when
     processing applications with large numbers of objects or
     complex dependency structures.  To address this, the logic
     has been updated to run asynchronously, eliminating
     potential timeout issues.
  
  
      Additionally, we optimized the dry run implementation by
      removing redundant and duplicate queries to further improve
      performance.
  10. Connections to Db2 from UMS were attempted using the unique
      'name' of the subsystem and not the 'ssid' or default
      'attach name'. This caused the connections to not be
      be attempted due to invalid validation on name length.
  11. Previously, the Access Count column in the Tables tab sorted
      values incorrectly by considering only the first digit of
      each number. This issue has now been resolved, and the
      column sorts accurately based on the full numeric value.
  12. Expanded menu on the left side automatically collapses again
      if they click anywhere on some option on the screen.
  13. The UI shows "Failed to retrieve the DDL. Click view report
      for details." The detail view reports a 500 Internal
      Server Error. The log excerpt indicates a
      NullPointerException in the code. Request URL shown in the
      report points to a DDL service endpoint under ZLUX/UMS.
  

Problem conclusion

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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:

  UO07245

Modules/Macros

• IZPDB2SD IZPDISCP IZPHLOSD IZPIMSSD IZPMNFST IZPSERVE IZPSYSSD
  IZPUI
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  UNIFIED MGMT SV

• Fixed component ID

  5698UM100

Applicable component levels

• R120 PSY UO07245

     UP26/04/09 P F604  

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