IBM WebSphere Dashboard Framework V6.0 adds new graphical components and collaboration features
IBM United States Software Announcement 207-079April 17, 2007
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WebSphere Dashboard Framework V6.0 delivers:
- Enhanced collaborative capabilities, such as annotations, that help to improve people productivity and speed problem resolution
- New design components, such as dynamic maps and bullet graphs, to enhance a customer's ability to create visually attractive, intuitive dashboards that clearly highlight the issues that need attention
- Robust sample application that displays best practices and helps minimize the learning curve
- Enhanced spreadsheet capabilities, including support for exporting dashboard data to Open Document Format (.ods)
- Improved getting started experience that includes new tutorials that help developers quickly come up to speed on how to develop portlets with WebSphere Dashboard Framework
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| Overview |
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WebSphere® Dashboard Framework is a powerful and flexible tool for rapidly building dynamic composite dashboard applications on top of a service-oriented architecture. By using WebSphere Dashboard Framework, companies can quickly deploy highly tailored dashboards that consolidate data and processes from multiple back end systems. In addition, companies can facilitate problem resolution by enabling action right from the dashboard.
WebSphere Dashboard Framework V6.0 delivers:
- Enhanced collaborative capabilities, such as annotations, that help to improve people productivity and speed problem resolution. Through the new annotations feature, business users can address exceptions highlighted in the dashboard by adding in-context comments. When adding or responding to a comment, business users can upload related attachments, specify access rights, and dynamically alert users to the comment — all within an easy-to-use, point-and-click interface.
- New design components, such as dynamic maps and bullet graphs that enhance IT's ability to create visually attractive, intuitive dashboards that clearly highlight the issues that need attention. As such, business users can spend their time managing by exception, rather than trying to find potential issues within data-heavy reports.
- A robust sample application that displays best practices and helps minimize the learning curve. Included in this application are prebuilt portlets for sales, human resources, and customer support. Because these portlets are based on a service-oriented architecture, they can be quickly modified for company-specific data and processes, jump-starting development efforts.
- Enhanced spreadsheet capabilities, including support for exporting dashboard data to Open Document Format (.ods). In addition, WebSphere Dashboard Framework V6.0 delivers improved support for creating interactive charts and tables from complicated Microsoft™ Excel spreadsheets.
- An improved getting started experience that includes new tutorials to help developers quickly come up to speed on how to develop portlets with WebSphere Dashboard Framework. These new tutorials begin with creating a dashboard portlet, creating an interactive filter, and adding real-time alerts.
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| Key prerequisites |
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WebSphere Portlet Factory and Portlet Factory Designer V6.0.1 are prerequisites for WebSphere
Dashboard Framework V6.0.
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| Planned availability dates |
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- April 17, 2007 (electronic software delivery)
- April 30, 2007 (media and documentation)
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| Description |
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WebSphere Dashboard Framework delivers the following key benefits:
- Helps reduce dashboard development and maintenance costs by simplifying and speeding the entire dashboard development cycle
- Accelerates problem resolution by empowering dashboard users to drive action right from the dashboard, without having to pick up the phone or jump to one or more different systems
- Helps improve employee productivity by delivering tailored access to relevant information and alerts
- Leverages existing skills sets and infrastructures with standards-based tooling
- Helps improve decision-making processes and visibility into business operations with consolidated, timely data
- Increases dashboard flexibility and helps lower maintenance costs via business user configuration
Accessibility by people with disabilities
Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act: WebSphere Dashboard Framework is capable as of April 30, 2007, when used in accordance with IBM's associated documentation, of satisfying the applicable requirements of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, provided that any assistive technology used with the product properly interoperates with it.
You can request a U.S. Section 508 Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) containing details on accessibility compliance at
IPLA and subscription and support considerations
IPLA licenses can be transferred from one machine to another within, but not limited to an enterprise. You may aggregate the capacity for all the processors the product is operated on to achieve a more economic price. This will result in a single proof of entitlement (PoE). It is your responsibility to manage the distribution of Value Units within the limits of the entitlement of the product license.
Subscription and Support must cover the same capacity as the product
license entitlement. Subscription and Support will be available in the
country in which the agreement is made.
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| Statement of direction |
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The statement of direction for this product remains the same.
All statements regarding IBM's plans, directions, and intent are subject to change or withdrawal
without notice.
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| Reference information |
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Refer to 206-216 , dated September 5, 2006.
Availability of national languages
Product description Language GA date
WS Dashboard Framework V6.0.0 Multilingual April 30, 2007
(French,
Korean,
Chinese —
Simplified,
Spanish,
Portuguese-
Brazilian,
German,
Japanese,
Chinese —
Traditional,
English,
Italian)
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The following educational offerings are available:
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Call IBM training at 800-IBM-TEACH (426-8322) for catalogs, schedules, and enrollments.
Education support will be provided for the products in this announcement.
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| Offering Information |
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Product information is available via the Offering Information Web site
Also, visit the Passport Advantage® Web site
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No publications are shipped with this product.
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| Technical information |
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Hardware requirements
Recommended hardware configuration:
- CPU: Pentium® II 500 MHz (Pentium III 500 MHz, or higher recommended)
- Disc: 1 GB (plus space for development resources)
- Memory: 512 MB RAM (768 MB recommended)
Deployed portlets
There are no specific hardware requirements for deployed portlets. Portlets will run on all configurations approved for the particular operating system and application server or portal server used.
Software requirements
WebSphere® Portlet Factory V6.0.1 and Portlet Factory Designer are prerequisites.
Supported software configurations:
Operating systems
- Microsoft™ Windows™ 2000 Professional Service Pack 4
- Microsoft Windows 2003 — Enterprise or Advanced Editions
Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)
- IBM Rational® Application Developer V6 and V7
- Rational Software Architect
- Rational Web Developer
- Eclipse 3.1 and 3.2
Note: Eclipse SDK versions only.
Deployed applications
Operating systems
- Microsoft Windows Server 2000 (Service Pack 4), 2003 (Enterprise or Advanced Editions)
- Sun Solaris 10 (latest patch level required)
- IBM AIX® V5.3
- SUSE Linux™ 9.x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS Release 4
- i5/OS™ V5.3
Application servers
- WebSphere Application Server V.5.1, V6.0, and V6.1
- Apache Tomcat 5.5.x (development use only)
Portal servers
- WebSphere Portal V5.1, V5.1.0.2, and V6.0.0
- Portals complying with JSR-168 standard
Note: Support for JSR-168 specification only. IBM provides no explicit support for specific JSR-168 portal containers other than WebSphere Portal.
Web browsers
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and 7.0
- Netscape Communicator 8.x
- Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.1
JDK support
Java™ 2 SDK, Standard Edition V1.4.1, V1.4.2
Enterprise integrations (supported by WebSphere Portlet Factory V6.0) databases
- Oracle 10g
- Oracle 9i R2 V9.2.0.1.0
- Oracle 8i Enterprise R3 V8.1.7 (with thin driver for 8.1.7 or classes12.zip)
- Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (with msbase.jar, mssqlserver.jar, msutil.jar)
- IBM DB2® Enterprise Edition V8.1
- DB2 Enterprise Edition V7.2 (Fix Pack 7 required with db2java.zip)
IBM Lotus Domino®
Domino V5.x, V6.0, V6.5, and V7.0 (requires V6, or later NCSO.jar)
SAP solutions
- R3 V3.1h, or later (requires SAPCO.jar)
- SAP Business Warehouse
PeopleSoft systems
PeopleSoft 8.x systems require PSJOA.jar. (Any PeopleSoft 8.x, or later, system supports access to component interfaces via this jar.)
Siebel systems
Siebel 7.5.2, 7.5.3, and 7.8 require version-appropriate jar files:
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Siebel 7.5.x:
- SiebelJI.jar
- SiebelJI_Common.jar
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SiebelJI_enu.jar 7.8:
- Siebel.jar
- SiebelJI_enu.jar
Planning information
Software Maintenance is included with licenses purchased through Passport Advantage and Passport Advantage Express. Installation and technical support is provided by the Software Maintenance offering of the IBM International Passport Advantage Agreement. This fee service enhances your productivity, with voice and electronic access into IBM support organizations.
Packaging: WebSphere Dashboard Framework is distributed via a media package and electronic software distribution (ESD).
WebSphere Dashboard Framework media package is distributed in one package with the following:
- WebSphere Dashboard Framework Product CD.
- Softcopy product documentation including README files are on the product CD.
The LI form number for WebSphere Dashboard Framework is L-TRRJ-6XDNJR.
Security, auditability, and control
The customer is responsible for evaluation, selection, and implementation of security features,
administrative procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems and communication
facilities.
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IBM Software Services for Lotus (ISSL) has extensive experience in helping organizations derive quantifiable business value from their Lotus software investment. ISSL can evaluate your environment and provide recommendations to help mitigate risks, speed deployment, and accelerate returns by:
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This product is only available via Passport Advantage. It is not available as shrinkwrap.
Product information
Product
Licensed function title Product group category
IBM WebSphere Dashboard Framework IBM WebSphere IBM WebSphere
Dashboard Dashboard
PID Charge unit
Program name number description
IBM WebSphere Dashboard Framework 5724-S21 Value Unit
IBM WebSphere Dashboard Framework 5724-S21 SubCapacity
Value Unit
IBM WebSphere Dashboard Framework 5724-S21 Processor Day
Charge metrics definitions
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Passport Advantage program licenses
IBM WebSphere Dashboard Framework
Part description Part number IBM WebSphere Dashboard Framework WS Dashboard Framework Value D60ZRLL Unit License & SW Maintenance 12 Months WS Dashboard Framework Value E03SMLL Unit SW Maintenance Annual Renewal WS Dashboard Framework Value D60ZTLL Unit SW Maintenance Reinstatement 12 Months
Passport Advantage supply
Part
Program name/description number
WS Dashboard Framework V6.0.0
WS Dashboard Framework Windows 2000,SUSE Linux BS00AML
family,Solaris (Sun Microsy
Passport Advantage customer: Media pack entitlement details
Customers with active maintenance or subscription for the products listed are entitled to receive the corresponding media pack.
WS Dashboard Framework V6.0.0
Entitled maintenance Part
offerings description Media packs description number
IBM WebSphere Dashboard WS Dashboard Framework BS00AML
SubCapacity Value Unit Windows 2000,SUSE Linux
family,Solaris (Sun
Microsy
IBM WebSphere Dashboard WS Dashboard Framework BS00AML
Value Unit Windows 2000,SUSE Linux
family,Solaris (Sun
Microsy
Sub-capacity
IBM WebSphere Dashboard Framework
Part number Part description
D60ZULL WS Dashboard Framework
SubCapacity Value Unit License
& SW Maintenance 12
E03SNLL WS Dashboard Framework
SubCapacity Value Unit SW
Maintenance Annual Renewal
D60ZSLL WS Dashboard Framework
SubCapacity Value Unit SW
Maintenance Reinstatement
Sub-capacity for selected middleware products
Sub-capacity licensing on a per processor or per Value Unit basis is available for selected middleware products. To offer sub-capacity licensing, IBM software products implement IBM Tivoli® License Compliance Manager within their offerings so that you can monitor and report quarterly to IBM on the use of the programs on a continuous basis.
More information can be found on the Passport Advantage Web site
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Additionally, if this is the first product you have licensed under sub-capacity terms, you must agree to the terms of an attachment to your Passport Advantage or Passport Advantage Express contract and submit a new Passport Advantage enrollment form. First-time sub-capacity clients also have an opportunity to ensure a Primary Business Contact is established for their contracts.
For more information on required and entitled license capacity, license requirements and reporting, refer to 205-093 , dated April 19, 2005.
If you order this product under sub-capacity terms, IBM Tivoli License Manager for IBM Software will be made available to you if you do not already have one. You must install and configure this tool for your sub-capacity products. Alternately, you can use Tivoli License Manager. Once the license manager software is installed, you will be required to register online (IBM may need to contact you in order to finalize the registration process). You must monitor program use on a continuous basis with an IBM Tivoli License Manager for IBM Software and submit IBM Use Reports to IBM on a calendar quarterly basis.
IBM Tivoli License Manager for IBM Software is documented in the following customer publications, which are available from IBM Publications Center at
Form
Publication number
Planning, Installation, and SC32-1431
Configuration
Administration SC32-1430
Problem Determination SC32-9102
Data Dictionary SC32-1432
Release Notes SC32-1429
For IBM Tivoli License Manager configuration guidance and instructions for specific products (including this product) acquired with sub-capacity terms, refer to
The Web site will give you information about how to set up the product for detection by IBM Tivoli License Manager, any required maintenance, and any required steps that are unique to this product.
On/Off Capacity on Demand
IBM WebSphere Dashboard Framework
Part
Part description number
WS Dashboard Framework Processor Day Per Use-Day OOCoD D60ZQLL
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Program Form number
Program name number
IBM WebSphere Dashboard Framework 5724-S21 L-TRRJ-6XDNJR
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IBM Agreement for Acquisition of Software Maintenance (Z125-6011)
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