IBM Tivoli NetView for z/OS V5 (2002)
- TCP/IP and SNMP Management
- Dynamic Virtual IP Addressing (DVIPA) and Sysplex Distributor support. NetView dynamically discovers DVIPAs for all defined TCP/IP stacks, and provides configuration and status information for each DVIPA configured for a Communication Server for OS/390 or z/OS Communication Server TCP/IP stack. For DVIPAs participating in the sysplex distributor function, information about the distributor and associated target stack is displayed, including the target stack's XCF IP addresses. TCP/IP connection data for a DVIPA is also provided.
- Native Ping and SNMP commands. Ping and SNMP commands, including SNMP v3 functionality, are now implemented in the NetView address space, rather than Unix System Services (USS). This improves performance and eliminates the need for the system programmer to set up USS for these functions.
- TCP/IP Discovery on Linux on zSeries. This new process runs on Linux on zSeries and provides function equivalent to the MultiSystem Manager TCP/IP agent running on Tivoli NetView for AIX and NT.
- Connection Monitoring and Thresholding.
- Automation can now monitor connections to any application (any socket) on an OS/390 or z/OS host. For those connections, policy-based thresholds can be set to detect that:
- No activity has occurred over a specified time period
- A minimum number of bytes has not been sent over a specified time period
- A maximum number of bytes sent has been exceeded over a specified period of time
- Automation can now monitor connections to any application (any socket) on an OS/390 or z/OS host. For those connections, policy-based thresholds can be set to detect that:
- NetView System Programmers can define one or more responses to thresholds being reached or exceeded:
- No action, ignore the instance
- Generate a NetView message and notify the appropriate personnel as specified in NetView notification policy (e.g., e-mail, pager, TEC event)
- Break the connection
- NetView Web Application
- Web Console. The Web console in NetView for z/OS V5R1 is completely redesigned, functionally enriched, and easier to use. The Web console makes NetView more accessible from wherever you are, thus allowing you to leverage your scarce network support resources, making your people more effective in performinag tasks such as TCP/IP diagnostics and managing SNMP-based resources.
- Support for an external Web (HTTP) server. Using either the WebSphere™ Application Server or a NetView-provided Java-based servlet engine allows NetView to take advantage of the industry-standard Java Servlet 2.2 API to provide new Web-based functions more quickly. A web.xml editing tool is also provided to simplify the task of configuring the WebSphere Application Server or the NetView-supplied servlet engine.
- Web Security. Access to NetView through its Web interface is authenticated through the operator's NetView user ID and password. Authorization for specific functions is provided through standard NetView-based security.
- Time to Value
- Style Sheet. Customization of NetView for z/OS is further simplified, again reducing the time needed for deployment. Use of the style sheet (CNMSTYLE in DSIPARM) introduced in NetView for OS/390 V1R4 has been expanded to include common TCP/IP definitions, MultiSystem Manager initialization definitions (except the GETTOPO definitions), tower selection options for the hardware monitor, session monitor, and 4700 support facility, and the remaining DSIDMN definitions. This consolidates most customization parameters in a single location, covering most of the components of a NetView install.
- Streamlined packaging. Packaging options have been consolidated into one orderable entity, simplifying the ordering and installation processes and reducing documentation.
- Elimination of normal non-zero return codes. Conditions leading to the few remaining expected non-zero return codes that occurred with a successful install have been eliminated, thus saving significant time during installation.
- Consolidated Datasets. The RODM and AON datasets have been merged into the base NetView datasets.
- Linux.
NetView for z/OS V5R1 now supports Linux on zSeries as an additional platform. The availability of NetView functions, such as TCP/IP discovery, SNMP services, and the NetView Management Console topology server on this new platform, gives you the flexibility to consolidate your distributed management footprint, and to take further advantage of your zSeries investment. - Security
- Support for SAF surrogate authority for TSO commands. This provides increased customer control over who is allowed to submit TSO commands from NetView.
- NMC Audit Log. The NMC Topology Server now has a customizable log that provides customers with a record of console and server activity, including command to be executed, command responses, NETCONV communication start and stop, and others. This browser-enabled log is an ASCII flat file formatted in XML. Thus, it can be edited with a plain-text ASCII editor, viewed with recent web browser releases, and customers can use industry standard XML parsers to create their own reports. Both CSS and XSL samples are provided to allow browser display.
- Automatic logging of suppressed operator commands. Customers now have the option of identifying suppressed operator commands that should be logged in whole or in part. This ensures the auditability of all operator-entered commands.
- NMC signon protection. NetView command authorization security can now be used to specify which operators have authority to logon on to the NetView Management Console.
- Command Authorization Checking in context. A new command list function is available for turning on and off command authorization checking within a command list. This ensures that operators are allowed to execute sensitive, customer-selected commands only within the context of specified command lists.
- NetView Management Console (NMC) and Graphical Management
- Linux support. The NMC Topology Server is now available on Linux on zSeries, and the NMC Topology Console on Linux on Intel platforms.
- Resource-specific commands for TCP/IP resources. Commands that are specific to TCP/IP resources can now be defined through the Command Profile Editor. This provides for the inclusion of these commands in context (pop-up) menus that appear as the result of right clicking on a selected resource.
- NMC Audit Log. The NMC Topology Server now has a customizable log that provides customers with a record of console and server activity, including command to be executed, command responses, NETCONV communication start and stop, and others. This browser-enabled log is an ASCII flat file formatted in XML. Thus, it can be edited with a plain-text ASCII editor, and customers can use industry standard XML parsers to create their own reports. Both CSS and XSL samples are provided to allow browser display.
- NMC signon protection. Customers can now restrict which NetView operators have the authority to log onto the NetView Management Console.
- Interoperability with Tivoli Business Systems Manager (TBSM). TBSM can now be launched in context from the NMC, and likewise, the NMC can be launched in context from TBSM. This increased interoperability allows operators to quickly see which business systems are affected by malfunctioning network or system resources, and conversely, to perform more detailed problem determination on network or system resources that are degrading a business system. This interface is also available to allow other vendors to provide applications to launch NMC in context.
- The ability to run the NMC Topology Server and the TBSM Task Server on the same workstation.
- IP Port Parameter on NETCONV command. Users can now specify the port number as well as the IP address/name on the NETCONV command. This allows for more flexibility at the machine running the NMC server, which may also be running servers of varying other products and functions.
- Application Programming
- Asynchronous View panel processing. REXX programmers can now create VIEW panels that can be updated on an event or timed basis. These dynamic updates do not interfere with an operator's typing or entering data on the VIEW display.
- Miscellaneous
- Program-to-Program Interface (PPI) problem determination enhancements. When using the DISPPI command to display buffer and trace information for the PPI, additional information is provided, including the address space ID of the PPI receiver. PPI trace entries also include the addresses of the ASCB and TCB of the PPI requester and receiver (if different from the requestor). This additional information makes for easier diagnosis of PPI-related problems.
- Pipes. Additional PIPE stages and EDIT orders increase the capabilities of pipelines to work with commands, messages and other data.
- DIVERT: routes primary input to primary or secondary output, giving programmers fine control over when and where messages flow in the pipeline
- PERSIST: enables a programmer to specify a rule for disposition of correlated messages after the pipeline ends.
- ROUTE: sends messages to another task
- PIPE EDIT orders can now read and set the automation control flags in messages, convert readable date/time to store clock values, and reverse the order of lines in a multi-line message:
- COPYREV: copies one or more lines in a multiline message from input to output. The order of output is in descending order.
- DTS: assumes the input text is a 17-character local time in the format MM/DD/YY HH:MM:SS and converts it to a store clock (STCK) value.
- IFRAUHND: use as input the automation action flag from the message.
- IFRAUMTB: use as input the automation submission flag from the message
- IFRAUNEX: use as input the forbid exposure flag from the message
- NOEXPOSE: sets the IFRUNEX automation flag
- ONTO: redefines the logical end of the input line
- RESETAUTO: sets the IFRAUHND, IFRAUMTB, and IFRAUNEX automation flags to zero
- SETAUTO: sets the IFRAUMTB automation flag to zero
- MultiSystem Manager.
- MSMIP Router Fault Isolation. Exploiting the fault isolation support from Tivoli NetView 6.0.1 and later, NetView for z/OS V5R1 provides improved problem isolation for router-connected resources.
- MSMIP Trap Router.
- Hot Backup enablement. NetView now provides the ability to forward status-reporting traps from a TCP/IP agent to multiple hosts, thus enabling customers to maintain topology and status in both a production and hot backup environment.
- Trap filtering. Traps can now be filtered at the workstation to avoid sending unnecessary traps to a NetView host. This conserves bandwidth by forwarding the right traps to the right hosts.
- Mixed case in Automation Tables. The NetView Automation language now supports mixed case. This reduces the likelihood of typographical errors and allows for more visually appealing, and therefore potentially easier to maintain, automation code.
- Cross-Domain Timer enhancements. The TIMER command has been enhanced to provide customers the ability to view and manage timers for any NetView domain from a central NetView using native NetView services. Cross-domain support is no longer limited to a sysplex environment and no longer requires System Automation for OS/390.
- Access to NetView publications from a NetView 3270 console. This provides easy operator access to NetView manuals from any console that supports the display of PDF-formatted documents.
- Dynamic E-mail support. The NetView e-mail service now dynamically submits to SMTP instead of using batch jobs. This increases the performance and reliability of using e-mail for notification purposes.
- Event/Automation Service serviceability enhancements. The OS/390 Event/Automation Service (E/AS) provides additional error messages and problem determination aids to enable better problem resolution for TCP/IP connectivity problems. The DISPLAY STATUS command has been enhanced to show more granular status relating to TCP/IP connectivity for the event adapters. A new SETTINGS command now provides feedback on the current configuration settings being used by the service.
- The following functions are withdrawn, beginning with this release:
- on OS/2:
- NetView Management Console (NMC) server and console
- NetView 3270 Management Console (NMC3270)
- Event/Automation Service (E/AS)
- Visual BLDVIEWS (VBV)
- APPN Topology and Accounting Agent (APPNTAA)
- on Windows 95/98:
- NMC console
- NMC3270
- E/AS
- MultiSystem Manager ATM Support
- MultiSystem Manager NetWare support
- Automated Operations Network LAN Automation
- NetView Management Console Command Profile Editor GUI (the NMC CPE Batch Utility will remain)
- APPN Accounting Manager
- The TCP/IP discovery sample which previously ran on z/OS and OS/390 under Unix System Services (USS). This sample is available for download from the Unsupported Tools page of the NetView website. It is replaced in the product by the new TCP/IP discovery function on Linux on IBM eServer zSeries.
- Launch of Tivoli Inventory from the NMC topology console. This is available for download from the Unsupported Tools page of the NetView website.
- Command authority checking using the NetView scope-of-command function. Command authority checking using either a NetView command authorization table or an SAF product such as IBM SecureWay Security Server for z/OS and OS/390 continues to be supported.
- Span-of-control defined in members of the VTAMLST parameter dataset of Communication Server for OS/390 or z/OS Communication Server. Resources and NMC views subject to span-of-control authorization are now defined in a NetView span table in the NetView DSIPARM dataset.
- Support for the Katakana character set.
- The -jsnmp option of the NVSMP command.
- Java Application Server (JAS). The Java Application Server provided for starting, stopping, and checking the status of the following services in a Unix System Services (USS) environment:
- SNMPSRVC
- POLLSRVC
- MIBSRVC and LOADMIB
- on OS/2:
- This is the last release that will support the following functions:
- NMC Topology Console and NMC3270 on HP-UX
- The use of the OSNMP manager code provided by z/OS Communication Server for issuing SNMP commands. This is replaced by the new native NetView SNMP command support.
- The ability for customers to write NMC Server-based command exits. Existing NMC Server command exits that are provided by NetView will continue to be supported. The ability to write NMC Console-based command exits is not affected and will continue to be supported.
