IBM Tivoli Netview for z/OS V5R2 (2005)
- Integration with Enterprise management products.
- OMEGAMON XE for Mainframe Networks V3.1 and Tivoli Enterprise Portal (TEP). Through a command user interface that integrates TCP/IP data from both NetView and OMEGAMON, NetView provides customers with a consolidated TCP/IP workbench, enabling management of TCP/IP availability and performance from a single user interface
- Service desk integration (IBM Tivoli Information Management and Peregrine ServiceCenter). Users can open incident records in the service desk products from the NetView Web application interface.
- Common Base Event support. NetView now supports the new, industry-standard Common Base Event (CBE) architecture. Support includes receiving, displaying, automating, and submitting them to the new Common Event Infrastructure (CEI) for availability to other products. NetView can also convert selected messages and alerts into Common Base Events for distribution over the CEI
- TCP/IP and SNMP management
- Sysplex Topology management.. NetView dynamically discovers and provides topology and status information on all the z/OS images in a sysplex, and all the TCP/IP stacks on each of those z/OS images.
- TCP/IP connection and IP packet trace management. Users can manage live and historical TCP/IP connections and view formatted, real-time IP packet traces. From the NetView Web application, users can also view correlated performance data provided by the IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for Mainframe Networks program.
- Intrusion detection services. Working in conjunction with the z/OS Communications Server's Intrusion Detection Service, you can define automated responses scans and attacks. Using notification and inform policies, you can send an e-mail to a security administrator, issue a message, generate an alert or Tivoli Enterprise Console event, issue commands, or generate a report in response to an intrusion.
- Support for IP address translation. For IP addresses that are translated by Comprehensive Network Address Translation (available with Tivoli NetView 7.1.1 or later) as packets move from one network to another, the NetView program will provide both the translated address and the original address.
- Layer 2 support. The MultiSystem Manager IP agent reports the layer 2 status supported by the IBM Tivoli NetView product.
- Support for IPv6 and SNMPv3. IPv6 address will be displayed in messages, views and other user interfaces. IPv6 addresses are accepted as input in ping, tracerte, and some other commands. You can use SNMPv3 authentication and encryption from the command line, REXX and command lists, with switches to set the authentication protocol, the authentication pass phrase, and the privacy pass phrase used with SNMPv3 messages.
- MultiSystem Manager IP agent enhancements. New traps provide support for the Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP).
- DVIPA support. AON is no longer required for DVIPA management. To enable DVIPA support, customize CNMSTYLE statements.
- NetView Web Application.
- Replacement of Jetty Web server. The embedded version of IBM WebSphere Application Server - Express is shipped as part of the NetView Web application and acts as your Web application server if you do not have WebSphere installed.
- Event viewing. You can use the NetView Web application to view events in the Common Event Infrastructure (CEI) database.
- Setting of user preferences. You can set or control individual user preferences for the NetView Web application.
- Controlling access to tasks. You can define a set of users that have access to specific NetView Web application tasks.
- Consistent user interface. The NetView Web application interface, including the MIB Browser and Real Time Poller, is more consistent with the standard Tivoli user interface.
- Portfolio layout. You can control the layout and hierarchy of the NetView Web application portfolio. You can also add, delete or rename tasks.
- Additional portfolio changes. Tasks for loading and unloading SNMP MIBs, starting the 3270 console, and launching procedures were added to the portfolio. History Log, Inform Actions, SNA Session Data, SNMP View, IP and TCP/IP commands, and TCP/IP Trace were removed from the portfolio.
- Automation enhancements
- Message Revision Table. You can use the message revision table (MRT) to intercept original z/OS-based messages (not copies) and suppress them, make changes to attributes (for example, color, text, route codes, and descriptor codes), or automate the messages.
- Event correlation. You can route messages and MSUs to an event correlation engine to correlate multiple events over time, based on duplicates, thresholds, presence or absence of specific events, and other factors.
- NetView Management Console (NMC)
- Automatically start NETCONV sessions. You can pre-define and then during NetView initialization automatically start NETCONV sessions between the host NetView program and the server.
- Save the topology console log to the console. Save the NetView management console log to a file on the NMC server or console.
- Customize labels. You can customize labels for the Data1, Data2, and Data3 fields for RODM resources on the NetView Management Console. You can also customize labels in the NetView Management Console navigation tree.
- Sysplex IP stack management. You can use the NetView Management Console to manage sysplex TCP/IP stack information.
- Security enhancements
- Security for TCP/IP communication. Support is added for the Application-Transparent Transport Layer (AT-TLS) service introduced with the z/OS 1.7 Communications Server. This provides encryption for communication between the NetView host and the NetView management console server and the MSM IP agent, as an alternative to the encryption function provided by the NetView program. Consider changing to the new encryption support.
- Installation and packaging changes
- Migration to CNMSTYLE. You can use sample CNMSJMIG to migrate initialization member statements from pre-stylesheet releases (including CNME1034 and some DSIPARM members) to statements required for CNMSTYLE processing. New statements are placed in CNMSTUSR. You can also use sample CNMSJMIG to migrate DSICMD statements to the new CNMCMD format. New statements are placed in CNMCMDU.
- Customize CNMSTYLE. The way to customize CNMSTYLE has changed. Make all global (enterprise) stylesheet changes in %INCLUDE member CNMSTUSR. Make system-specific changes in %INCLUDE member CxxSTGEN.
- Create a CNMSTYLE report. You can use the CNMSTYLE report generator to analyze CNMSTYLE and its included members. You can use the report that is created to:
- List the %INCLUDE statements.
- Analyze multiple occurrences of statements within CNMSTYLE and its included members.
- List the CNMSTYLE towers that are enabled.
- Analyze initialization statements for a particular function.
- Automatically start NETCONV sessions. You can use the function.autotask.NetConv and TAMEL.CONV statements in CNMSTYLE to automatically start NETCONV sessions.
- Migrate to new command definition statements (CNMDDEF). CNMCMD replaces DSICMD. Add any installation-defined commands to CNMCMDU. You can use sample CNMJMIG to migrate member DSICMD.
- Set domain ID in IEASYMxx. If you use VTAM APPL sample A01APPLS (CNMS0013), you can set the domain ID using a system variable (&CNMDOMN) in SYS1.PARMLIB member IEASYMxx.
- Specify volume serial (VOLSER) information for VSAM clusters. You can use job CNMSJ000 to specify the VOLSER information used with creating VSAM clusters during installation.
- New default value for MSGIFAC. The default value for MSGIFAC has been changed to SSIEXT in CNMSTYLE and CNMPSSI. If a future release of z/OS includes the Stage 2 console restructuring, the QUESSI, QSSIAT, and USESSI values will not be supported.
- ROUTECDE statement. A new ROUTECDE statement has been added to CNMSTYLE that defines the routing default for all NetView-generated WTOs and WTORs and the WTO and WTOR commands. Any commands issued before this parameter is processed are issued with a default ROUTECDE value of 1. The ROUTECDE statement has been added to CNMSTYLE and the following NetView procedures:
- CNMPSSI (CNMSJ010)
- CNMGMFHS (CNMSJH10)
- EKGLLOAD
- EKGLOADP
- EKGXRODM
- IHSAEVNT
- Usability enhancements
- Convert a command to uppercase. You can use the FOLDUP parameter on the CNMDDEF statement or the ADDCMD command to convert a command to uppercase before sending it to the command processor. FOLDUP=Y takes precedence over the OVERRIDE NETVASIS=YES specification.
- Specify an exception list. You can specify an exception list when purging items from the NLDM database. Resources included in the exception list will not be purged. This applies to the DBAUTO, DBINIT, DBMAINT, NLDM PURGE, and PURGEDB commands.
- You can rename NetView-supplied automatic operators through a change in CNMSTYLE
- Limit the output of CNMPRT and DSIPRT. New parameters allow users to limit the output of NCMPRT (CNMSJM04) and DSIPRT (CNMS6214) by specifying a starting and ending data and time, or a date and time range.
- Increase the number of objects supported by RODM. Until now, RODM supports approximately 524000 objects. This limit is increased to approximately 2 million objects, depending on the compositions of the objects and other information in the RODM cache. The RODM API does not change.
- Miscellaneous
- Explicit and implicit routing of VTAM commands. The following methods for explicit and implicit routing of VTAM commands are no longer supported:
- VTAM commands entered from the operator console.
- VTAM commands prefixed with MVS entered from the operator console.
- VTAM command issued with the PIPE VTAM stage.
- Use the RMTCMD or ROUTE command to send VTAM commands to another NetView. The NPDA DDOMAIN command no longer supports a resource name.
- Increased HLL performance. Performance is improved for high-level language (HLL) programs that use preinitialized PL/I and C environments. The primary stack and heap extent sizes increased to 128K and the secondary stack and heap extent sizes increased to 128K.
- Enhanced serviceability. The Interactive Program Control System (IPCS) verb exit CNMPICS is enhanced to run in multiple address spaces.
- Support for numeric console IDS has been removed for the AUTOTASK command’s CONSOLE keyword. The SYSCONID, CURCONID, and AUTCONID functions in REXX and the NetView CLIST language now return console names in all cases.
- Explicit and implicit routing of VTAM commands. The following methods for explicit and implicit routing of VTAM commands are no longer supported:
- Withdrawn functions. As previously announced, the following functions are withdrawn beginning with IBM Tivoli NetView for z/OS V5R2, and are no longer available:
- NMC Topology Console and NMC3270 on HP-UX and AIX
- 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 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.)
- Planned withdrawal: IBM Tivoli NetView for z/OS V5R2 is the last release that will support the following functions:
- MultiSystem Manager Topology Feature for NetFinity
- 4700 Support Facility
- LPDA-1, LPDA-2 modem support
- Automated Operations Network SNA Automation SNBU support
