Easier deployment and management of IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation and your apps

Improvements to the MobileFirst Analytics Console

In V7.1.0, the user interface of the MobileFirst Analytics Console was improved to provide an enhanced user experience for viewing your analytics data. For more information, see Navigating the Analytics Console.

The improved MobileFirst Analytics Console also requires migration of your analytics data. For more information, see Migration to the V7.1.0 Analytics Console.

Improvements to the MobileFirst Operations Console

Changes to the interface controls and the behavior of MobileFirst Operations Console are intended to provide an enhanced user experience for deploying and managing your applications. See for example:

Easier upgrade process with the Server Configuration Tool

You can now use the Server Configuration Tool to upgrade a configuration of MobileFirst Server that was previously deployed with the Server Configuration Tool, from IBM® Worklight Foundation V6.2.0, or later.

For more information, see Upgrading with the Server Configuration Tool.

Asymmetric deployment in a WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment cell

You can deploy MobileFirst administration components and runtimes asymmetrically in different clusters of a WebSphere® Application Server Network Deployment cell. Therefore, the administration components are deployed in a different Java™ Virtual Machine (JVM) from the runtimes.

For more information, see WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment topologies.

Asymmetric deployment of MobileFirst administration components and runtimes is only supported with WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment.

Deploy MobileFirst Server to WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment on IBM PureApplication System

IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation System Patterns now include a new pattern that supports deployment to clusters of WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment servers. The MobileFirst Platform (WAS ND) template enables you to build your pattern in a simple way.

For more information about deploying a pattern based on this new template, see Deploying MobileFirst Server on clusters of WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment servers.

Deploy multiple MobileFirst Server runtimes on IBM PureApplication System

You can now deploy and configure the MobileFirst Server to install multiple runtimes on all the supported IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation System Patterns topologies. For more information, see Deploying several MobileFirst runtimes in a pattern in MobileFirst Server.

New documentation for deploying Application Center to the cloud

New documentation topics explain how to deploy Application Center to the cloud on the supported version of IBM PureApplication® System. For details, see the following topics:

Removal of the reports database from the installation process

The reports database is a deprecated feature, and is no longer part of the installation of the product by default. You should use IBM MobileFirst Platform Operational Analytics instead.

However, if you still need it, you can perform extra steps to install, configure, and upgrade the reports database. For more information, see Manually creating and configuring the reports database, and Upgrading the reports database.

Installation of IBM MobileFirst Platform Operational Analytics with Ant tasks

You can now use Ant tasks to install MobileFirst Operational Analytics and deploy it to your application server. For more information, see the following topics:

If you installed MobileFirst Operational Analytics with Ant tasks, you can also use Ant tasks to upgrade this component to a fix pack, or interim fix. For more information, see Applying a fix pack to IBM MobileFirst Platform Operational Analytics.

Support of the Addressable Device metric

In IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation V7.1.0, from the MobileFirst Operations Console, you can see the number of addressable devices in the current calendar month for applications that you can define for IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation Consumer, or for IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation Enterprise. The License Tracking report tracks devices that run native or hybrid applications on iOS, Android, or Windows.

For more information, see License tracking.

For more information about how to set the target category for your application, see the topics about application descriptor for hybrid applications, for Android, for iOS, for Windows 8, and for Windows Phone 8.

Multicultural support in MobileFirst Operations Console

Multicultural support has been added to MobileFirst Operations Console to make it easier to deploy and manage applications in languages other than English. MobileFirst Operations Console is translated into the following languages: Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Traditional Chinese. Dates and numbers are now formatted according to the appropriate cultural environment.

Installation of the Application Center with Ant tasks

In V7.1.0, you can use Ant tasks to install and upgrade Application Center.

For more information, see: