New release enhancements

Release

Date

Enhancement

V2.0.0.0474      

February 29, 2016   

• Full support for passing all known IMS log types, including Fast Path, to BMC AMI Defender for z/OS.
• Improved online and batch run statistics
• Improved log type descriptions

V2.0.0.0652

April 1,2016

• Ability to REFRESH the initialization Parms in IMS Online
• Ability to display Statistics in IMS Online

V2.1.0.2093

October 10, 2016

• Support for MATCH / FILTER of log records
• Support to pass records to a Database Access Monitor (DAM)
• Support for passing records to multiple DEFENDERs
• Summary statistics for the Defender instances.
• Tracing support to output the entire Logrec passed to the ZDefender to a separate log file

V2.1.0.2258

April 8, 2017

• Support for named ZDEFENDERs
• Copy CZAPARMS to zDefender

V2.7.3.2803

July 12, 2017

• Visualizer support for Log Type 01, 03, 10, 16, and 24
• ZDefender now renamed Defender

V2.9.01.3280

Feb 20, 2019

• AMI Command Center support for Log Type 22 – Type 2 Commands
• AMI Command Center support for Log Type 50 – Database Update
• Support for 64 bit Buffer pools containing Log records
• All IMS log types in AMI Command Center start with the IMS subsys ID
• All console output for Log types includes the Defenders they will send their data to.
• All console output from Defender contains the IMS subsys ID

• Positioning changes for future installments
• Sample install JCL updates

• Removal of IMS user exits and exit setup
• Capability of sending selected records to AMI Defender for Z/OS system and AMI Command Center
• Improved performance when numerous small records are processed
• Product authorization with standard BMC product activation password
• Miscellaneous fixes and enhancements to include more log record types and fields

• Changes to ensure that all the checkpoint records are sent to the BMC AMI Defender for IMS server
• Resolution of various issues with the BMC AMI Defender for IMS API
• Change of the BMC AMI Defender for IMS server's default buffer value to 4096
• Addition of the BMC AMI Defender for IMS product to the MainView IMS IPRDDTL view
• Correction to the Sample JCL (AFICNTL) DD's for AFI#BATC and AFI#BJCL
• Updates to the ISPF panels with respect to the logo and trademark

• Added new IMS F8 log record type for BMC AMI Defender Database Change Capture
• Added a new member DBFILTER in the Sample JCL AFISAMP for setting the IMS database filter criteria for the IMS F8 log records
• Added a new user exit to allow extraction of IMS or API filtered log records for user processing
• Added AMI Command Center support for IMS Log Type F8 – BMC AMI Defender for IMS
• Made changes required to enable IMS extraction in the BMC Defender for z/OS (CZAGENT) version 6.0.02
• Added a new option to the ISPF Server options for sending records to the CZAGENT
• Updated the sample JCL AFISAMP to include new members CZAILOGD and CZAINTXI to add support for the Database Change Capture log record type
• Updated the sample JCL AFICNTL AFI#BJCL member to add new DDs for Database Change, Capture, and User Exit support

• Added support for the distribution of MV/IMS log record types x’FA’ and x’F9’ to the BMC AMI Defender for Z/OS Command Center.
• Added 11 new IMS-specific dashboards to support these new record types.
• Added support for a new ISPF command “Fields” that will provide an summary of the log record fields available for filtering and extraction for each log record type supported.
• Added filtering and extraction support for IMS log records x’41’, x’18’, x’5937’ and x’5950’.