Quarterly updates and other news about BMC AMI zAdviser.
What's New April 2023
We added the following updates for April 2023 release:
- BMC AMI Portfolio transformation
- Integration with BMC AMI Change Manager for Db2
- Data Privacy update
BMC AMI Portfolio transformation
As part of the BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence (AMI) transformation, all products in the BMC Compuware brand have been renamed to reflect the BMC AMI brand. Our BMC Compuware application development and DevOps solutions are now BMC AMI DevX, to reflect our commitment to the mainframe developer experience. We have updated all of the zAdviser data and many of our dashboards to reflect the new product names.
Integration with BMC AMI Change Manager for Db2
- BMC AMI zAdviser is now integrated with BMC AMI Change Manager for Db2.
- In the new Change Manager for Db2 dashboard is added, where you can:
- Get dashboard-based, management-level visibility into database change activity.
- Get usage metrics and KPIs that enable database administrators and managers to understand database activity and identify areas to improve efficiency.
Data Privacy update
zAdviser has updated its Data Privacy policy. To know more about the new policy, see
Support Privacy Policy
. As part of the new policy, BMC has set a retention policy of 2 years for all zAdviser data. On a monthly basis any data older then 2 years old will be removed from zAdviser.
What's New July 2021
We added the following updates for July 2021 release:
- BMC AMI Ops Automation
New Quality-focused Dashboard
BMC AMI Ops Automation
zAdviser records can now be created for customers that have at least one BMC Compuware tool licensed on the LPAR.
New Quality-focused Dashboard
A new dashboard around quality will highlight new KPIs Escaped Abend % and Time to Abend since Compile.
- Escaped Abend % is the ratio of Unique Abends that occur in Production compared to Unique Abends that occur in a DEV/TEST environment.
- Customers will supply the Production and Dev/Test LPARs to BMC Compuware to properly calculate the KPI.
- Time to Abend since compile is the number of days since the program was last compiled to the time it abended.
What's New April 2021
Welcome to the April 2021 release of zAdviser. As announced in the January 2021 Roadmap we focused on Machine Learning with the delivery of the next phase of Feature/Function Adoption around the Strobe, Abend-AID, CICS, and CES products.
We also worked on building out our zAdviser Online Documentation, with many new documentation pages and videos.
A new Specialty dashboard was added named Data Browse/Edit which is a File-AID Browse/Edit activity dashboard.
This quarter saw several new visualizations being added to existing Product Usage Dashboards as well as numerous new events being added by the product usage teams. Several fixes were also implemented. The latest enhancements include:
- Product Versions dashboard: updated to show administrators what version of Topaz specific users have installed.
- Topaz Workbench dashboard: update to allow users to see which versions of Topaz Wrokbench have been installed and adopted.
- Topaz for Total Test dashboard: to show the user which test execution method was used to launch a test.
- Xpediter dashboard: updated to include new and updated visualizations.
Specialty Dashboards
A new Specialty Dashboard was added named Data Browse/Edit showing File-AID Browse/Edit activity in both Topaz and the legacy File-AID products.
Product Versions Dashboard
Updates include new visualizations as well as:
- Showing Administrators what version of Topaz specific users have installed
- Logic for the Supported and Unsupported tables to better reflect if a product is in or out of support.
Topaz Workbench Dashboard
Topaz Workbench Version information: a new visualization allow users to see which versions of Topaz Workbench is installed and how many users have adopted that version.
Topaz for Total Test Dashboard
Test Execution Method: a new visualization allows users to see which test execution method was used to launch a test.
Feature/Function Dashboard
Added additional products to the data: Strobe, Abend-AID for CICS, and CES.
Xpediter Dashboard
New and updated visualization added.
What's New January 2021
Welcome to the January 2021 release of zAdviser. As announced in the October 2020 Roadmap we focused on Machine Learning with the first phase being Feature/Function Adoption around the Topaz, Xpediter, and File-AID Family of products.
We also worked on building out our zAdviser Online Documentation, with many new documentation pages and videos.
This quarter saw several new visualizations being added to existing Product Usage Dashboards as well as numerous new events being added by the product usage teams. Several fixes were also implemented. The latest enhancements include updates to:
- Feature/Function Adoption
- zAdviser Online Documentation
- Product Usage Dashboards
Feature/Function Adoption
zAdviser reports on user adoption of Compuware products. This helps you understand various aspects of product adoption such as:
- Who is or is not using particular products and product capabilities
- What products and product capabilities are not being used by your organization.
Development organizations in particular want to know if their teams are not using the full potential of Compuware products in order to understand the untapped potential of what’s available.
As a development manager, you want your teams to leverage the capabilities of available development tools so that they can perform development-related tasks more effectively.
Here are some important questions answered by this new dashboard:
- Are my teams leveraging the capabilities of Compuware products?
- Of the product capabilities that are underutilized, which are most important for my teams to learn to use?
- Which developers are using Compuware product capabilities the least?
- Are my teams getting better at using product capabilities over time?
zAdviser Online Documentation
Updates include new visualizations as well as:
The online documentation has taken a huge step forward this quarter with the addition on several new pages and videos.
New pages include:
Accessing a zAdviser Private Tenant. learn how to access a zAdviser Private Tenant. (Compuware can provide this to organizations who need to create or modify the read-only dashboards and visualizations that are available to all customers.)
Capturing SCM/ITSM Records. Describes capturing data from Source Control Management and IT Service Management (ITSM) tools needed to provide a full complement of KPIs.
How Topaz Captures usage data. Describes how Topaz Workbench captures and transfers data to zAdviser.
Private Tenant How to Videos. The Private Tenant page provides how-to’s for navigating and using your Private Tenant:
- Multifactor Authentication
- Dashboard Navigation
- Date and value filtering
- How to create and save dashboards
- How to create and save visualizations
- Recovery Code Usage
Product Usage Dashboards
New visualizations were created around the Abend-AID Viewer that shows how users are connecting to the Viewer from. Sources include 3270, Topaz, Web Browser, and CLIST. Also new is a table showing Viewer activity that describes exactly which reports and which report sections were viewed users.
Other New Product Events
New product events added this quarter include:
- Topaz GDG usage – Use of GDG groups and GDG data sets were added to the Allocate, Create Filter, Delete, and Host Explorer Search Type functions.
- Topaz Editor Find/Replace – describes the use of the Find/Replace function in the Topaz Editor
- File-AID for IMS – New events include FLEX dialog, Selection Criteria, XREF, and Application Relationships.
- Description data – Additional ISPW description data.
What's New October 2020
We added several new dashboards for October 2020:
- Benchmarking
- Developer Productivity
- Modern Online Documentation Site
Benchmarks Dashboard
Compuware zAdviser further aids in the use of KPIs to drive improvements in mainframe DevOps performance by both capturing developer behaviors and benchmarking those behaviors against metrics captured from across a broad range of other organizations engaged in mainframe agility initiatives.
Developer Productivity Dashboard
The zAdviser ISPW Development Productivity dashboard provides development teams insights for improving velocity and efficiency, including how much value is being produced and where bottlenecks exist.
Modern Online Documentation Site
zAdviser continues to roll-out its new a modern, online documentation experience, including navigation, search and embedded video and animated GIF media and much more.
Quarterly updates and other news about BMC AMI zAdviser.
What's New July 2021
We added the following updates for July 2021 release:
- BMC AMI Ops Automation
New Quality-focused Dashboard
BMC AMI Ops Automation
zAdviser records can now be created for customers that have at least one BMC Compuware tool licensed on the LPAR.
New Quality-focused Dashboard
A new dashboard around quality will highlight new KPIs Escaped Abend % and Time to Abend since Compile.
- Escaped Abend % is the ratio of Unique Abends that occur in Production compared to Unique Abends that occur in a DEV/TEST environment.
- Customers will supply the Production and Dev/Test LPARs to BMC Compuware to properly calculate the KPI.
- Time to Abend since compile is the number of days since the program was last compiled to the time it abended.
What's New April 2021
Welcome to the April 2021 release of zAdviser. As announced in the January 2021 Roadmap we focused on Machine Learning with the delivery of the next phase of Feature/Function Adoption around the Strobe, Abend-AID, CICS, and CES products.
We also worked on building out our zAdviser Online Documentation, with many new documentation pages and videos.
A new Specialty dashboard was added named Data Browse/Edit which is a File-AID Browse/Edit activity dashboard.
This quarter saw several new visualizations being added to existing Product Usage Dashboards as well as numerous new events being added by the product usage teams. Several fixes were also implemented. The latest enhancements include:
- Product Versions dashboard: updated to show administrators what version of Topaz specific users have installed.
- Topaz Workbench dashboard: update to allow users to see which versions of Topaz Wrokbench have been installed and adopted.
- Topaz for Total Test dashboard: to show the user which test execution method was used to launch a test.
- Xpediter dashboard: updated to include new and updated visualizations.
Specialty Dashboards
A new Specialty Dashboard was added named Data Browse/Edit showing File-AID Browse/Edit activity in both Topaz and the legacy File-AID products.
Product Versions Dashboard
Updates include new visualizations as well as:
- Showing Administrators what version of Topaz specific users have installed
- Logic for the Supported and Unsupported tables to better reflect if a product is in or out of support.
Topaz Workbench Dashboard
Topaz Workbench Version information: a new visualization allow users to see which versions of Topaz Workbench is installed and how many users have adopted that version.
Topaz for Total Test Dashboard
Test Execution Method: a new visualization allows users to see which test execution method was used to launch a test.
Feature/Function Dashboard
Added additional products to the data: Strobe, Abend-AID for CICS, and CES.
Xpediter Dashboard
New and updated visualization added.
What's New January 2021
Welcome to the January 2021 release of zAdviser. As announced in the October 2020 Roadmap we focused on Machine Learning with the first phase being Feature/Function Adoption around the Topaz, Xpediter, and File-AID Family of products.
We also worked on building out our zAdviser Online Documentation, with many new documentation pages and videos.
This quarter saw several new visualizations being added to existing Product Usage Dashboards as well as numerous new events being added by the product usage teams. Several fixes were also implemented. The latest enhancements include updates to:
- Feature/Function Adoption
- zAdviser Online Documentation
- Product Usage Dashboards
Feature/Function Adoption
zAdviser reports on user adoption of Compuware products. This helps you understand various aspects of product adoption such as:
- Who is or is not using particular products and product capabilities
- What products and product capabilities are not being used by your organization.
Development organizations in particular want to know if their teams are not using the full potential of Compuware products in order to understand the untapped potential of what’s available.
As a development manager, you want your teams to leverage the capabilities of available development tools so that they can perform development-related tasks more effectively.
Here are some important questions answered by this new dashboard:
- Are my teams leveraging the capabilities of Compuware products?
- Of the product capabilities that are underutilized, which are most important for my teams to learn to use?
- Which developers are using Compuware product capabilities the least?
- Are my teams getting better at using product capabilities over time?
zAdviser Online Documentation
Updates include new visualizations as well as:
The online documentation has taken a huge step forward this quarter with the addition on several new pages and videos.
New pages include:
Accessing a zAdviser Private Tenant. learn how to access a zAdviser Private Tenant. (Compuware can provide this to organizations who need to create or modify the read-only dashboards and visualizations that are available to all customers.)
Capturing SCM/ITSM Records. Describes capturing data from Source Control Management and IT Service Management (ITSM) tools needed to provide a full complement of KPIs.
How Topaz Captures usage data. Describes how Topaz Workbench captures and transfers data to zAdviser.
Private Tenant How to Videos. The Private Tenant page provides how-to’s for navigating and using your Private Tenant:
- Multifactor Authentication
- Dashboard Navigation
- Date and value filtering
- How to create and save dashboards
- How to create and save visualizations
- Recovery Code Usage
Product Usage Dashboards
New visualizations were created around the Abend-AID Viewer that shows how users are connecting to the Viewer from. Sources include 3270, Topaz, Web Browser, and CLIST. Also new is a table showing Viewer activity that describes exactly which reports and which report sections were viewed users.
Other New Product Events
New product events added this quarter include:
- Topaz GDG usage – Use of GDG groups and GDG data sets were added to the Allocate, Create Filter, Delete, and Host Explorer Search Type functions.
- Topaz Editor Find/Replace – describes the use of the Find/Replace function in the Topaz Editor
- File-AID for IMS – New events include FLEX dialog, Selection Criteria, XREF, and Application Relationships.
- Description data – Additional ISPW description data.
What's New October 2020
We added several new dashboards for October 2020:
- Benchmarking
- Developer Productivity
- Modern Online Documentation Site
Benchmarks Dashboard
Compuware zAdviser further aids in the use of KPIs to drive improvements in mainframe DevOps performance by both capturing developer behaviors and benchmarking those behaviors against metrics captured from across a broad range of other organizations engaged in mainframe agility initiatives.
Developer Productivity Dashboard
The zAdviser ISPW Development Productivity dashboard provides development teams insights for improving velocity and efficiency, including how much value is being produced and where bottlenecks exist.
Modern Online Documentation Site
zAdviser continues to roll-out its new a modern, online documentation experience, including navigation, search and embedded video and animated GIF media and much more.
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