What's new?

V2.7.0 - March 2023

Added

BMC AMI Cloud

Policy concurrent copy support

The Cloud Data Set backup and full dump policy types now allow setting the concurrent copy option. This new feature will allow the storage administrator to enable or disable the concurrent copy option at the policy level. For more information and known limitations, see creating a new policy.

Server API edit policy

The BMC AMI Cloud server API (M9SAPI) edit command now accepts requests for dataset archive and full volume dump policy types. This new capability provides more automated control over the BMC AMI Cloud policies using standard JCL and JSON.

Agent load-balancing performance

The BMC AMI Cloud management server agent load-balancing capabilities were enhanced to ensure improved distribution of work between the different agents within the same agent group. This improvement is expected to improve policies' total elapsed times and would also improve load balancing where one or more agents running on a weaker logical partition.

Resource search results page

The BMC AMI Cloud web UI resources page was enhanced to support larger amounts of managed resources. This improvement will reduce the amount of time the resources search results page loading time dramatically to allow users a better experience and usability.

Podman support

The BMC AMI Cloud server can now be deployed on the podman container platform. This improvement provides the administrators with the flexibility of choosing the container platform they are required to use.

BMC AMI Cloud Data

Controlling cloud dataset VDEV address space

The BMC AMI Cloud VDEV address space now accepts a new MODIFY parameter that allows disabling its functionality which will allow the shutdown of BMC AMI Cloud VDEV. This new feature will allow the storage administrator to disable the BMC AMI Cloud VDEV functionality in cases normal shutdown is rejected.

Cloud data set resource information

BMC AMI Cloud Data will now present the original label creation date for cloud data sets resource types.

CLI DELBACK improvement

The BMC AMI Cloud command line interface (CLI) DELBACK now allows the deletion of policy-originated backup versions. This new capability allows CLI users with proper permission to remove expired backup versions directly from z/OS.

Fixed

  • Fixed a data set backup issue when running the policy by volume or storage group where the selected data set was cataloged using system symbols. This caused the backup to end with an error thus not creating a backup version.
  • Fixed the wrong volume name presented when backing up data sets by pattern which were cataloged with system symbols. This caused both the UI and CLI to present the system symbol instead of the actual volume name the data set resides on.
  • Fixed a policy finalization issue where the policy takes an extensive amount of time to remove expired versions of VSAM data sets. This was caused by a missing index within the BMC AMI Cloud database.

Other improvements

  • Improved restore and recall operation zIIP consumption, where the backup and archive versions were created using gzip or lz4 compression methods.

The BMC AMI Cloud agent's parameter volume Backup_dfdss_warn_to_ok_msg_codes default value no longer contains ADR735W message. This may cause full volume dump backup run to end in a warning status in case concurrent copy is not available. For more information, see Updating-the-BMC-AMI-Cloud-agent-configuration-files.

 

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