Migrating from MainView AutoOPERATOR version 8.2 to version 8.3 of BMC AMI Ops Automation

BMC AMI Portfolio transformation

Many of our products are undergoing a BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence (AMI) Portfolio transformation. Starting with this release, the MainView AutoOPERATOR  product is known as the BMC AMI Ops Automation product. In the documentation, BMC AMI Ops Automation is also referred to as BMC AMI OpsA. 

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With the BMC AMI Portfolio transformation, many panels and views in the product have changes to reflect the new name of the product. If your automation employs any type of screen-scraping process and has dependencies on the exact position of characters, you might find that you have to modify the automation. For example, in the upper right corner of panels and view might now display BMC AMI OpsA instead of AutoOPERATOR. 

You should read this section in conjunction with the BMC AMI Ops Automation version 8.3 Release Notes: Release-notes-Version-8-3-00-of-BMC-AMI-Ops-Automation

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In addition to reviewing the BMC AMI OpsA version 8.3 Release Notes, you should also review Migrating-from-an-earlier-version-of-TOM.

You can run your current Rules, EXECs and solution automation without any manual modifications by copying the existing MainView AutoOPERATOR 8.2 Rules, EXECs, and solutions to the new BMC AMI OpsA 8.3 PAS. You can also copy your parameter members from the MainView AutoOPERATOR 8.2 BBI-SS PAS and use them for the BMC AMI OpsA 8.3 PAS.

However, MainView AutoOPERATOR Rules, EXECs, solutions, and BBPARM members might have been updated in the new version of BMC AMI OpsA. If you customized the MainView AutoOPERATOR Rules, EXECs, solutions, or BBPARM members in an earlier release, you should be prepared to migrate those changes to the new release.

You can do this process either by recustomizing the Rules, EXECs, solutions, and BBPARM members in the new release, or by reviewing the new members shipped by BMC AMI OpsA version 8.3 to see what changes are made in the new release that you can use in your user-modified version.

You can activate any new parameters or parameter values using one of the following options:

  • Edit the BBPARM member, change the value, and restart the BBI-SS PAS
  • Use the Dynamic Parameter Manager (DPM) application
  • Use the PASPARM view to update the member

Some compatibility limitations exist between BMC AMI OpsA 8.3  Rules and Rules from earlier releases. See What-has-changed-about-Rules-in-BMC-AMI-Ops-Automation-version-8-3 for information about enhancements that were made to Rules and the compatibility limitations and see What-has-changed-about-EXECs-in-BMC-AMI-Ops-Automation-version-8-3 for information about changes that were made to EXECs.

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