What's new in z/OS V1R11.0

Whats new in z/OS system level enhancements to consider

• IBM z/OS Management Facility

Whats new in BCP new functions to consider

• Allocation enhancements in z/OS V1R11
• New BCPii function
• BCPii function enhancements in z/OS V1R11
• AMODE64 Pause/Release services
• RMODE64 support for non-executable directed LOAD
• Choosing whether to run zAAP work on zIIP processors
• System REXX enhancements in V1R11
• RRS Global Panel Options
• Service aids enhancements in V1R11
• GRS: ENQ Contention Notification enhancements
• GRS: Exit enhancements
• GRS: Enhanced contention analysis for GRS latch
• GQSCAN and ISGQUERY enhancements
• IOS: Basic HyperSwap Support Enhancement
• Message Flood Automation enhancement: Removing MFA use of customer exits
• Program Management: New Binder IEWPARMS
• Predictive failure analysis
• SMF enhancements in V1R11
• System logger enhancements
• WLM: Enhanced routing recommendations
• WLM supports classification of Tivoli Director Server work
• WLM: Maximum number of instances per WLM server address space extended
• WLM supports more detailed reporting
• WLM: HiperDispatch mode improved for zIIPs
• WLM: REQLPDAT callable from unauthorized users
• XCF/XES enhancements in V1R11

Whats new in C/C++ without Debug Tool new functions to consider

• XL C/C++ compiler option MAKEDEP and the related options M and MF are introduced
• XL C/C++ compiler option RTCHECK is introduced
• XL C++ compiler suboption NAMEMANGLING(zOSV1R11_ANSI) and mangling-related compiler options and pragma directives are introduced
• XL C/C++ compiler option SHOWMACROS is introduced
• XL C/C++ compiler option SKIPSRC is introduced
• XL C/C++ compiler option REPORT is introduced to produce pseudo-C code
• XL C/C++ compiler option PREFETCH is introduced
• XL C/C++ compiler option INLINE might behave differently
• Support for Unicode literals and character types
• Support for GCC statement expression constructs in XL C compiler
• Support for zero-extent array members
• MVS version of dbgld command is introduced
• Full support for MVS linkage conventions is enabled
• Standard C++ Library enhancements

Whats new in Common Information Model (CIM) new functions to consider

• Tracing
• IPv6 support
• New property

Whats new in Communications Server new functions to consider

• Application integration, data consolidation, and standards
• Availability and business resilience
• Scalability, performance, constraint relief, and accelerators
• Security
• Simplification and consumability
• SNA and Enterprise Extender
• System management and monitoring
• Virtualization

Whats new in DFSMS new functions to consider

• Open/Close/End of Volume enhancements
• Data set separation by volume
• Enhanced striping volume selection
• EAV enhancements in z/OS V1R11
• Health Check to identify catalogs with IMBED and REPLICATE Attributes
• DFSMShsm enhancements
• DFSMS OAM Enhancements
• DFSMSrmm report generator enhancements
• DFSMSrmm EDGXHINT programming interface
• DFSMSrmm operational and ease of use enhancements

Whats new in Distributed File Service new functions to consider

• SMB: Disallowing export of zFS sysplex-aware file systems
• SMB: Supporting Windows Vista
• SMB: Enhancing SMB trace variables
• SMB: Supporting NT LAN Manager version 2 (NTLMv2)
• SMB: Running SMB under a unique nonzero UID
• zFS: New zFS checks from IBM Health Checker for z/OS
• zFS: Running sysplex-aware for read/write and read-only mounted file systems
• zFS: Excluding multi-file system aggregates in a sysplex shared file system environment
• zFS: Introducing namespace validation and correction

Whats new in HCD and HCM new functions to consider

• HCD: Profile Options dialog
• HCD: New profile option
• HCD: Changes in HCD reports
• HCD: Indicating channel path mode changes
• HCD: Specifying multi-user access mode when creating a work IODF from a production IODF
• HCD: Support of the WWPN Prediction Tool
• HCD: Miscellaneous dialog enhancements
• HCD: Hardware support
• HCM: New installation process
• HCM: New location of the HCM INI file
• HCM: Supporting IPv6
• HCM: Handling multi-user access enabled IODFs

Whats new in IBM Tivoli Directory Server for z/OS (IBM TDS for z/OS) new functions to consider

• Displaying and managing RACF classes and general resource profiles
• WLM support: Setting performance goals
• Advanced replication
• CDBM backend
• Control values in ds2ldif LDIF output file

Whats new in ICKDSF new functions to consider

• EAV support

Whats new in Infoprint Server new functions to consider

• Infoprint Port Monitor Version 3.0
• Infoprint Central performance improvement

Whats new in ISPF new functions to consider

• ISPF product changes
• ISPF Dialog Manager component changes
• ISPF PDF component changes
• ISPF SCLM component changes

Whats new in JES2 new functions to consider

• JES2 supports z11 mode
• JES2 supports data set creation on Start Spool
• JES2 enhances Spool Data Set Browse
• JES2 returns APPC transaction data for extended status
• JES2 supports APPC filters
• JES2 supports SSI 82

Whats new in JES3 new functions to consider

• JES3 returns APPC transaction data for extended status
• JES3 supports APPC filters
• JES3 adds an SVC dump exit
• JES3 supports SSI 70
• JES3 supports SSI 82
• JES3 enhances Spool Data Set Browse
• JES3 adds SYSLOG browse

Whats new in Language Environment new functions to consider

• Application enablement in z/OS V1R11
• AMODE 64 enhancements in z/OS V1R11
• Reliability, availability, and serviceability in z/OS V1R11
• Globalization
• File system remount
• Asynchronous I/O support
• I/O support for extended address volumes (EAVs)
• XPLINK

Whats new in NFS new functions to consider

• mvslogin and mvslogout requirement for RPCSEC_GSS requests in the NFS Server eliminated
• New z/OS NFS server site attributes added
• Console completion messages added
• Reasons code format generation enhanced
• NFS Client console message Japanese National Language Support
• Support to dynamically detect excessive delays from requests external to NFS
• NFS V4 file access delegation support
• NFS Server NFS V4 Mount with symlink restriction is eliminated
• Value range expanded for client BUFHIGH space attribute
• z/OS NFS Client implementation of security negotiation through SECINFO

Whats new in RMF new functions to consider

• New report on OPT parameter settings
• Replacement of the Postprocessor Plot report
• New real storage measurements
• Measuring WLM's promotion for workloads holding locks
• Enhanced group capacity reporting
• New Overview conditions for special purpose processors
• RMF Postprocessor reports in XML format
• Selective deactivation of Monitor III reports

Whats new in Run-Time Library Extensions new functions to consider

• Ddpi_Sourcefile APIs provide information about a source file

Whats new in SDSF new functions to consider

• Expanded support for the JES3 environment
• Enhanced support for the REXX programming language
• Elimination of the need for the HASPINDX data set with the SYSLOG
• Elimination of the need for the SDSF sysplex support with the SYSLOG

Whats new in Security Server new functions to consider

• EAV R2 toleration
• Extending support for multi-byte UTF8 characters that are outside the IBM-1047 code page
• Automatically assign unique IDs through UNIX applications
• Signing and verifying programs
• Define distributed identity mappings
• Recording logon statistics
• R_admin (IRRSEQ00) callable service support for extracting RACF general resource profiles
• R_admin (IRRSEQ00) callable service enhancement to the SETROPTS extract function
• A new REXX interface to extract RACF profile and SETROPTS information
• Providing profile name in authorization exits
• New ICSF segment on the RACF general resource profile

Whats new in TSO/E new functions to consider

• TSO/E EAV R2 support
• TSO/E LOGONHERE support for VTAM unconditional reconnect

Whats new in z/OS UNIX new functions to consider

• Dynamically replacing the sysplex root file system with an alternate sysplex root file system
• Editing ASCII data using ISPF Edit
• Improved performance for dbx symbolic discovery and queries
• Remounting file systems without changing the mount mode
• Support for ansynchronous I/O interface to the accept_and_recv (BPX1ANR) callable service
• Tracing z/OS UNIX system calls made by user processes
• Using automatically generated UIDs and GIDs instead of default OMVS segments