What's New in Image FOCUS 5.1

Image FOCUS 5.1 contains a number of enhancements designed to improve its reliability, availability and serviceability. Existing users of prior releases are encouraged to upgrade to this release as soon as possible. Release 5.1 will serve as the technical code base for all future releases, enhancements and maintenance. Major product enhancements in 5.1 include the following:

Multi-level Indexed Report

As the number of Inspectors and Compliance/Audit Reports has increased, the original primary Report Index has become increasingly cluttered with entries. To address this, a new higher-level index is now presented as the default interface to Inspection results and reports. This new index is designed to show, at a glance, a summary of Inspection results by major Inspector and report category. Selecting a category from the index will display a sub-index of results related only to that category.

New Inspectors

Single ParmLib Member Inspector

The Single ParmLib Member Inspector is designed to support the inspection of any single ParmLib Member at any time. This enhancement saves considerable time, avoiding the need for a full Image Inspection when the focus of activity or concern is a single ParmLib Member.

Load Module Inspector

The Load Module Inspector is designed to extend the interactive and batch functions of the Image FOCUS Workbench and Production Views to include Load Modules in all categories. When implemented via the Image FOCUS API, these extensions will automatically bring a defined set of named Load Libraries and their modules under the direct surveillance of the Image FOCUS Monitor. 

The Load Module Inspector (ISNLOAD) is shipped with the Image SENTRY Application Set. Its analytic functions are designed to automatically identify areas of concern in the Load Module Inventory, where the specific instance of the Load Module Inventory is defined as the set of Load Modules contained in one or multiple Load Libraries. An unlimited number of Load Module Inventories can be defined to the Load Module Inspector.

New Inspection Functions

CSVLLAxx Inspection

The CSVLLA ParmLib Member is used to specify which libraries, in addition to the LNKLST concatenation, the library look aside (LLA) is to manage. This member, which is considered to be of high audit interest, has, up until this release, been outside the scope of the Image FOCUS Inspection Process. Because the suffix for CSVLLA is specified using START LLA=XX and not is not tied to IEASYSxx, users are encouraged to examine in detail the results of initial inspections.

Sysplex Inspection Enhancements

The Image FOCUS Sysplex Inspector has been enhanced to check for duplicate console names, as defined in the CONSOL ParmLib member, across the Sysplex.