MainView for DB2 (Version 11.2.00)

Version Support Status : LIMITED SUPPORT
Full Support End Date : 31-Mar-2022
End Of Support Date :

View the PAC (Product Availability and Compatibility) matrix for the English user interface of version 11.2.00
Customer Advisories
Date Tracking Numbers Description Available Formats
Flash
08-Oct-2021 UPDATED (ID 1342) BMC AMI Ops Infrastructure: An unusual error causes the BsamFile to enter a retry loop that might cause messages to flood the SYSLOG and exhaust the address space storage PDF
01-Oct-2021 (ID 1441) BMC AMI Ops Infrastructure: Applying PTF BQY2869 might cause a storage leak and failure of every PAS containing history dataset HTM
08-Jul-2021 (ID 1331) BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS, BMC AMI Ops Monitor for Db2, BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS Offline, and BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS Online: A storage overlay might occur in BMC AMI Ops Monitor BBI-SS PAS PDF
29-Jun-2021 (ID 1322) BMC AMI Ops Infrastructure: The MVE Host Server might exceed its connection limits and require a restart PDF
12-Feb-2021 (ID 1153) CRA: When installing the Common REST API the root directory is overwritten PDF
18-Dec-2020 (ID 1115) MainView Infrastructure: A CAS might run out of storage cells for memory-to-memory transfers when you use VTAM for CAS-to-CAS communications PDF
23-Nov-2020 (ID 1095) BMC AMI Apptune for Db2: With PTF BQU3029 or BQU3037 applied, commands issued by the DBC might abend in Db2 command processing PDF
05-Oct-2020 (ID 1065) User Interface Middleware: A loop or abend might occur in the User Interface Middleware (UIM) Server PDF
02-Oct-2020 (ID 1063) MainView Infrastructure: A loop might occur in the MainView Explorer host server due to unexpected errors PDF
02-Oct-2020 (ID 1064) MainView Infrastructure: A loop or abend might occur in the MainView Explorer host server when opening or closing a window PDF
01-Sep-2020 UPDATED (ID 1024) System and SQL Performance for Db2: Db2 might exhaust available above-the-bar common storage and fail PDF
26-Jun-2020 (ID 982) System and SQL Performance for Db2: Db2 might exhaust available above-the-bar common storage and fail PDF
24-Jun-2020 (ID 981) Maintenance: A RECEIVE ORDER job failure connecting to the BMC server occurs PDF
21-May-2020 UPDATED (ID 958) MainView Infrastructure: Applying PTF BQY2394 or BQY2393 to MainView Infrastructure might cause a false alarm message with an incorrect severity level PDF
14-May-2020 (ID 949) MainView Infrastructure: Applying PTF BQY2394 or BQY2393 to MainView Infrastructure might cause a false alarm message with an incorrect severity level PDF
17-Apr-2020 (ID 939) MainView Explorer: Applying BQY2284 for the MainView Explorer host server might create a severe error PDF
05-Mar-2020 (ID 910) Next Generation Logger: Canceling the DBC address space while an NGL client is still running results in a loop PDF
10-Oct-2019 (ID 781) MainView Infrastructure: An integrity issue affects all MainView products when you invoke them using the MainView CLIST PDF
07-Oct-2019 UPDATED (ID 761) MainView Logger: NGL might cause serious problems in the DBC address space, including loops and abends PDF
04-Oct-2019 (ID 773) MainView products using a LOAD library in their address spaces might experience errors PDF
11-Jul-2019 (ID 718) MainView Logger: NGL might cause serious problems in the DBC address space, including loops and abends PDF
18-Apr-2019 UPDATED (ID 661) All products that run in the DBC component: An abend in BBM0ZLCS or OSZXCNSL might cause a storage overlay problem in the private area of the DBC address space PDF
11-Apr-2019 (ID 653) All MainView products: An abend in BBM0ZLCS or OSZXCNSL might cause a storage overlay problem in the private area of the DBC address space PDF
11-Jan-2019 MainView Infrastructure: UPDATED MainView Alternate Access does not operate if IBM PTF UA98016 or UA98017 is applied PDF
20-Dec-2018 MainView Infrastructure: MainView Alternate Access does not operate if IBM PTF UA98016 or UA98017 is applied PDF
29-Sep-2017 QM002344574 An S0C4 abend might occur in the DBC address space after you apply PTF BQU0425 PDF
21-Sep-2016 SLN000015205188 MainView for DB2 and System Performance for DB2: The BBI-SS PAS might become nonfunctional after an S0C4 abend that occurs when you start a trace in full-screen mode in MainView for DB2 PDF
14-Jun-2016 BMC Runtime Component System: Applying PTF BP00336 or BP00337 when using CA ACF2 Release 15, or using CA ACF2 Version 16 without applying the PTFs, will cause a security failure to occur in MainView products PDF
14-Apr-2016 MainView Infrastructure: An expired certificate causes Java Security to block access to MainView Explorer PDF
02-Mar-2016 QM001905449 When NGL buffers are full, the Data Collector's pause and retry mechanism might lead to exhaustion of SQA storage, requiring an IPL to clear PDF
29-Jan-2016 MainView Infrastructure: Applying PTF BQY0926 causes MVE to use incorrect credentials to access views and data PDF
19-Nov-2015 QM001890161 MainView for DB2 and System Performance for DB2: Users might experience a loop that causes very high CPU utilization when using the Active Thread applications PDF
Technical Bulletin
13-Oct-2021 (ID 1446) Maintenance: Reminder of upcoming changes to the maintenance delivery services for BMC AMI products HTM
01-Oct-2021 (ID 1358) Maintenance: RSL2110 is available HTM
01-Oct-2021 (ID 1420) Technical bulletin: SPE2110 enhancements to version 2.0 of the BMC Common REST API are available HTM
01-Oct-2021 UPDATED (ID 1344) BMC AMI Ops Infrastructure: Applying PTF BQY2869 results in a storage leak that might cause S878 abend PDF
01-Oct-2021 UPDATED (ID 1421) BMC AMI Ops Infrastructure: SPE2110 enhancements to version 7.0.00 are available HTM
30-Sep-2021 (ID 1401) All BMC Mainframe customers: Day-one support is now available for IBM z/OS V2.5 HTM
09-Aug-2021 (ID 1355) Technical bulletin: Product Alert emails will soon link to a notice webpage instead of to a PDF PDF
30-Jul-2021 (ID 1341) Installation and maintenance: We are discontinuing production of the cumulative RSL maintenance by December 31, 2021 PDF
01-Jul-2021 (ID 1226) Products that run in a BBI-SS PAS: July 2021 enhancement for BMC AMI Ops products that run in a BBI-SS PAS is now available PDF
01-Jul-2021 (ID 1247) Maintenance: RSL2107 and RSL2107C are available PDF
01-Jul-2021 (ID 1264) Technical bulletin: SPE2107 enhancements to version 2.0 of BMC Common REST API are available PDF
01-Jul-2021 (ID 1305) BMC AMI Ops Infrastructure: July 2021 enhancements for version 7.0.00 of BMC AMI Ops Infrastructure are available PDF
07-Jun-2021 (ID 1278) Installation and maintenance: New password for the ESD FTP sites takes effect at 00:00 UTC on July 1, 2021 PDF
04-Jun-2021 (ID 1256) Maintenance: We are announcing the end of support for eFix PTF Distribution Services (eFix) on December 31, 2021 PDF
29-Apr-2021 (ID 1240) New EV SSL certificate for filedownload.bmc.com FTPS services takes effect at 00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) on May 22, 2021 PDF
01-Apr-2021 (ID 1134) BMC AMI Ops Infrastructure: SPE2104 enhancements to version 7.0.00 of BMC AMI Ops Infrastructure are available PDF
01-Apr-2021 (ID 1136) BMC Common REST API: SPE2104 enhancements to version 2.0 of BMC Common REST API are available PDF
01-Apr-2021 (ID 1145) Maintenance: RSL2104 is available PDF
03-Mar-2021 (ID 1172) All BMC mainframe customers: New SHA-2 Global Root Certificate to access mft.bmc.com PDF
25-Jan-2021 (ID 1023) All BMC Mainframe customers: BMC is announcing the transformation of the BMC Mainframe product lines to BMC AMI PDF
21-Jan-2021 (ID 1087) Maintenance: RSL2101 and RSL2101C are available PDF
18-Nov-2020 (ID 1091) Maintenance: We are withdrawing BMC Internet Service Retrieval (BMC ISR) on December 31, 2020 PDF
11-Nov-2020 (ID 1086) MainView Infrastructure: We are deprecating the MainView Threshold Advisor application PDF
04-Nov-2020 (ID 1083) Installation and maintenance: An outage is scheduled for filedownload.bmc.com services, BMC ISR, SMP/E RECEIVE ORDER, and web-based RECEIVE ORDER PDF
15-Oct-2020 (ID 1002) Maintenance: RSL2010 is available PDF
15-Oct-2020 (ID 1061) Maintenance: Announcing a web-based maintenance request service for RECEIVE ORDER PDF
15-Sep-2020 (ID 741) All BMC mainframe products and solutions: BMC is announcing an enhancement to how we notify you about notice updates PDF
20-Aug-2020 (ID 1011) Technical bulletin: Submit ideas for enhancements via BMC Communities PDF
20-Aug-2020 (ID 741) Technical bulletin: BMC is announcing an enhancement to how we notify you about notice updates PDF
31-Jul-2020 (ID 1005) Maintenance: An outage is scheduled for RECEIVE ORDER and BMC ISR PDF
16-Jul-2020 (ID 925) MainView Infrastructure: You can now use the SETPORT view to manage TCP/IP static port definitions PDF
16-Jul-2020 (ID 942) Maintenance: RSL2007 and RSL2007C are available PDF
16-Jul-2020 (ID 993) MainView Explorer: Announcing a change to how MainView Explorer is launched PDF
02-Jul-2020 (ID 957) Technical bulletin: Common REST API basic Tomcat authentication is no longer required PDF
17-Jun-2020 (ID 976) MainView Explorer might be blocked by Java security PDF
11-Jun-2020 (ID 953) Installation and maintenance: New passwords for the ESD FTP and BMC ISR FTP sites take effect at 00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) on July 16, 2020 PDF
04-Jun-2020 (ID 876) Common REST API: May 2020 updates are available PDF
27-May-2020 (ID 952) New EV SSL certificate for filedownload.bmc.com FTPS services takes effect at 00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) on June 20, 2020 PDF
21-May-2020 (ID 922) Maintenance: Change in the PTF publication process PDF
16-Apr-2020 (ID 930) Maintenance: Change in GA dates for quarterly RSLs PDF
02-Apr-2020 (ID 879) Maintenance: RSL2004 is available PDF
08-Jan-2020 UPDATED (ID 862) Customer Support: BMC is announcing a new method for sending files to Customer Support PDF
03-Jan-2020 (ID 834) Maintenance: RSL2001 and RSL2001C are available PDF
18-Dec-2019 (ID 856) Installation: Failure to apply the November update for the Installation System results in incorrect installation jobs PDF
17-Dec-2019 (ID 786) Maintenance: BMC now supports IBM SMP/E RECEIVE ORDER for BMC mainframe products PDF
06-Nov-2019 (ID 801) An outage is scheduled for filedownload.bmc.com services, BMC ISR, and EPD PDF
17-Oct-2019 (ID 750) MainView Alternate Access now includes a TIMEOUT parameter PDF
10-Oct-2019 (ID 782) MainView Infrastructure: A new REST API allows users to access MainView data from outside of MainView. This enables using MainView dat in other tools for reporting and analysis. PDF
03-Oct-2019 (ID 772) RSL1910 is available PDF
19-Sep-2019 (ID 724) MainView Infrastructure: MainView Alarm Management deployment enhancements are now available PDF
05-Sep-2019 (ID 737) MainView Explorer now includes a TIMEOUT parameter PDF
04-Sep-2019 (ID 736) Installation and maintenance: Scheduled outage for filedownload.bmc.com services and BMC ISR, server changes, and new EV SSL certificate PDF
30-Aug-2019 (ID 752) Customer Support: BMC is announcing a new method for sending information to Customer Support PDF
08-Aug-2019 (ID 692) A utility to extract records for offloaded BBI-SS PAS journal data sets to CSV formatted data sets is available PDF
07-Aug-2019 (ID 735) All supported BMC mainframe products: You can now use your favorite search engine to find information in BMC product documentation PDF
03-Jul-2019 (ID 710) Maintenance: RSL1907 and RSL1907C are available PDF
05-Jun-2019 (ID 681) New passwords for the ESD FTP and BMC ISR FTP sites take effect at 00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) on July 3, 2019 PDF
07-May-2019 (ID 666) MainView Infrastructure: An S0C4 abend may occur in MainView identified as ????????(????????+********) PDF
01-May-2019 UPDATED (ID 664) MainView Infrastructure: Applying PTF BQY1876, BQY1877, or BQY1878 can delay PAS initialization PDF
15-Apr-2019 (ID 590) MainView Infrastructure: Issuing IBM MVS MODIFY commands to obtain version information might cause a security issue PDF
03-Apr-2019 (ID 642) Maintenance — RSL1904 is available PDF
27-Mar-2019 Applying PTF BQY1876, BQY1877, or BQY1878 can delay PAS initialization PDF
17-Jan-2019 MainView Infrastructure now supports TCP/IP encryption PDF
03-Jan-2019 RSL1901 and RSL1901C are available PDF
24-Dec-2018 BMC ISR extract job $E05XTRT and retrieve job $J05RETV are missing the COPYSTEP and SFTP steps PDF
04-Oct-2018 Maintenance: RSL1810 is available PDF
13-Sep-2018 MainView Infrastructure: MainView Explorer can now be launched from a stand-alone package PDF
03-Jul-2018 Maintenance: RSL1807 and RSL1807C are available PDF
21-Jun-2018 MainView Infrastructure: After applying PTF BQY1469 or BQY1470, MainView Logger logs all WTOs, regardless of the WTOLOG or LOGWTO parameter setting PDF
30-May-2018 Announcing support for FIXCAT categories for Enhanced HOLDDATA PDF
05-Apr-2018 Maintenance: RSL1804 is available PDF
02-Feb-2018 Customer Support: Changes for sending files to Customer Support through ftp.bmc.com PDF
03-Jan-2018 Maintenance: RSL1801 and RSL1801C are available PDF
14-Dec-2017 MainView Explorer hangs when MVI host server restarted with SSL=N PDF
14-Dec-2017 MainView Infrastructure December 2017 enhancements for version 6.2 are available PDF
16-Nov-2017 BMC is announcing licensing permission for running BMC products and solutions for IBM z/OS in the IBM zD&T and zPDT environments but will not extend BMC Customer Support services to the virtual environments PDF
10-Nov-2017 MainView for DB2, MainView for IMS Offline, MainView for IMS Online, and MainView for CICS: A private storage overlay might occur when you start an application trace with over 50 targets in a BBI-SS PAS PDF
05-Oct-2017 QM002280140 MainView Infrastructure now reduces Data Dictionary overhead in metrics-related views PDF
02-Oct-2017 Maintenance: RSL1710 is available PDF
29-Sep-2017 MainView products now support running on Version 2.3 of the IBM z/OS system PDF
28-Sep-2017 MainView Infrastructure: MainView Explorer can now graph to a secondary Y-axis scale and integrate with IBM z/OSMF PDF
06-Jul-2017 Maintenance: RSL1707 and RSL1707C are available PDF
22-Jun-2017 MainView for DB2: MainView for DB2 now supports MainView Data Dictionary views, and IBM CICS TS 5.4 PDF
14-Jun-2017 New passwords for the ESD FTP and BMC ISR FTP sites take effect at 00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) on July 6, 2017 PDF
10-May-2017 UIM: Announcing support for versions 1.1 and 1.2 of TLS PDF
27-Apr-2017 Quicker and easier access to BMC mainframe product documentation is now available PDF
04-Apr-2017 Maintenance: RSL1704 is available PDF
10-Feb-2017 RTCS: The OSZHTML hypertext document library in the RTCS subsystem start-up procedure is no longer required PDF
01-Feb-2017 MainView Infrastructure: MVALARM 2.1 will be no longer available with MainView Infrastructure 6.2 PDF
04-Jan-2017 Maintenance: RSL1701 and RSL1701C are available PDF
09-Dec-2016 UIM: BMC is providing instructions for creating SSL/TLS certificates for use with UIM PDF
03-Oct-2016 Maintenance: RSL1610 is available PDF
18-Aug-2016 BMC ISR: BMC has scheduled an outage for BMC Internet Service Retrieval (BMC ISR) PDF
06-Jul-2016 Installation System: RSL1607 and RSL1607C are available PDF
16-Jun-2016 DBC: An improved locking mechanism enables DBC to better support the multi-use runtime operation PDF
16-Jun-2016 Installation System: New passwords for the ESD and BMC ISR FTP sites take effect at 00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) on July 6, 2016 PDF
01-May-2016 MainView Infrastructure: When browsers phase out support for NPAPI plugins, MainView Explorer will not run as an applet in those browsers PDF
18-Mar-2016 Installation System: Announcing release, maintenance, and service levels PDF
18-Mar-2016 RSL: Introducing Recommended Service Level (RSL) maintenance PDF
18-Feb-2016 QM001920026 A system S0C4 abend in module IODXGID might prevent the Data Collector from executing if you have applied BPU8492 PDF
12-Jan-2016 QM001889611 MainView for DB2: Incorrect data on PAGESET views and incorrect PAGESET history data might occur when IBM z/OS Version 2.2 is running on your system PDF
04-Dec-2015 PUT1502B is available PDF
03-Dec-2015 QM001890605 MainView for DB2 and BMC System Performance for DB2: S378-1C abends might occur if PTF BPD4348 (for version 11.1) or PTFs BPD4350 and BPD4336 (11.2) are applied PDF
16-Oct-2015 MainView for DB2: New security resource definitions and external security resource definitions are available for MainView for DB2 views PDF
08-Oct-2015 QM001882590 The process that archives NGL log files might run for an excessively long time on a CPU-constrained LPAR PDF
01-Oct-2015 MainView Infrastructure: Enhancements to MainView Infrastructure to support UIM/USC usage and HTTPS PDF
27-Aug-2015 QM001880813 MainView for DB2 and System Performance for DB2: High CPU usage in the MainView for DB2 BBI-SS PAS might occur when accessing dynamic SQL cache views PDF
22-Jul-2015 Installation System: $177ACCF job fails PDF
29-Jun-2015 BMC Runtime Component System: An enhancement adds new commands to simplify operational shutdown PDF
10-Jun-2015 Updated version with minor corrections. MainView for CICS, MainView for DB2, and MainView for IMS Online: BMC has enhanced common OLTP product functionality PDF
01-Jun-2015 Installation System: Enable configuration and running of products from SMP/E target libraries PDF
05-Apr-2015 Installation System: New passwords for the ESD and BMC ISR FTP sites take effect at 00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) on May 5, 2015 PDF
Release Notes
01-Apr-2021 Installation System: Announces changes and new features in version 3.16.00 PDF
21-Jan-2021 BMC AMI Ops Infrastructure: Announces changes and new features in version 7.0.00 PDF
21-Jan-2021 Installation System: Announces changes and new features in version 3.15.00 PDF
15-Oct-2020 Installation System: Announces changes and new features in version 3.14.00 PDF
16-Jul-2020 Installation System: Announces changes and new features in version 3.13.00 PDF
30-Apr-2020 Installation System: Announces changes and new features in version 3.12.00 PDF
13-Jun-2019 Installation System: Announces changes and new features in version 3.11.00 PDF
13-Dec-2018 Announces changes and new features in version 11.1.00 of DBC and LGC and version 10.4.00 of NGL PDF
13-Dec-2018 Installation System: Announces changes and new features in version 3.9.00 PDF
21-Jun-2018 MainView Infrastructure: Describes what is new and changed in MainView Infrastructure version 6.3.00 PDF
03-May-2018 Installation System: Announces changes and new features in version 3.6.00 PDF
14-Dec-2017 Installation System: Announces changes and new features in version 3.5.00 PDF
22-Jun-2017 Installation System: Announces changes and new features in version 3.3.00 PDF
23-Mar-2017 MainView Infrastructure: Describes what is new and changed in MainView Infrastructure version 6.2.00 PDF
22-Mar-2017 Installation System: Announces changes and new features in version 3.2.00 PDF
08-Dec-2016 Installation System: Announces changes and new features in version 3.1.00 PDF
22-Sep-2016 MainView Infrastructure: Describes what is new and changed in MainView Infrastructure version 6.1.01 PDF
04-Dec-2015 Installation System and RTCS: Announces changes and new features in versions 3.0.00 and 2.1.00, respectively PDF
06-May-2015 Installation System: Announces changes and new features in version 2.4.10 PDF
06-May-2015 MainView for DB2: Summarizes the new features in version 11.2 PDF
Online Technical Documentation
29-Feb-2024 Online documentation for the current version of the Installation System HTM
11-Jan-2023 Online documentation for the MainView for DB2 product and the BMC MainView for DB2 Management solution HTM
 
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