MainView for CICS (Version 6.7.00)

Version Support Status : END OF VERSION SUPPORT
Full Support End Date : 13-Dec-2018
End Of Support Date : 18-Jun-2020

View the PAC (Product Availability and Compatibility) matrix for the English user interface of version 6.7.00
Customer Advisories
Date Tracking Numbers Description Available Formats
Flash
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
27-Jan-2017 Installation System: Missing FMIDs during the installation of some MainView products PDF
16-Jan-2017 MainView for CICS and MainView AutoOPERATOR: After applying PTF BPZ0775 or BPZ0776, you might receive message FT126S and a IBM CICS SOS condition might occur PDF
29-Sep-2016 MainView for CICS: After PTF BPZ0779 or BPZ0780 is applied, the BBI-SS PAS might issue the FT351E message, which occurs before an S0Cx abend in the BBI-SS PAS 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
09-May-2016 MainView AutoOPERATOR for CICS and MainView for CICS: Commands from the product address space (PAS) to an IBM CICS region might be suspended PDF
29-Apr-2016 MainView AutoOPERATOR for CICS and MainView for CICS: Applying PTF BPZ0753 or installing certain versions of the product might cause S0C4 abends in BBI-SS PAS, followed by problems reconnecting to CICS targets PDF
28-Apr-2016 MainView for CICS: Using some full-screen displays and the DUMP view might cause S0C4 abends PDF
14-Apr-2016 MainView Infrastructure: An expired certificate causes Java Security to block access to MainView Explorer PDF
29-Jan-2016 MainView Infrastructure: Applying PTF BQY0926 causes MVE to use incorrect credentials to access views and data PDF
Technical Bulletin
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
18-Jul-2019 (ID 713) MainView for CICS: Installing MainView AutoOPERATOR 8.2 in an SMP zone that includes a version of MainView for CICS earlier than 6.9 can cause NO DATA errors 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
14-Sep-2018 MainView for CICS: Using a temporary storage queue that is in a shared pool might cause an abend, a storage overlay, or a problem for data collection and monitoring agents 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
30-Mar-2018 MainView for CICS: MainView for CICS now supports new SIT parameters (KERBEROSUSER and SNPRESET) and has updated the CREVIEW view 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
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 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
07-Jun-2016 MainView for CICS: The release notes for version 6.7 specify incorrect resource names for the SET BUNDLE PHASEIN action command 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
19-Feb-2016 MainView for CICS: During IBM CICS shutdown, termination of the MainView for CICS agent might be unexpectedly delayed PDF
04-Dec-2015 PUT1502B is available PDF
Release Notes
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 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
14-Jul-2016 Updated release notes (originally released December 11, 2015 for MainView for CICS): Describes what is new and changed in version 6.7.00 of MainView for CICS PDF
04-Dec-2015 Installation System and RTCS: Announces changes and new features in versions 3.0.00 and 2.1.00, respectively PDF
Online Technical Documentation
29-Feb-2024 Online documentation for the current version of the Installation System HTM
25-Apr-2017 Online documentation for MainView for CICS version 6.7.00 HTM
 
Product Documents Language :
Title Date Format
BMC Infrastructure Components Administration Guide 08-Dec-2016 PDF
BMC Infrastructure Components Administration Guide 01-May-2016 PDF
BMC Runtime Component System Configuration and Administration Guide 14-Sep-2012 PDF
MainView Administration Guide 22-Jun-2017 PDF
MainView Administration Guide 22-Sep-2016 PDF
MainView Alarm Management User Guide 23-Mar-2017 PDF
MainView Alarm Management User Guide 14-Sep-2012 PDF
MainView Alternate Access Implementation and User Guide Version 5.0 15-Dec-2005 PDF
MainView Customization Reference Manual 22-Jun-2017 PDF
MainView Infrastructure 6.2 space (11,745 KB) 16-Sep-2018 PDF
MainView Infrastructure 6.3 space (11,507 KB) 16-Sep-2018 PDF
MainView Security Guide 17-Nov-2010 PDF
MainView Security Reference Manual 22-Jun-2017 PDF
MainView Security Reference Manual 22-Sep-2016 PDF
MainView Threshold Management Guide 14-Sep-2012 PDF
MainView for CICS Customization Guide, Version 6.7 11-Dec-2015 PDF
MainView for CICS Monitors Guide, Version 6.7 11-Dec-2015 PDF
MainView for CICS Online Services Reference Manual. Version 6.7 11-Dec-2015 PDF
MainView for CICS PERFORMANCE REPORTER DATA REFERENCE, Version 6.7 11-Dec-2015 PDF
MainView for CICS PERFORMANCE REPORTER User Guide, Version 6.7 11-Dec-2015 PDF