MainView FOCAL POINT (Version 1.2.00)

Version Support Status : END OF VERSION SUPPORT
Full Support End Date : 30-Jun-2019
End Of Support Date : 30-Jun-2020

View the PAC (Product Availability and Compatibility) matrix for the English user interface of version 1.2.00
Customer Advisories
Date Tracking Numbers Description Available Formats
Flash
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
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
15-Apr-2014 BMC Software is alerting users to a serious issue where some BMC Products and services might be vulnerable to the OpenSSL flaw known as Heartbleed (CVE-2014-0160). PDF |
16-Jan-2007 Describes a problem where a BBI-SS PAS (or terminal session) that is connected to another BBI-SS PAS by way of a VTAM link might hang (stop processing) and the XS4114W message is issued PDF | HTM
10-Jan-2000 Potential Y2K issue with BPI7473 and MAINVIEW FOCAL POINT and AutoOPERATOR. PDF | HTM
Technical Bulletin
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
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
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
29-Sep-2017 MainView products now support running on Version 2.3 of the IBM z/OS system PDF
09-Dec-2016 UIM: BMC is providing instructions for creating SSL/TLS certificates for use with UIM PDF
17-Apr-2014 BMC Software is alerting users to check the BMC Support Home page for the latest information about products assessed for vulnerability. Only a few assessed products are affected. PDF
21-Mar-2011 PUT0902B: Problems have been reported PDF | HTM
10-Mar-2011 PUT1001B: Problems have been reported PDF | HTM
14-Jan-2011 PUT1002B: Issues have been reported PDF | HTM
23-Sep-2010 PUT1001A: Problems have been reported PDF
22-Sep-2010 When customizing a product by using MainView Customization, the trace directory is not created. PDF | HTM
23-Jun-2010 Commands fail with error IEE707I when using the CMDCHAR parameter in the BBPARM member BBISSP00 PDF | HTM
04-Jan-2010 PUT0902B: Problems have been reported PDF | HTM
30-Dec-2008 PUT0801A is available PDF | HTM
30-Dec-2008 PUT0801B is available PDF | HTM
30-Dec-2008 PUT0802A: Problems have been reported PDF | HTM
29-Dec-2008 Fix for a failure that is in the recovery path for a previous abend for MAINVIEW BBI-SS products and BMC Impact Integration for z/OS PDF | HTM
15-Aug-2008 Using MAINVIEW FOCAL POINT with maintenance from PUT0801B (and later) or PTF BQI0200 applied might result in an abend 0C4 in the CSPTOA module when ALERTs are accessed from MAINVIEW AutoOPERATOR targets PDF | HTM
14-Aug-2008 Using MAINVIEW FOCAL POINT with maintenance from PUT0801B (and later) or PTF BQI0200 applied might result in an abend 0C4 in the CSPTOA module when ALERTs are accessed from MAINVIEW AutoOPERATOR targets PDF | HTM
26-Nov-2007 Problems when the number of defined OMVS processes is exceeded after installing PUT0702A PDF | HTM
03-Mar-2007 Describes a problem where after applying PTF BPI9889 or maintenance from PUT tape 0701A, the BBI-SS PAS might abend with S0C4 errors during a recovery attempt of the PMDRVR module PDF | HTM
14-Nov-2001 PUT Tape: PUT0101 PDF | HTM
24-Aug-2001 PUT Tape: PUT0102 PDF | HTM
16-May-2001 PUT Tape: PUT0002 PDF | HTM
15-May-2001 Describes problems that can occur when MAINVIEW product trial or CPO tapes are installed with incompatible PUT maintenance levels PDF | HTM
28-Mar-2001 Describes a problem with the 3174 controller microcode level that can prevent the MAINVIEW Alternate Access TAS from initializing PDF | HTM
28-Feb-2000 PUT Tape: PUT0001 PDF | HTM
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
Installation Notes
26-Jan-2000 MainView CPO/SMP Installation Checklist - An overview of installation steps for MainView products. PDF | HTM
Product Change Notice
16-Apr-2015 April -2015 Product Change Notification PDF
Online Technical Documentation
29-Feb-2024 Online documentation for the current version of the Installation System HTM
 
Product Documents Language :
Title Date Format
Implementing Security for MainView Products 17-Feb-1999 PDF
Locating and generating PDFs of documentation 20-Mar-2020 PDF
MAINVIEW Implementation Guide 01-Nov-2000 PDF
MainView Administration Guide 30-Oct-1998 PDF
MainView Infrastructure 6.3 space (11,507 KB) 16-Sep-2018 PDF
Product Installation and Maintenance Guide (AIM and SMP/E) 30-Apr-2001 PDF
Product Installation and Maintenance Guide (CPO and SMP/E) 30-Apr-2001 PDF
Using MAINVIEW 29-May-1999 PDF