Release Notes 6.4.0

This topic provides information about the new features and enhancements, bug fixes, and database changes that have been implemented in this version of Automic Automation Intelligence as well as enhancements and bug fixes that are connector-specific.

Enhancements

Control-M (Z) (Mainframe) Support

With this version, all of the functionality of Automic Automation Intelligence is now available for Control-M (Z) instances. This includes monitoring, alerting, predictions, reporting, and so on.

For more information, see:

Universal Scheduler Cross-Instance Dependencies

As of this version, it is possible to create custom dependencies between jobs in any of the automation engines whose support is based on the Universal Framework. Currently, this includes the following automation engines:

  • Automic Automation

  • ESP

  • Control-M (distributed and mainframe)

These custom dependencies are created via the REST API and allow you to monitor applications across scheduling instances in a single jobstream.

Performance Improvements

This version also includes incremental performance improvements in the process for building historical jobstream runs.

Additional Memory Management Options

Additional tuning has been added to the G1GC memory management options to improve performance.

Improved Handling of Caching for IWSz/AutoSys Dependencies

The way that caching is handled for some of the objects required for IWSz/AutoSys cross-instance predictions to update objects in parallel has been improved. This enhancement improves the performance of the Jammer Manager sequence.

This improvement was driven by the following customer ticket: DE509897.

Bug Fixes

  • Resolved an issue so that all SMTP configuration changes made through the Configuration tool take effect without are start of AAI.

    Associated ticket: DE454710

  • Fixed an issue that prevented SNMP trap messages from properly being sent by AAI if any of the fieldsin the message contained more than 255 characters (for example, running jobs). With this fix:

    • An IllegalArgumentException is eliminated.

    • Any content greater than 255 to the first 252 characters is truncated. It is followed by an '...' to indicate that there was additional information.

    Associated ticket: DE512097

  • Resolved an issue that prevented the Conditions tab of the Job Details from updating properly when navigating through jobs in the gantt view of a jobstream run.

  • Renamed the Readable Conditions tab within the Job Details dialog to Conditions.

  • Resolved security vulnerabilities.

    By upgrading to jackson-databind 2.9.10, the following security vulnerabilities have been resolved:

    • CVE-2020-10672

    • CVE-2020-10673

    • CVE-2020-10968

    • CVE-2020-10969

    • CVE-2020-11111

    • CVE-2020-11112

    • CVE-2020-11113

    • CVE-2020-11619

    • CVE-2020-11620

    • CVE-2020-14060

    • CVE-2020-14061

    • CVE-2020-14062

    • CVE-2020-14195

    • CVE-2020-24616

    • CVE-2020-24750

    • CVE-2020-25649

    • CVE-2020-35490

    • CVE-2020-35491

    • CVE-2020-35728

    • CVE-2020-36179

    • CVE-2020-36180

    • CVE-2020-36181

    • CVE-2020-36182

    • CVE-2020-36183

    • CVE-2020-36184

    • CVE-2020-36185

    • CVE-2020-36186

    • CVE-2020-36187

    • CVE-2020-36188

    • CVE-2020-36189

    • CVE-2020-9546

    • CVE-2020-9547

    • CVE-2020-9548

    • CVE-2021-20190

Database Schema Upgrade Summary from 6.3.1-2

Modified Tables

 

Table Name Change Type Column(s) Affected
JobStream Add jobStreamRunStartingJobOption