New features in this release

Blocked applications in a Sysplex

When a block is issued in a node that uses a generic ACB, and it is part of a IBM Session Manager SYSPLEXGROUP, all other nodes in the group that are also using the same generic ACB will be automatically updated with the new blocked status. Consequently, it might not be necessary to issue the block to all nodes.

Enable ESM classes to be resident in a dataspace

In this release of IBM Session Manager, an option is provided to specify that any of the configured External Security Manager (ESM) class profiles can be resident in a dataspace.

Consequently, if you are using the IBM Session Manager Operations Plug-in and select the Security refresh option in Nodes view for a particular IBM Session Manager node or Sysplex Group, then the in-storage profiles class data is refreshed for any of the ESM classes which have been specified under the SECURITY parameter of the SYSTEM statement. Only classes which have been specified with a subparameter of GLOBAL NO (which is the default) will be refreshed.

Note: Classes specified with GLOBAL YES will be dynamically refreshed when a SETROPTS RACLIST(esmclassname) REFRESH has been issued to the ESM and do not require you to select Security refresh to reflect updates to the ESM database.

Eclipse codepage translation

Requests and responses between the Eclipse Client and mainframe Server are translated, using the user's codepage at the Client, into EBCDIC at the Server. IBM Session Manager supports English, German, Japanese and Canadian-French users through appropriate message Language Packs. These messages have been translated using specific CCSIDs. By default, the Eclipse Client supports these.

If additional Language Packs are created, the IBM Session Manager Eclipse-based interface may be customized to support these using the XLATECP parameter introduced in IBM Session Manager release 3.2.00. For details, see the Technical Reference manual.