UIM 20.x tidbits

[David Michel]

New naming convention
20.1 = year & quarter, so first quarter of 2020

Some of the new things:
IBM i7.3
SUSE 15.5
Ubuntu 18.4 LTS
RHEL8
Debian 9
Windows 2016 & 2019
MS SQL Server 2017 for UIM DB
Oracle 19c  for UIM DB
Availability report (found in OC Operator Console)
improved hub LDAP functionality and performance
new REST APIs for MCS
over all improved performance & reliability

OS versions dropped
AIX PowerPC 6.1, 6.2, 7.0
HP-UX 11.2
CentOS 5
Debian 5, 6
RHEL 5
Ubuntu12 x86_32
Windows 2008

What's to come
20.3 (3rd quarter this year) end of Flash

Two directions in development (as understood by me)
UIM - Flash free, standalone product as is now
DX IM - Flash free, data source for DX OI

Flash dependent
USM 
Discovery Wizard
Group Management 
MCS
PRD Performance Report Designer
Alarm management in UMP
Dashboard Designer
List Designer 
Unified Dashboards
Unified Reporter
SLA management  
Maintenance scheduling

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Support Engineer
Broadcom
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[Garin Walsh]

Knowing that two quarters from now is almost non-existent you indicate two things:

UIM - Flash free, standalone product as is now

and

Flash dependent
USM
Discovery Wizard
Group Management
MCS
PRD Performance Report Designer
Alarm management in UMP
Dashboard Designer
List Designer
Unified Dashboards
Unified Reporter
SLA management
Maintenance scheduling


Is there any information on the plan to address each one of these? My past experience with the UIM product is that plans like this come along with the product just dropping the functionality. Why fix or port it when it can just be dropped from the product is the argument I have seen. 

Case in point, IM - there's still no replacement for that and it has been 8 years now.

Or the five or so attempts to replace the package archive over the past decade. Nothing there has come functionally close to the original package archive though I wish it would because the package archive is just backwards.

[David Michel]

That's for pointing that out. 

'UIM - Flash free, standalone product as is now'
is one half of:
Two directions in development (as understood by me)
UIM - Flash free, standalone product as is now
DX IM - Flash free, data source for DX OI

As in two design directions, 'as is now' meaning the use of the product is basically as it is now from a design perspective. Both will be flash free. 

'Flash dependent' is a totally separate item just listing what is currently flash dependent. 

Hopefully that addresses what you point out.

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Support Engineer
Broadcom
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[Garin Walsh]

Not sure it does.

To phrase differently, will the portlet "Dashboard Designer" exist in 20.3 as an HTML5 implementation or will it be dropped from the product in order to make UIM "flash free"?

[David Michel]

Don't know if there will be a Dashboard Designer replacement or if it will just go to CABI. 
Really don't know, there hasn't been any info on it at all to come my way. 
Don't say it, know what you are thinking, CABI doesn't have nearly all the versatility.

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Support Engineer
Broadcom
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[Luc Christiaens]

It's not only the Dashboard Designer, but also:
- list view/design
- prd view/design
- sla/slm
- ..
In the 20.1 webcast there was no real information how this will be replaced in a "at least as good" way. (except some vague reference to an extra product AIOps, but I'm trying to find some installation/administration guide of this new/extra product)

[Garin Walsh]

And just to share a terrified UIM owner's worry, if you have a web presence built on any of the current UIM versions - including 20.1 - it will use UMP and the associated portlets. 

Now consider what's going to happen if the list viewer and performance reporter "go away"? How about the dashboard designer?

What if you are a MSP and provide that UI to thousands of customers?

What if you have to now rewrite your entire UI to use CABI or some other likely inadequate replacement?

How about training and documentation?

Hardware deployment (because CABI runs on a second set of servers)?

And all at the whim of product release schedules because if your security group is even half respectable they're not going to let you continue to run unsupported software in a production and public facing fashion.

And what happens when 20.4 comes out or 21.1 and now you have to be on a flash free version because security policies have compelled you to use a product version that no longer fulfills the current product function. 

Time to dust off the RFP used to purchase Nimsoft and start sending that around I think.

[James Christensen]

I understand and concur with Garin's comments. Removing components that have been in the product for years without providing a replacement that is "as good as" or better along with a method to migrate from one to the other is not the way to retain customers. I could hark back to the old days of the Enterprise Console which used ActiveX widgets to build dashboards. It remained a viable component until SDP (the UMP predecessor) had the widgets and capabilities that were on par with the Enterprise Console. I learned a long time ago that it is more cost effective to retain current customers than have to find and acquire new customers to replace them.

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[City]
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[Daniel Blanco]

Hi  @Luc Christiaens wait what webcast?

Also are these depreciated in 20.1 or a future release? 

It's not only the Dashboard Designer, but also:

- list view/design

- prd view/design

- sla/slm

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Daniel Blanco
Enterprise Tools Team Architect
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[David Michel]

they are all there in 20.1, and are not supposed to be in 20.3 which is flash free.

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Support Engineer
Broadcom
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[Luc Christiaens]

https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/11217/385308?utm_campaign=communication_reminder_starting_now_registrants&utm_medium=email&utm_source=brighttalk-transact&utm_content=thumb

[Dan Gill]

The Dashboard Designer portlet went away in version 7 if I recall correctly. The Dashboard portlet is already HTML5.