Release note: 4.1.0

Release notes: 4.1.0

New look, new features, many improvements... We are delighted to present release 4.1.0 of the Zetaly Suite!

This release mainly concerns the Streaming Agent module, designed to optimize, automate and streamline the use and monitoring of your connectors and parsers. 

But it's not just technical developments we're offering you in this release. We're also introducing the tool's new look! Today applied to the Streaming Agent module and its new features, tomorrow it will be rolled out across the entire platform, offering you greater comfort in viewing and using our interfaces.

Welcome to the release note, and happy reading!

Release overview

The Messaging (Streaming Agent's service) has been completely revamped, with a number of new features and enhancements:

• new interface: revamped and enhanced to ease reading

  • table, charts, filters

• monitoring improvement

  • integration of the monitoring dashboard and enhancement of the statistics charts within the connectors and parsers

• connectors and parsers functionalities improvement

  • autostart, retry, autoscale, mass actions

• tag functionality to customize the identification of the connectors

  • and tag management

What’s new

The following table lists the high-level impact (or potential impact, if any) of each of these features and how to handle it if upgrading to this version. Continue reading the release note below the table for a detailed explanation of each feature.

Messaging New Interfaces (Streaming Agent)

The full description is available in the dedicated article (here)

General New Look

We are progressively revamping the interfaces of the Zetaly tool, beginning with the Messaging. A look closer to the Zetaly brand with a darker appearance for more visual comfort and clearer presentation to ease the reading.

How To Navigate

• From Regular to New Version and Back

The new style will eventually be applied throughout the tool, but for now it only affects the Messaging interfaces. These are accessible via the usual path but are isolated, i.e. they contain no navigation other than within themselves. To exit and return to the current version of the tool, click on the dedicated "Back To Portal" button.

• Within the New Version

Navigation is restricted to the three Messaging pages and the Tag Management located in MYZetaly. To navigate within Messaging, simply use the internal navigation bar at the top right of the screen. To access the Tag Management, use the classical top navigation bar.

Connectors And Parsers New Presentation

Connectors and parsers are now presented in two distinct pages and in the form of a table to display clearly the necessary information for you to quickly find the item you are looking for.

The status have been renamed to be more explicit: “Running” is the new “Started”, “Ready” is the new “Sleeping” and “Warning” has been introduced.

Table rows are expandable to access more detail if needed. The essential data for each item is displayed in the form of a graph which you can enlarge and zoom in on to focus on specific information. Below the graph, you will find the logs for the item.

Messaging Monitoring (Streaming Agent)

Monitoring Dashboard

The full description is available in the dedicated article (here)

We have integrated a monitoring dashboard to facilitate the use of the monitoring system and the identification of necessary actions.

In this initial version, the page features three widgets. One monitors the queue system and the two others monitor the parsers and connectors status to allow the quick identification of errors.

Future versions of this dashboard will be enriched with additional information.

Connectors and Parsers New Functionalities (Streaming Agent)

Please refer to the dedicated article for detailed information on the following functionalities (here).

Mass Actions

Since the table presentation was designed to handle a potentially large number of connectors, we have introduced the capability to perform mass actions  on several connectors simultaneously.

The available mass actions are:

• Mass Start

• Mass Stop

• Mass Delete

• Tag Assignment for multiple connectors

Connectors and Parsers Autostart

This functionality automatically launches the item upon creation and in the event of machine outages. However, this functionality will not relaunch an item that was manually stopped.

Connectors and Parsers Automatic Retry

The automatic retry functionality allows to set up a number of automatic retries in case of failure and specify the delay between retries.

Connectors and Parsers Autoscale

When activated, this option automatically creates a new instance to handle the processing of messages or records. When the workload decreases, the instance is removed.

Tags Creation and Assignment (MYZetaly and Streaming Agent)

We have enhanced the ability to identify connectors in a personalized way by integrating the concept of tags.

You can now create tags that reflect your specific needs (such as structures, entities, services, etc.) and associate them with the connectors you want, so you can track them specifically.

Tags are centralized in a new dedicated interface located in MYZetaly, and are available as filters in the dashboard monitoring and connectors interface.

What’s improved

Customize Your Tables in the New Interfaces

With the new functionality, you can choose to display only the relevant columns in the tables of the new interfaces (tags, connectors, parsers). You can also arrange the order of these columns, allowing you to fully customize your table to meet your needs.

Read more about it in this article here.

Introduction of the Search Functionnality

We have integrated a search bar into the interface to help you quickly find information in the connectors table. This search bar allows you to search for connectors by their name, host or associated tags.

Filters in the Connectors Table and in the Monitoring Dahsboard

We have integrated a filter panel that allows you to select specific connectors based on their LPARs, status, type or associated tags. This functionality is available both in the connectors table and in the monitoring dashboard, enabling you to display highly specific information according to your needs.

Connectors and Parsers Charts

For each connector and parser, the number of charts and their content has been reduced and optimized to help you quickly identify relevant information about the processing of messages and records.

Read this article for the complete description.

What’s fixed

List of major bug fix

• [ZSA] Delete running agent does not delete workers

• [ZSI] module not deployed in linux installation

• [ZHB] sys.admin Cannot set allowed modules to user profile

• [ZDE] "ERROR: Error getting data from filters : undefined" after a link to other objects

• [ZCC] The TFP contract is not clearly displayed

• [ZSA] SMF 100-2 column name malformed

• [ZRP] It's possible to create event on Active Plan simulation

• [ZUP] Inputs are in wrong order

Patch 4.1.1

• Update Linux dotnet services on s390x to use installed dotnet

• Fix new Zetaly front installation. ZSI_INSTALLATION=1 is not required anymore

• New CICS fields in microseconds (see SMF 110-1 CICS TS for z/OS Statistics)

• Revamped custom filters for better drag and drop

• ZQM new feature: RAM limitation

Patch 4.1.2

• Fix ZSA history aggregation

• Fix ZQM error when loading saved file from system

• Fix CICS cube build (problem introduced by 4.1.1)

Patch 4.1.3

• Avoid ZSAC crashes due to network errors.

• Improved accuracy of usage and processing time statistics in ZSA.

• Improved algorithm for automatically changing the number of instances in ZSA.

• Corrects statistics for number of elements in tail for connectors and parsers

• Improved ZQM queues responsiveness under overload conditions

• For multi-instance connectors and parsers, instances that have been stopped or are in error are now automatically restarted.