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Learn what's new or changed for BMC Helix Continuous Optimization 23.1, including new features, urgent issues, and documentation updates.

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Mar 14, 2023

Enhancements available in this release:

  • Analyze forecasted data from external sources
  • Updates to vSphere views
    • Future saturation and Watchlist pages in the VMware Infrastructure view
    • VM snapshots and Future saturation pages in the VMware Virtual Machines view
    • Enhanced Cluster over-subscription recommendations page
  • Check ETL health for optimal data collection 
  • Include untagged business services in the Business Services view
  • Assign permission to create and edit data marts
  • ETL module enhancements

Feb 03, 2023

Enhancements available in this release:

  • Analyze the resource usage of servers by using workload definitions
  • ETL module enhancements

Jan 12, 2023

Enhancements available in this release:

  • Analyze improved memory recommendations for Kubernetes containers 
  • Reconcile entities to resolve duplicate data
  • Filter entities by entity status in a summary data mart
  • Extract status details of Gateway Server and agents
  • Review data from the virtual node namespace in the VMware vSphere view
  • Update all Remote ETL Engines simultaneously 
  • Enhanced Moviri - K8S (Kubernetes) Prometheus extractor
  • Support for new versions of operating systems

Dec 09, 2022

Enhancements available in this release:

  • Verify the status of remote components
  • Analyze the metric behavior against a baseline to detect data anomaly
  • Migrate rule-based custom statistics from TrueSight Capacity Optimization 
  • Manage Agent lists using REST API
  • Enhancements in the K8S (Kubernetes) Prometheus ETL

Nov 14, 2022

Enhancements available in this release:

  • Updates to the custom optimizer rules
    • Specify a namespace to choose a data source for a metric 
    • Compare a day profile baseline data against the same day of the week or month
  • Create a composite report based on a report template
  • Reimport data by running an ETL in the data repair mode
  • Specify multiple golden model scenario IDs in a summary data mart 
  • Enhanced IND_USAGE_SCORE indicator
  • ETL module enhancements

Oct 10, 2022

Enhancements available in this release:

  • Get insights into the overall health and status of business services in BMC Helix Dashboards
  • Manage the capacity of your mainframe environment
  • Nonnegative percentile-shift linear trend algorithm in Time Forecasting Model 
  • Maps page in the Servers Overview view
  • Export and import ETL configuration by using APIs
  • Add and edit string configuration metrics 
  • Domain and tag filters for Optimize data marts in BMC Helix Dashboards
  • Display of the Standard Time label to indicate non-DST affected time zones in an analysis
  • Support for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS operating system
  • ETL module enhancements

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