IBM United States Software Announcement 209-431, dated December 8, 2009 IBM WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS , V6.1.5 delivers enhanced professional editing capability Table of contents 1 Overview 5 Publications 2 Key prerequisites 6 Ordering information 3 Planned availability date 9 Terms and conditions 3 Description 14 Prices 5 Program number 15 Order now At a glance IBM® WebSphere® Portal Enable for z/OS®, V6.1.5 provides new features that further empower portal users, delivers improved capabilities for better portal performance and optimization, and adds support for popular Web programming tools and techniques that make it easier to contribute to, and manage, the portal. • Take advantage of an OEM version of EditLive! • Use new page and template builder capabilities that greatly simplify portal page creation and management, further empowering business users and freeing IT. • Improved portal start-up option and new site analytics integration and support help to further optimize portal applications and improve portal cost-of-ownership. • Has new mashup creation, editing, and sharing capability added, as well as support for rendering of mashups created outside, directly in WebSphere Portal that provides greater flexibility and increased value. • Delivers new support of popular Web page content scripting, authoring, and management techniques greatly expands the community of portal developers and contributors. For ordering, contact your IBM representative or an IBM Business Partner. For more information, contact the Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (426-2255). Reference: LE001 Overview IBM WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS, V6.1.5 provides an enterprise portal solution that builds upon a solid foundation of previous WebSphere Portal releases. Available for IBM WebSphere Portal Extend, this new release provides capabilities that further empower portal users to contribute to, as well as manage, portal content and presentation. It also features improved portal performance and optimization capabilities, which can help contribute to a lower cost-of-ownership. New support is added for popular Web and Web content tools and techniques that make it easier for more resources to contribute to and manage the portal. Combined with the Web 2.0 advances previously introduced in WebSphere Portal, these new features help organizations better deliver and manage exceptional Web user experiences. Ephox EditLive! • A feature-rich and easy-to-use OEM interface helps business and content editors to quickly create content - increasing user adoption and helping the organization leverage their investment in Lotus® Web Content Management throughout the business to realize a higher return on investment. It ships alongside the current IBM United States Software Announcement IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 1 209-431 HTML editor in IBM Lotus Web Content Management, which is also known as the Orthogonal Defect Classification (ODC) editor. • By enabling less technical staff to create rich Web documents without reliance on technical staff, this new offering allows users to get content online faster while helping to ensure that content is rendered correctly on all browsers with centralized style sheet controls that reduce time previously wasted on formatting. • Now line-of-business users can more easily improve the usability of their Web site with a range of powerful text editing features, including clean copy and paste from Microsoft® Word. Key new features • New Page Builder and portal page template creation capabilities greatly simplify portal page creation and management, further empowering business users and freeing IT. • Optional selective portal start-up dramatically reduces portal start-up time; integration with popular third-party site analytics solutions help to further optimize portal applications and improve portal cost-of-ownership. • Added support for mashup creation, editing, and sharing, as well as support for the rendering of mashups available from IBM Mashup Center, directly in WebSphere Portal, provides greater flexibility and increased value. • New WebDav support allows portal page browsing, editing, and storing via external Web design tools. Coupled with content authoring via added support for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP), one of the world's most popular programming languages for building dynamic data-driven Web applications, techniques, these new capabilities greatly expand the community of portal developers and contributors to users with associated skills. • Unleash the power of social software capabilities such as blogs and wikis to convert Web site visitors to participants and customers. • Reduce integration costs with ECM solutions by leveraging out of box Document Picker to access content from ECM repositories such as FileNet®, IBM CM, and QuickrTM. • Web Content Integrator provides incremental value by consuming and publishing of external content repositories. • Enhance ease-of-use by enabling authoring of content and template creation using tools such as Dreamweaver and WebDAV hooks. Other new features and enhancements: • Ability for authorized users to "impersonate" other users; helps support personnel safely troubleshoot portal applications • JSR 286 rendering portlet updated and enhanced with improved inline editing support; simplifies use of Lotus Web Content Management generated content for portal pages • People Picker search enhanced to support better and faster search results Key prerequisites Any hardware that supports: • z/OS V1.8, or later Additional software: • DB2 Universal Database for z/OS V9.1 or V8.1 • WebSphere Application Server (base or Network Deployment) V7.0.0.6 with Java SDK 1.6 or WebSphere Application Server V6.1.0.27 with Java SDK 1.5 SR9-2 • Derby V10.3 for WebSphere Application Server V7.0.0.6 or Derby V10.1 for WebSphere Application Server V6.1.0.27 IBM United States Software Announcement IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 2 209-431 • Optional - WebSphere Process Server V6.2*, V6.1.2, and V6.1.0.1 (all via Client Install option only with WebSphere Application Server V6.1x releases) (*refer to technote #1398123 for V6.2 Client installation) For the latest software requirements, visit http://www.ibm.com/websphere/portal/library Planned availability date December 11, 2009 Description IBM WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS, V6.1.5 builds upon previous releases to provide an enterprise portal solution with the complete portal services necessary to deliver a single point of personalized interaction with applications, content, business processes, and people. The unified, exceptional, user experience can help you improve overall productivity and customer satisfaction. WebSphere Portal rationalizes and simplifies IT infrastructure by delivering a complete set of portal platform services: • Framework services • Integration services • Content services • Collaboration services These services can be leveraged by the entitled WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer to build role-based, portal applications that can help improve the effectiveness of your organization. Because WebSphere Portal utilizes service oriented architecture (SOA), these applications can use existing assets and can be quickly modified to meet changing roles and business conditions. IBM WebSphere Portal Enable All the features of IBM WebSphere Portal Server plus: • IBM Lotus Web Content Management, which is included with a restricted license for portal use, enables you to rapidly build next generation Web sites with new enhancements that can be used throughout the entire content lifecycle. Improvements in authoring, management, and delivery enable you to interact with your customers, partners, and employees in new ways. Within Lotus Web Content Management, you get the OEM version of Ephox EditLive! that provides a feature rich and easy interface that helps business and content editors to create content - increasing user adoption and helping the organization to leverage their investment in IBM Lotus Web Content Management within the business to realize a higher return on investment. It also provides the capability to create rich Web documents with less reliance on technical staff. This new offering allows the user to get content online faster while helping ensure content is rendered correctly on all browsers with centralized style sheet controls that reduce time previously wasted on formatting. • Document management is provided with a restricted use license of IBM Lotus Quickr. Your users can easily share, view, and organize files of all types ranging from documents to spreadsheets within the portal community. You can quickly set up document libraries so your teams can easily share your rich media content with features such as customizable meta data and version control. Your documents are also accessible from any browser interface including feeds and custom built portlets created with WebSphere Portlet Factory builders. IBM United States Software Announcement IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 3 209-431 IBM OmniFindTM Enterprise edition (restricted use) supports WebSphere Portal solution requirements for additional search sources and features, and greater scalability. Accessibility by people with disabilities You can request a U.S. Section 508 Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VAPT) with details on accessibility compliance at http://www.ibm.com/able/product_accessibility/index.html Business Partner information