What's new in Maximo Application Suite 8.11

 Installation 

•  Support for MongoDB 5.0 and 6.0

Configuration

• Manage trusted certificate authorities
• Customizing the workload
• Horizontal and vertical pod scaling
• Pod scheduling with affinity and anti-affinity
• Pod scheduling with tolerations

Suite administration

• Configuring multiple login options
• Login notification
• Activate and deactivate users
• Enhancement to delete users
• Support for roll back and version lock
• API keys for user management
• Audit log generation to support the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)
• Configuring passwords settings page moved to local authentication

Maximo Application Suite enhancements on Microsoft Azure

• Support for new databases  :Starting in Maximo Application Suite 8.11, configure databases such as Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle Database for using IBM Maximo Manage.
•  These databases can be hosted on private subnet of another VPC.

Maximo Application Suite enhancements on Amazon Web Services

Support for new databases :Starting in Maximo Application Suite 8.11, configure databases such as Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle Database for using IBM Maximo Manage. These databases can be hosted on private subnet of another VPC.

VPC peering is used to establish connection between the VPC of Amazon Web Services stack to the VPC of a database to establish database connection when the stack is deployed.

Support for selecting EBS volume type

Starting in Maximo Application Suite, support for selecting either gp3 or io1 as EBS volume type for worker nodes.

• FIPS and FISMA support for Maximo Application Suite on Amazon Web Services Marketplace in US GovCloud regions
• A Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) and Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) supported Maximo Application Suite can now be installed in the Amazon Web Services US GovCloud regions.
• The BYOL option is available for installing Maximo Application Suite in private hosted zone for existing Red Hat OpenShift cluster and New Red Hat OpenShift cluster by using the User Provisioned Infrastructure (UPI).

User assistance improvements

• Upgrading from IBM Maximo Asset Management to IBM Maximo Manage

Applications, industry solutions, accelerators, and add-ons

IBM Maximo IT

IBM Maximo IT is now available in Maximo Application Suite. Maximo IT provides a single point of user support and enterprise service management of information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) assets and processes.

Reliability Strategies

Reliability Strategies is now available in Maximo Application Suite. 

By using Reliability Strategies, you can access a library of maintenance strategies that are based on reliability-centered maintenance and include both failure details and mitigation activities for each failure.  The library was developed by industry and domain experts and contains hundreds of assets and tens of thousands of possible failures across all known operating contexts.

New accelerators in the Maximo Application Suite catalog

Accelerators are solutions that are provided by IBM and IBM partners to complement or extend Maximo Application Suite capabilities. 

IBM Maximo Models for Electrical Distribution

IBM Maximo Models for Electrical Distribution provides model templates to enhance the reliability of energy and utility assets to anticipate downtime, degradation, and failures. 

This accelerator includes prebuilt notebooks and configuration files for several transmission and distribution asset classes, incorporating features available in IBM Maximo Health and IBM Maximo Predict.

Maximo Manage has new function to reduce system downtime when you do an update

After you upgrade to IBM Maximo Application Suite operator version 8.11, configure a database state to reduce Maximo Manage system downtime as you upgrade to Maximo Manage 8.7. and subsequent Maximo Manage upgrades.

Removal of Maximo Health and Predict - Utilities and Parts Identifier

Starting in Maximo Application Suite 8.11, the following industry solution and add-on are no longer available:

• Maximo Health and Predict - Utilities
• Parts Identifier

For More information please follow the below link.

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/mas-cd/continuous-delivery?topic=new-in-811