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15 days ago in z/OS / Documentation 0 Submitted

ACEE Modification Detection events to SMF

Having an ACEE modification event generate an SMF record would be helpful to an organization's SOC team or any SIEM solution. Today the only way to generate an actionable alert is to roll your own automation and build an actionable event based on ...
4 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Signed SMF Records - Improvement of the Validation Process with IFASMFDL

Currently one has to follow the below steps to activate and validate signed SMF records (According: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=records-setting-up-using-digitally-signed-smf).The basic steps to set up and use digitally signed SMF r...
2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under consideration

Bundle python with the z/OS base system

Including Python as a part of z/OS will offer several advantages, similar to REXX being bundled with z/OS. Python is an extremely versatile programming language with a wide range of applications, from web development to data analysis, artificial i...
10 months ago in z/OS / General 1 Future consideration

Rust language

“Rust teams at Google are as productive as ones using Go, and more than twice as productive as teams using C++.”Lars Bergstrom, Google Director of Engineering, Android Platform Tools & Libraries, in RustNation UK 2024. Now that there is Open X...
8 months ago in z/OS / LE 4 Future consideration

Write message from JES2 policy to joblog

JES2 policies can be used to force installation requirements like accouting information.The user should be informed that the job does not meet the guidelines especially if it is canceled by a poicy. And a good place to do this is joblog.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / JES2 4 Future consideration

z/OSMF plugin to support SYSPLEX systems with multiple MAS's

We run a 10 system Sysplex and each of these systems has its own JES2 MAS. Currently, the zOSMF Plugin does not have the capability to see all these zOS systems and without this capability, we don't see our site making much use of the zOSMF Plugin.
about 2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Under review

Add/Modify support for file mode host fixcds commands for auditing purpose

For Auditing purpose, we are using an ISV Product from Rocket (Mainstar fast audit). This tool is very helpful to identify AND fix errors at the HSM CDSs. For the classical Host this tool works very well. Now we have requested the support for our ...
2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Signed SMF Records - Validation must be possible with any Token name (holding the pubic key)

We are using SMF dual signature (RECSIGN and ARECSIGN) which works as expected. However, we have a problem with the validation of the records.We have a specific naming pattern assigned to our Tokens (as referenced in SMFPRMxx) member. All our syst...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Override CFRM preference list on the SETXCF START command

Whenever there is the need of reallocating structures over the CFs available on a Sysplex the command SETXCF START,REBUILD,STRNAME is used. This command if used with the option LOC=OTHER will honor the CFRM preference list on the active policy. Th...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

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