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    Document the BXH/BXLE/JXH/JXLE trick

    An article in either the systems journal or the journal of RF&D described using BXH and BXLE to test 30 bits in succession. This trick is still valid and extends to 62 consecutive tests in AMODE64. It would be useful to have it in either the e...
    9 days ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 1 Submitted

    ICIC Compatibility with Pure Storage (Terraform Dependency)

    IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center (ICIC) currently does not support integration with Pure Storage platforms. This limitation prevents ICIC from being deployed as the infrastructure management layer. This constraint has implications because Terraform...
    16 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

    Update environment checker

    There are some scenarios and situations that are not included as part of the environment checker that can have impact on the ICIC services. ICIC should ensure that logrotate settings are correct, check for required directory permissions and secont...
    16 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

    Option to change "instance_name_template" after installation to modify the virtual machine prefix

    During installation, there is a property in the config.properties file that defines the virtual machine prefix for the deployed systems. The property is called "instance_name_template" and gets set in the nova configuration to define the virtual m...
    16 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

    Global change for default_admin_userid after installation

    During ICIC installation, there is an optional parameter for z/VM configuration, "default_admin_userid," that when populated will add a LOGONBY statement to the z/VM User Directory of virtual machine deployments. This parameter is set on the confi...
    16 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

    Authentication logging and auditing to include user names

    Currently the keystone and audit logs in ICIC use the user's unique id from openstack while logging the activities. The mapping for user id to user name is available through openstack commands on the management node. If the log files are uploaded ...
    16 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

    Password spray alerts various sources

    zSecure Alert is uniquely equipped to capture events and circumstances at near real-time and can serve as an early alert for such incidents as password spraying from external sources. The identification of an attack from external sources (SSH and ...
    2 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 0 Under review

    For any incoming IMS Connect transaction: Extract user ID in USERDATA field for a specific IMS transaction profile in RACF(TIMS), and replace original user ID?

    For any incoming IMS Connect transaction: Extract user ID in USERDATA field for a specific IMS transaction profile in RACF(TIMS), and replace original user ID. user ID in USERDATA will be propagated as OMSECUID in IMS Connect. Business reaso...
    4 months ago in IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Under review

    Service Now Discovery on ICIC

    In order to auto create CMDB entries on Service Now related to the assets running into ICIC, the support for Service Now discovery is needed.Service now discovery is compatible with Openstack environments using the related API, and can natively di...
    4 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

    Fix HLASM line continuation detection issue in MortgageApplication sample shipped with DBB

    The HLASM parser fails to correctly capture the line continuation when using IBM Z Open Editor to view the epsmort.bms file (lines 24-27) of the MortgageApplication sample shipped with DBB, and marks it as a code warning. See lines 24-28 of the at...
    4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 0 Planned for future release

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