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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

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

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

Add CHMOD step to jcl from "6.9. Configure the Web API Server" and "7.1. Configure the z/OSMF Plugin"

When importing the plugin, the zosmf stc user needs write/execute permission on /global/izbr/api/plugin/app to create the symbolic link from /global/zosmf/zoswfx1/data/externalapps/izbr-ui. When running jcl from "6.9. Configure the Web API Server"...
5 months ago in IBM Z Batch Resiliency 0 Under review

Add JWT option to Step 6.4. Configure SSO with z/OSMF for Web API setup

This step requires to input the zosmf LTPA keys file name. IZBR/ZOSMF also supports use of JWT, but the workflow only supports use of LTPA.In "review instructions" panel that follows, it does mention "If z/OSMF is configured to use some other auth...
5 months ago in IBM Z Batch Resiliency 0 Under review

Filter possibility on the zosmf plugin Resiliency Dashboard

This dashboard is very usefull for DEVOPS personnel, in our case handling banking applications. A devops person can add a widget to it's dashboard. For Db2 tables there is a possibility to filter on Db2 subsystem name. The user now sees the statis...
5 months ago in IBM Z Batch Resiliency 0 Under review

USERMAC needs to be able to be part of a deployable software stack

Requirement: All configuration files need to be under version control. Software is not to be configured locally on a sysplex in our shop, but implemented by distributing a (subset of a) software stack through a secured pipeline from a SMPE sysplex...
5 months ago in IBM Z Batch Resiliency 0 Under review

Be able to throttle incoming trafic rates based in USEID using CEX

We believe it would be beneficial to implement a mechanism that allows throttling of incoming transaction rates in IMS based on the associated user ID. This approach would help safeguard the system against excessive workloads and enable more preci...
5 months ago in IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Legthen the syslog receiver address.

We have an automatically generated DNS scheme that creates Domain Names longer than the allowed field in the Unix Syslog Receiver address(es) area. It is possible others may have multiple IP addresses or long names as well, thus the current limita...
6 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 1