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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...
6 days ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 1 Submitted

Multi Cloud Support for Watson Assistant for Z

Enable, ship and support as, ‘a first class environment’, support for WxA4Z in other RHOCP enabled environments – specifically Azure, AWS and Google Clouds.
13 days ago in watsonx Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

Full support for TPF and ALCS

Complete the support for managing TPF environments from WxA4Z including appropriate RAGs, MCP Server(s) and Agents. In addition, add full support (RAGs, MCP Server(s) and Agents) for ALCS ( IBM Airline Control System ) – which is a major TPF appli...
13 days ago in watsonx Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

Additional monitoring and recovery handling for WxA4Z

Add an appropriate MCP Server and Agents for WxA4Z to help monitor and manage itself. Additionally, provide a NON AI based ‘environment checker’ for a WxA4Z config and have it identify parm settings that may be ‘odd’ and/or confgs that are non-sta...
13 days ago in watsonx Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

WCA4Z On-Prem Database Documentation improvement

There have been a lot of customers wondering about the amount of research needed to be done in order to set up a WCA4Z environment using a On-Premise Database, which in many cases the documentation is not complete or clear. Setting a DB2 environme...
21 days ago in watsonx Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

Create a mechanism for tracking license consumption

IBM watsonx Assistant for Z needs to be able to provide audit-ready claiming over users with access, from a license standpoint, for the available seats. Along with controls to control maximum seats allowed per appliance and provide controls over u...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Assistant for Z 0 Under review

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 ...
about 2 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 0 Under review

Enable Support for Multiple RACF Databases and RRSFs in watsonx Assistant for Z

Many IBM Z environments are designed with multiple RACF databases and RRSF configurations, often segmented by LPAR, sysplex, or environment type (e.g., production, development, test). Today, watsonx Assistant for Z supports connectivity to only a ...
2 months ago in watsonx Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Enable Multi-Tenancy Support with a Single Chat Interface in watsonx Assistant for Z

Customers with multiple corporate divisions, geographic regions, or environments typically operate separate IBM Z infrastructures (LPARs, sysplexes, networks, and data domains) under distinct accounts. Today, these scenarios require multiple watso...
2 months ago in watsonx Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Enable WxA4Z security integration directly with z/OS SAF/ESM (and not Zowe)

Enable WxA4Z security integration directly with z/OS SAF/ESM (and not Zowe) Currently, the security integration for WxA4Z with z/OS is designed through the Authorization Service that will integrate using Zowe API ML. This poses a challenge with Cu...
2 months ago in watsonx Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release