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    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

    Replace legacy POSIX tools with their modern open-source equivalents

    On behalf of the zopen community... to improve usability, script portability, and developer experience on z/OS UNIX System Services, it's recommended to replace legacy POSIX tools with their modern open-source equivalents. Many default z/OS UNIX u...
    10 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 2 Future consideration

    GZIP and OpenSSL for Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS

    It would be very useful to have GZIP and OpenSSL in the Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS. It ist always good to have such basic tools at hand.
    5 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 0 Under review

    Add OpenSSL port for z/OS to Open Enterprise Foundation

    We used to have through the IBM ported tools which are no longer available. Afterwards it was included in the IDz product, the FMID included a target path with Rocket tools. But since some PTFs ago OpenSSL is no longer included. Currently there is...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 3 Future consideration

    MFA User Segment alerts

    Hello IBM, Our team thinks the addition of MFA segment related user alerts would benefit zSecure. Currently there are no alerts for adding or deleting MFA Segments on the mainframe and we believe that the addition of this alert would be beneficial...
    about 1 year ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 3 Future consideration

    GIT support for national characters in filenames

    Hi, Opening rfe to resolve issue in case TS016694999. We're having issues with git clones where filenames and paths in repos have been created with Swedish national characters in iDZ or VSCode. At clone the swedish characters are creating issues t...
    12 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 1

    Omegamon need to start to support the use of SMF

    Omegamon is dependent on NMI. This prevent other vendors to send important information to Omegamon. A simpel exempel is the sftp server from CO:Z. It can not use the NMI but can generate SMF 119 records. It is the same information as the FTP serve...
    about 1 month ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    vim and ebcdic support

    If you use the --version command on vim you can see the following (abbreviated): >vim --version|moreVIM - Vi IMproved 9.1 (2024 Jan 02, compiled Nov 6 2025 07:57:02)Included patches: 1-1830Modified by IBM_OEF_1.1.0.7Compiled by IBM_OEF_1.1.0.7N...
    3 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 1 Under review

    Allow zSecure Alert to run a REXX command when an alert is generated.

    Currently Alert will allow us to run a single "TSO/RACF" command. The list of available commands is not fully documented (There is some detail in the documentation under the CMD option on a NEWLIST). However "EXEC" is not one of the allowed comman...
    7 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 1 Future consideration

    zSecure Alert - Align Mail header for Alert 1617 with message C2P1617I

    This is to request an update in the way zSecure Alert generates the mail for the master key rotation.See attached screen print for reference. Where the message contains both key types RSA and ECC as expected.The mail body holds the same informatio...
    10 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 0 Planned for future release

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