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    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.
    11 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...
    11 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...
    11 days ago in watsonx Assistant for Z 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 ...
    about 2 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 0 Under review

    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...
    20 days ago in watsonx Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

    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

    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

    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

    Enable Agents to Access Mainframe Systems as User Surrogates in watsonx Assistant for Z

    To maintain robust auditing and compliance on mainframe systems, it is critical to track both the real user identity and the agent identity when actions are performed. Currently, there is no mechanism for agents to act on behalf of a user while pr...
    4 months ago in watsonx Assistant for Z 0 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

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