IBM United States Software Announcement
210-008
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• z/OS Communications Server plans to enhance the digital certificate access server
(DCAS) to allow modification of the debug level without restarting the application.
Statement of general direction
In a future release, IBM plans to remove the capability to change the default
Language Environment run-time options settings via SMP/E installable USERMODs.
IBM recommends using the CEEPRMxx parmlib member to change the default
Language Environment run-time options for the system.
IBM plans to pursue an evaluation to the Federal Information Processing Standard
(FIPS) 140-2 using National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST)
Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) for the PKCS #11 capabilities of
the Integrated Cryptographic Service Facility (ICSF) component of the Cryptographic
Services element of z/OS. The scope of this evaluation will include algorithms
provided by the CP Assist for Cryptographic Functions (CPACF) that are utilized by
ICSF. This is intended to help satisfy the need for FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic
functions when using z/OS Communications Server capabilities such as the IPSec
protocol.
Plans related to Extended Address Volume (EAV) larger volume sizes as described in
5694-A01, Preview: z/OS V1.10, announced in Software Announcement
208-042
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dated February 26, 2008, will be communicated at a later date.
All statements regarding IBM's plans, directions, and intent are subject to change or
withdrawal without notice.
Product number
5694-A01
Business Partner information
If you are a Direct Reseller - System Reseller acquiring products from IBM,
you may link directly to Business Partner information for this announcement. A
PartnerWorld® ID and password are required (use IBM ID).
https://www.ibm.com/partnerworld/mem/sla.jsp?num=210-008
Important Web sites
• z/OS Web site
http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/
• General Q & A
http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/faq/
• Previously announced statements of direction
http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/zos_sods.html
• z/OS Internet Library
http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/
• z/OS Basic Skills Information Center
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zoslnctr/v1r7/index.jsp
• Descriptions of courses worldwide
http://www.ibm.com/services/learning
• z/OS downloads
http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/downloads/
• CustomPac
http://www.ibm.com/services/custompac
