IBM United States Software Announcement
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Server functions, and the ability to add non-z/OSMF application launch points and
links.
• IBM Health Checker for z/OS has a long history of helping to simplify and
automate the identification of potential configuration problems before they impact
system availability by comparing active values and settings to those suggested by
IBM or defined by your installation. The z/OS Health Checker is extremely valuable
not only in identifying exceptions to z/OS configurations, but also in identifying
migration actions and checking that these migration actions are completed
accurately. In addition, output reports from the z/OS Health Checker may be used
to support your corporate compliance. For example, z/OS Health Checker reports
can help identify unsecured resources that should be RACF® protected, can help
validate the redundancy in a Parallel Sysplex configuration, and could be used as
part of risk assessment exercises.
For z/OS V1.12 z/OS Health Checker is planned to be updated with the ability to
write checks in Metal C, and with the addition of checks for Parallel Sysplex (such
as best practices for coupling facility structure size, couple data set specification
limits, Sysplex Failure Manager policies, and coupling facility allocation), SMB
server, DFSMS
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, I/O Supervisor, TCP/IP IPv4 and IPv6 usage, HFS to zFS
migration, and still others.
• There are additional ease-of-use enhancements planned to help prevent
JCL errors from duplicate temporary data set names, simplify Language
Environment® and zFS migration, simplify RMF
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processing, improve
performance, and create a customized view for the Library Server.
Details on the ease-of-use and platform-simplification enhancements intended for z/
OS V1.12:
• The following functions are planned for z/OSMF V1.12:
– The z/OSMF Configuration Assistant for z/OS Communications Server is planned
to:
-- Support the configuration of IKE version 2.
-- Enforce RFC4301 compliance for IPSec filter rules.
-- Support the configuration of certificate trust chains and certificate revocation
lists.
-- Support the configuration of new crytographic algorithms for IPSec and IKE.
-- Support the configuration of FIPS 140 cryptographic mode for IPSec and IKE.
– WLM Policy Editor functionality to be integrated into z/OSMF V1.12 will facilitate
the creation and editing of WLM service definitions, installation of WLM service
definitions, and activation of WLM service policies, and monitoring of the WLM
status of a sysplex and the systems in a sysplex.
– A number of improvements for the Incident Log function including support
for encryption of all incident files, including dumps, to be sent to IBM,
breaking dumps into multiple data sets that can be sent via FTP in parallel
to reduce transmission time, specifying additional data sets to an incident
and adding free-form comments to new fields for problem descriptions and
FTP destinations. Incident Log will also support the creation of diagnostic
log snapshots based on the SYSLOG and LOGREC data sets, as well as the
OPERLOG and LOGREC sysplex log streams. These enhancements are intended
to help you manage problem data more easily.
– An interface to allow the addition of non-z/OSMF launch points and links to the
navigation tree.
– z/OSMF is planned to support Microsoft® Internet Explorer 7 and Internet
Explorer 8, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, and Firefox 3.5.
• The Health Checker framework is enhanced to allow health checks to be registered
without a message table and for them to issue messages directly without using a
message table. This makes it easier to write health checks quickly.
• The Health Checker framework is planned to provide headers to enable you to
write health checks using Metal C, in addition to existing support for High-Level
Assembler and REXX
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. Providing high-level language support can make it easier
