Integration between IBM Security zSecure Audit 1.13.0 and QRadar SIEM 7.0 has become generally available on July 31, 2012.   This integration allows sending z/OS, RACF, ACF2, Top Secret, DB2, and CICS events from the System Management Facilities (SMF) log to QRadar SIEM. zSecure Audit enriches the event data with information from the security database and system snapshot (CKFREEZE) information.   QRadar SIEM   QRadar SIEM is a next-generation Security Information and Event Management solution by Q1 Labs . It... [More]

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Java is one of the most well-known and used programming languages today, which makes Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) integral in today’s application programming.  When working with a JVM, you will undoubtedly encounter performance issues at some point.  When these problems arise, the thread data provided by the IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE on z/OS Monitoring Feature for JVM can be invaluable in resolving the issue.                JVMs split work across multiple threads... [More]

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Hello everyone,   I hope this note finds you well.  Thanks for your attendance of the previous PARMGEN customer open Q&A teleconference call held on Wednesday, January 28th.    For February (2/23/2015 - 2/26/2015), thank you for attending the InterConnect 2015 Conference in Las Vegas, as well as the OMEGAMON z/OS Customer Advisory Council (zCAC) in the same venue.  The PARMGEN lab. guide from the PARMGEN 5644 open lab . hosted @ InterConnect, is now available for download in the master PARMGEN technote... [More]

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Hello everyone, Happy New Year!  I hope this note finds you well.   Thanks for your attendance of the previous PARMGEN customer open Q&A calls held on Oct. 29th and Nov. 19th last year.   We are scheduling the next monthly PARMGEN customer call planned to be held on Wednesday, Jan. 28th @ 11 a.m. US ET . For our new attendees, the monthly PARMGEN customer call's goal is to have an informal, open Q&A forum especially those in the planning and configuration phases of upgrading to OMEGAMON Performance... [More]

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Version 3.0 of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) has become available on November 7, 2013 . Updates to IBM   Sec u rit y  zS e cur e  2 . 1 to extend the Compliance Testing Framework with PCI-DSS support have become available on November 22, 2013. A PCI-DSS option has been added to the rule-based auditing (AU.R) part of the User Interface. A data classification member has been added to the site customization to declare the presence of primary account numbers or sensitive authentication data,... [More]

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Integration between IBM Security zSecure Audit 2.1 and IBM InfoSphere Guardium 9.1 is set to be available on October 25, 2013. zSecure Audit analyzes the protection of DB2 objects by RACF and internal security and makes these available to Guardium. Guardium includes new entitlement reports and delivers over 60 new vulnerability tests. Background Mainframes continue to be the home for mission critical information and essential business production applications in many organizations due to the strong... [More]

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The OMEGAMON Enhanced 3270 workspaces delivered in OMEGAMON XE for Mainframe Networks v5.1.0 were created under the guidance of network SME's. The workspaces enable problem solving scenarios "designed for mainframe network experts, by mainframe network experts." To showcase the new function, we built a set of viewlets:   What's New in OMEGAMON XE for Mainframe Networks Version 5.1.0 : This video provides a description of new functionality you can expect to find in Version 5.1.0 of OMEGAMON XE for Mainframe Networks. It is... [More]

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Recently got a note from Christopher Walker of the OMEGAMON for CICS on z/OS development team that our colleagues on the CICS Tools team in Hursley recently celebrated a birthday.   As an aside, here is something that I was not aware of, the CL/CONFERENCE and CL/SUPERSESSION tools are marked as part of the CICS Tools porfolio.   FYI:  The CL/CONFERENCE tool provides the capability to transmit the screen image of a VTAM application to others in your network. So, if you are having problems, an authorized member of the support staff can look at... [More]

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IBM   CIC S  Tr a nsa c tio n  Se r ver   for   z/O S  V5 . 4 has become generally available on June 16, 2017. Toleration fixes for zSecure 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.2.0, and 2.2.1 have been made available on June 23, 2017. A new field is introduced to report on the terminal read timeout for a CICS transaction.   Background IBM Security zSecure can detect security settings for CICS regions and report on CICS transactions and programs, and can process CICS security events. ISPF menu option RE.C displays information about... [More]

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A Service Stream Enhancement (SSE)  for IBM Security zSecure 2.2.1 has been made available on April 19, 2017 to provide support for new DB2 12 features. These include DB2 region settings, new SMF log record event subtypes, and a new DB2 object privilege.   Background IBM Security zSecure suite builds on the security support in z/OS and  IBM Resource Access Control Facility (RACF) to enhance mainframe security capabilities. Some components of the zSecure suite also support CA-ACF2 and CA-Top... [More]

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A Service Stream Enhancement (SSE) has been made available for the Access Monitor component of zSecure Admin 2.2.1 on March 30, 2017 to enable analytics processing. Insight Pack 3 for IBM Operations Analytics for z Systems (IOAz) 3.1 was made available around the same time, enabling IOAz to process Access Monitor statistics.   Background IBM  Secu rity  zSe cure  sui t e can help you protect your enterprise, detect threats, comply with policy and regulations and reduce costs. Most... [More]

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Join us on March 30, 2017 11 EDT as Dean Butler the Lead Developer will present the next webcast in our series.   z/OS systems management experts rely on having fast and accurate information about their enterprise to quickly identify problems, locate the root cause and take  the appropriate actions. The OMEGAMON Enhanced 3270UI is the strategic interface for these subject matter experts to manage their z/OS infrastructure and key subsystems. To help new users become familiar with the Enhanced 3270UI we have planned a series of... [More]

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New in OMEGAMON for JVM on z/OS v540, a feature for diagnosing potential native memory exhaustion has been delivered.  An OutofMemoryError condition can occur for several reasons, one of which is when a JVM has run out of native memory in the address space.   When the JVM starts, memory for the initial Java heap size is allocated (specified by the -Xms Java option). For a 64-bit JVM this is usually above the bar (>2Gb) memory. For a 31-bit JVM this memory is allocated from 31-bit addressable memory (the “extended... [More]

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IBM Security zSecure suite 2.2.1 was announced on October 25, 2016 with a planned availability date of December 9, 2016. You can read the US announcement letter here . This release provides live SMF event streaming to IBM Security QRadar SIEM, enhanced alerting capability in zSecure Alert based on specific access events captured by zSecure Admin Access Monitor, improved scalability through exploitation of 64-bit addressing mode, new policies in zSecure Command Verifier including the ability to link denial of access to an external... [More]

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