Change log for z/OS stock images

April 2024

New

• The z/OS dev and test stock image in the Cloud UI is now based on z/OS 3.1.0 and named as ibm-zos-3-1-s390x-dev-test-wazi-1.
• New disk layout - CICS/MQ/IMS/DB2 and SMPE target/dlibs are on two separate disk volumes.

Changed (in comparison with z/OS 2.5 Image)

• New Program Temporary Fixes (PTFs) are installed on the z/OS system and programs.
• IBM Developer for z/OS (IDz) is upgraded from v16.0.2 to v16.0.4.
• IBM Debug for z/OS is upgraded from v16.0.2 to v16.0.4.
• IBM Explorer for z/OS is upgraded from v3.3.2 to v3.3.4.
• IBM Dependency Based Build (DBB) is upgraded from v2.0.1 to v2.0.3.
• RSE API is upgraded from v1.1.2 to v1.1.4 with the JWT support enabled.
• IBM Z Open Automation Utilities (ZOAU) is upgraded from v1.2.3 to v1.2.5.
• Db2 for z/OS remains at v13.1.503 and V12.1 is removed.
• Java v17 is added and v11 is the default version. Java v8 is available in the image.
• IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go v1.21 is added to the image and is set as default by the environment variables. Go v1.20 is available in the image and v1.19 is removed.
• IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js v20 is added and v18.0 is available in the image.
• IBM Z Workload Scheduler is upgraded from v10.1.0.2 to v10.1.0.3.
• IBM z/OS Connect is upgraded from v3.0.73 to v3.0.77.
• The z/OS 2.5 image with the name ibm-zos-2-5-s390x-dev-test-wazi-7 is available in the UI.

March 2024

Changed

• The name of the z/OS 2.5 dev and test stock image is ibm-zos-2-5-s390x-dev-test-wazi-7. IBM MQ is upgraded from v9.3.3 to v9.3.5 with prerequisite/co-requisite New Program Temporary Fixes (PTFs) for the MQ installed.
• The z/OS 2.4 images with the names ibm-zos-2-4-s390x-dev-test-wazi-* are no longer available in the UI or APIs.

December 2023

Changed

• The name of the z/OS 2.5 dev and test stock image is ibm-zos-2-5-s390x-dev-test-wazi-6. New Program Temporary Fixes (PTFs) are installed on the z/OS system and programs.
• IBM Z Workload Scheduler is upgraded from v10.1.0.1 to v10.1.0.2.
• IBM z/OS Connect is upgraded from v3.0.72 to v3.0.73.
• Python v3.9.5 is removed from the image. The default version is Python v3.11.
• Java 8 is upgraded from v8.0.8.8 to v8.0.8.15. Both Java v8 and Java 11 are available in the image.
• The script for RACF certificate regeneration is updated.

October 2023

New

• IBM Wazi Deploy is added to the z/OS 2.5 dev and test stock image.

Changed

• The name of the z/OS 2.5 dev and test stock image is ibm-zos-2-5-s390x-dev-test-wazi-5. New Program Temporary Fixes (PTFs) are installed on the z/OS system and programs.
• IBM Z Open Automation Utilities (ZOAU) is upgraded from v1.2.3 to v 1.2.4.5.
• IBM z/OS Connect is upgraded from v3.0.70 to v3.0.72.

August 2023

Changed

• The name of the z/OS 2.5 dev and test stock image is ibm-zos-2-5-s390x-dev-test-wazi-4. New Program Temporary Fixes (PTFs) are installed on the z/OS system and programs.
• IBM Developer for z/OS (IDz) is upgraded from v16.0.1 to v16.0.2.
• IBM Debug for z/OS is upgraded from v16.0.1 to v16.0.2.
• IBM Explorer for z/OS is upgraded from v3.3.1 to v3.3.2.
• IBM IMS is upgraded from v15.3 to v15.4.
• IBM MQ is upgraded from v9.3.2 to v9.3.3.
• IBM z/OS Connect is upgraded from v3.0.68 to v3.0.70.
• IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go v1.20 is added to the image and is set as default by the environment variables. Go v1.19 is still available in the image.
• RSE API is upgraded from v1.1.1 to v1.1.2.
• Extended address volume (EAV) is now enabled by default.

July 2023

Changed

• The name of the z/OS 2.5 dev and test stock image is ibm-zos-2-5-s390x-dev-test-wazi-3. New Program Temporary Fixes (PTFs) are installed on the z/OS system and programs.
• IBM Dependency Based Build (DBB) is upgraded from v2.0 to v2.0.1.
• IBM z/OS Connect is upgraded from v3.0.67 to v3.0.68.
• RSE API is updated to use RACF Certificates and key rings instead of keytool and keystores.
• Some Hash-based Message Authentication Codes (HMAC) are removed from the SSH server configuration file /etc/ssh/sshd_config.
• The ".ibm.com" domain was previously appearing as the domain suffix on the output of the hostname command. It is now removed from this output.

June 2023

New

• The build date and time is added to the initial screen that you see when you connect to the instance via TN3270.
• A new TSO logon procedure DB12PROC is available if you want to use Db2 v12 SPUFI. The default TSO logon procedure for Db2 v13 SPUFI is DB13PROC.

Changed

• The name of the z/OS 2.5 dev and test stock image is ibm-zos-2-5-s390x-dev-test-wazi-2. New Program Temporary Fixes (PTFs) are installed on the z/OS system and programs.
• Db2 v12 is added back to the image. Both v12 and v13.1.503 will be started automatically by default.
• The size of the message queue data set IMS.LGMSG is increased with more available space.

May 2023

New

• The z/OS dev and test stock image in the Cloud UI is now based on z/OS 2.5 and is named ibm-zos-2-5-s390x-dev-test-wazi-1.
• Data Set File System (DSFS) is added to the image.
• IBM_DB is added to enable Python access to Db2. See sample script /u/ibmuser/runibmdb.

Changed

• New Program Temporary Fixes (PTFs) are installed on the z/OS system and programs.
• IBM Developer for z/OS (IDz) is upgraded from v16.0.0 to v16.0.1.
• IBM Debug for z/OS is upgraded from v16.0.0 to v16.0.1.
• Db2 for z/OS is upgraded from v13.1 to v13.1.503.
• IBM z/OS Connect is upgraded from v3.0.66 to v3.0.67.
• RSE API is upgraded from v1.1.0 to v1.1.1 and is switched to use Java 11.
• IBM Dependency Based Build (DBB) is switched to use Java 11.
• IBM Explorer for z/OS is upgraded from v3.3.0 to v3.3.1.
• Python v3.11 is set as default. Python v3.9.5 is still supported in the image.
• IBM Z Open Automation Utilities (ZOAU) is upgraded from v1.2.2 to v1.2.3. ZOAU is configured for Python 3.11 and 3.9.
• zUNIT port is switched to SSL port.
• The z/OS 2.4 image with the name ibm-zos-2-4-s390x-dev-test-wazi-10 is also available in the UI and is updated with security fixes only.

April 2023

Changed

• The name of the z/OS 2.4 dev and test stock image is ibm-zos-2-4-s390x-dev-test-wazi-9. New Program Temporary Fixes (PTFs) are installed on the z/OS system and programs.
• IBM MQ is upgraded from v9.3.1 to v9.3.2.
• IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go v1.18 is removed from the image. Only v1.19 is supported.
• IBM z/OS Connect is upgraded from v3.0.65 to v3.0.66.

March 2023

Changed

• The name of the z/OS 2.4 dev and test stock image is ibm-zos-2-4-s390x-dev-test-wazi-8. New Program Temporary Fixes (PTFs) are installed on the z/OS system and programs.
• IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python is upgraded from v3.10 to v3.11. Python v3.9.5 is still supported in the image.
• IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js is upgraded from v16.0 to v18.0.
• IBM z/OS Connect is upgraded from v3.0.64 to v3.0.65.
• RACF is changed to use PHRASE instead of PASSWORD for user authentication. A password phrase is a character string that consists of mixed-case letters, numbers, and special characters including blanks. For more information, see Passwords and password phrases and Specify user password or password phrase .

February 2023

New

• IBM Compiler for REXX v1.4 is added to the z/OS 2.4 dev and test stock image.
• IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go v1.19 is added to the image and is set as default by the environment variables. Go v1.18 is still available in the image.

Changed

• The name of the z/OS 2.4 dev and test stock image is ibm-zos-2-4-s390x-dev-test-wazi-7. New Program Temporary Fixes (PTFs) are installed on the z/OS system and programs.
• IBM MQ is upgraded from v9.3 to v9.3.1 and will be started by default beginning with the new image.
• IBM IMS is upgraded from v15.1 to v15.3 and will be started by default beginning with the new image. Continuous enhancements are released as PTFs, which can include one or more new IMS functions or support for new technologies or products. For more information, see IMS enhancement PTFs .
• IBM Z Open Automation Utilities (ZOAU) in IBM Developer for z/OS (IDz) v16 is upgraded from v1.2.0 to v1.2.2. ZOAU v1.1.1 is still available in the image.
• IBM Z Workload Scheduler is upgraded from v10.1 to v10.1.0.1.
• IBM z/OS Connect is upgraded from v3.0.61 to v3.0.64.

December 2022

Changed

• The name of the z/OS 2.4 dev and test stock image is ibm-zos-2-4-s390x-dev-test-wazi-6. New Program Temporary Fixes (PTFs) are installed on the z/OS system and programs.
• IBM Developer for z/OS (IDz) is upgraded from v15.0.5 to v16.0.0.
• IBM Debug for z/OS is upgraded from v15.0.5 to v16.0.0.
• IBM Explorer for z/OS is upgraded from v3.2.0.20 to v3.3.0.
• RSE API is upgraded from v1.0.10 to v1.1.0.
• IBM Dependency Based Build (DBB) is upgraded from v1.1.3 to v2.0.
• Z Open Automation Utilities (ZOAU) is upgraded from v1.1.1 to v1.2.0. ZOAU v1.1.1 is still available in the image.
• Java is upgraded from v8 to v11. Java v8 is still available in the image.
• IBM Open Enterprise Python for z/OS is upgraded from v3.9 to v3.10. Both v3.9.5 and v3.10 are supported in the image.
• The unsecured Db2 DRDA TCP/IP port 8100 is closed. All DB2 requests should use the SSL port 8102. The DB2 CLP sample is removed as it does not work over SSL Db2 Port.
• The unsecured z/OS Connect port 9080 is closed. All z/OS Connect requests should use the SSL port 9443.
• SSL is enabled for Debug Manager port 8135 via z/OS Policy Agent.
• SSL is enabled for CICS CS IP Socket port 8120 via z/OS Policy Agent.
• Weak ciphers are removed from port 992, 10443, 8137, 8154, 8194, and 8195 to improve configuration security.
• I/O definition file (IODF) on the source system is updated to support 100 storage volumes.

November 2022

New

• OMVS is added to the ISPF user panel (ISR@390U) Option 15.

Changed

• The name of the z/OS 2.4 dev and test stock image is ibm-zos-2-4-s390x-dev-test-wazi-5. New Program Temporary Fixes (PTFs) are installed on the z/OS system and programs.
• IBM z/OS Connect is upgraded from v3.0.60 to v3.0.61.
• Netview Timer is adjusted to execute every 6 hours to ensure that BPXAS spool entries are cleaned up automatically each day.
• JES2 Initialization is adjusted to increase the limit of job output elements (JOEs) and job queue elements (JQEs).

October 2022

New

• Program product libraries for IMS v15.1 are provided on volume PRDVS1 in the z/OS 2.4 dev and test stock image.
• Program product libraries for IBM MQ v9.3 Continuous Delivery are provided on volume PRDVS1 in the z/OS 2.4 dev and test stock image.

Changed

• The name of the z/OS 2.4 dev and test stock image is ibm-zos-2-4-s390x-dev-test-wazi-4. New Program Temporary Fixes (PTFs) are installed on the z/OS system and programs.
• RSE API is upgraded from v1.0.9 to v1.0.10.
• IBM Explorer for z/OS is upgraded from v3.2.0.19 to v3.2.0.20.
• IBM z/OS Connect is upgraded from v3.0.58 to v3.0.60.

August 2022

Changed

• The name of the z/OS 2.4 dev and test stock image is ibm-zos-2-4-s390x-dev-test-wazi-3. New Program Temporary Fixes (PTFs) are installed on the z/OS system and programs.
• CICS Transaction Server for z/OS is upgraded from v5.6 to v6.1.
• CICS subsystem is upgraded from CICSTS56 to CICSTS61.
• CICS software data sets are upgraded from CICSTS56.* to CICS.V6R1M0.**.
• Db2 for z/OS is upgraded from v12.1 to v13.1.
• Db2 subsystem is upgraded from DBC1 to DBD1.
• Db2 software data sets are upgraded from DB2.V12R1M0.* to DB2.V13R1M0.**.
• IBM Z NetView is upgraded from v6.3 to v6.4.
• IBM z/OS Connect is upgraded from v3.0.57 to v3.0.58.

July 2022

New

• Tape devices are supported in the z/OS 2.4 dev and test stock image.

Changed

• The name of the z/OS 2.4 dev and test stock image is ibm-zos-2-4-s390x-dev-test-wazi-2. New Program Temporary Fixes (PTFs) are installed on the z/OS system and programs.
• Enterprise COBOL for z/OS is upgraded from 6.3 to 6.4.
• Enterprise PL/I for z/OS is upgraded from v5.3 to v6.1.
• IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go is upgraded from v1.17 to v1.18.
• IBM z/OS Connect is upgraded from v3.0.56 to v3.0.57.
• IBM Developer for z/OS (IDz) is upgraded from v15.0.4 to v15.0.5.
• IBM Debug for z/OS is upgraded from v15.0.4 to v15.0.5.
• RSE API is upgraded from v1.0.8 to v1.0.9.
• IBM Explorer for z/OS is upgraded from v3.2.0.18 to v3.2.0.19.