Compliance with the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)

You can configure IBM Z Workload Scheduler to comply with Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) standard over SSL secured connections.

You can configure IBM Z Workload Scheduler to activate FIPS 140-2 compliance when scheduling end-to-end with z-centric agents or with fault-tolerant agents, and in communications between the controller and the following interfaces: tracker, server, datastore, remote ISPF dialog, program interface (PIF). To do so, you must configure the parameter named ENABLEFIPS in the TCPOPTS and/or HTTPOPTS initialization statements of the IBM Z Workload Scheduler controller.