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Ironstream™ Software for Discovery and Event Management Agent for z/OS Release Notes
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Ironstream™ software > Ironstream™ software for ServiceNow® Discovery
Ironstream™ software > Ironstream™ software for ServiceNow® Event Management
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Ironstream Discovery and Event Management Agent for z/OS
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Ironstream™ Software for Discovery and Event Management Agent for z/OS Release Notes
First publish date
2024
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2025-12-17
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2025-12-17T10:56:01.040000

Updated support for Discovery of CICS

The retrieval of information about CICS/TS environments is updated to include the latest version (V6R2).

Updated version and copyright information

The version information displayed by the agent is now updated to current Precisely standards. On startup, the agent will print the version and patch level to the SYSPRINT file, and all source code is updated to include strings that clearly state the ownership of the software.

TLS versions 1.0 and 1.1 are no longer supported

TLS v1.0 and v1.1 were deprecated in March 2021 under IETF RFC 8996 due to weak ciphers and vulnerabilities to various attacks such as BEAST and the so-called ‘Lucky Thirteen’ which exposes a timing issue in its ability to secure traffic. From v7.5.0, only TLS 1.2 or higher is supported.

Removed the third option for the capture of netstat data

The agent uses the standard netstat command to capture network information from TSO in z/OS, which requires the netstat output to be written to a dataset, and then reads the data from there. Prior to version 7.5.0, there were three ways to do this:
  • Look for a start-up parameter of TSOUTPUT <name> and use the dataset name there
  • Look for a DD name of //TSOUTPUT in the agent’s JCL and use the dataset name there.
  • Use the hard-coded name EV390.TSOUTPUT and create the dataset if necessary.
This third option is no longer available in v7.5.0.

Roll up of all the fixes issued for v7.4

The Ironstream Discovery and Event Management Agent for z/OS v7.4 had a number of fixes, which are included in the v7.5.0 release. For a full list of the fixes, see v7.4 Bug Fixes.