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My ideas: ICSF

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ICSF utility support to display CKDS/PKDS user metadata

We are interested in an enhancement for the TSO ICSF utilities used to manage keys in the CKDS and PKDS. We would like the metadata display panels to include a full dump of the metadata. Currently, the panels show the formatted metadata associated...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 2 Delivered

ICSF: Determine when key was last used for encryption

We would like a way to determine when a key was last referenced for encryption.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 2 Delivered

ICSF: Allow us to restrict ARCHIVED keys for decryption only

We want to deploy Pervasive Encryption for Datasets and do not want ARCHIVEd keys to be able to be used for encryption, just decryption.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Delivered

We would need ICSF hash service to support BCRYPT.

We opened the SFSW TS004628935 because our development team wanted to hash passwords using BCRYPT (based on Blowfish). They confirmed me that OWH hashing service cant´t use BCRYPT. They suggest me to open a RFE to ask if it is possible that ICSF h...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Delivered

Enforce Master Key "Key Parts" to be entered by different TSO userids

When master keys are changed under the ICSF panels (in ISPF), ICSF has no knowledge of whether the first, middle or last key parts were entered by the same userid.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 3 Delivered