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Allow RACF Containment to support RACF subplexes

We have a sysplex with > 1 RACF sublexes. there may be many customers who have a similar use case where they would rather limit containment within the data sharing group and not XSYS. Since ENF is used to route the event across the entire syspl...
9 days ago in z/OS / RACF Submitted

Allow adding certificates directly from unix files

This would make adding Lets Encrypt Certificates much simpler - Currently we must; - Copy certificates to files on OMVS - Translate from iso8859-1 to ebcdic ibm1047 - Allocate VB259 format PS data sets - Copy (as text) the files to the data sets -...
11 days ago in z/OS / RACF Submitted

password and passphrase to be exclusive at the userid level;

Currently it is possible for one userid to have a valid password and a valid passphrase so they can logon with either value. This tends to default the purpose of passphrases. You need to issue ALU xxxx NOPASSWORD to disable the use of a password. ...
20 days ago in z/OS / RACF Not under consideration

restrict the use of 3 or more consecutive characters in RACF passphrase exit IRRPHREX

To comply with RBC LASS requirements, we need to restrict usage of consecutive characters in passphrases as we do in passwords. The IBM IRRPWREX (password exit) exec includes the ability to restrict usage of consecutive characters by setting Pwd_n...
25 days ago in z/OS / RACF Future consideration

Add new field Last-logon or Last-used to show the actual date/time when the ID was last used/logged on. The field LAST-ACCESS is not useful because ALU command update the field.

This is useful so we know when was the last time the ID was used. (vs. the last time the ID was change (ALU or Resumed)) without a using a custom process to process SMF record and update a custom field.
27 days ago in z/OS / RACF Future consideration

Request to Add SAN Entries to CICS Certificate Without Recreating It

We need to add SAN entries to the CICS certificate, but deleting and recreating the certificate each time is disruptive to all applications since all regions use a single common certificate. Is there a way to manually add the SAN entries and perfo...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / RACF Not under consideration

Detect long ENQ and contention on back RACF Dataset, abandon use of backup

Contention caused by a long ENQ on the backup RACF dataset can cascade and interfere with necessary RACF tasks. RACF should detect a long-held ENQ on the backup dataset and abandon the backup while action can be taken to resolve the long-held ENQ ...
2 months ago in z/OS / RACF Under review

IRROPTxx should support &SYSNAME symbolic in TARGET NODE statement

reducing manual editing, this became apparent to us while adding a number of GDPS control lpars.
2 months ago in z/OS / RACF Not under consideration

control length of passphrase

Hello, Regarding PCIDSS, the minimum length of a passphrase must be 12 charactersTo control the minimum length of the passphrase, we have to code an exit ICHPWX11 We'd like a RACF parameter to check that as this is done for the control of the leng...
2 months ago in z/OS / RACF Needs more information

RACF: Enforce SMF Type 80 Logging for Every ACEE Creation

Problem Statement RACROUTE REQUEST=VERIFY allows calling applications to suppress RACF SMF logging via STAT=NO or LOG=NONE, meaning security administrators cannot guarantee every authentication event is recorded. The RACF Auditor's Guide itself wa...
2 months ago in z/OS / RACF Future consideration

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