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Changes on USER's profile to take effect without requiring re-login of an already logged-on user

This will be useful as it eliminates the need for a already logged user to log out and log back in after changes on user's profile (e.g. connected groups) .
3 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Change authorization to the LISTDSD and RLIST commands and remove access from ID without any privileges.

The current access to the LISTDSD/RLIST commands allow TSO users to build an access list of all dataset and resource it has access to. This allow the ID to explore any mistake in RACF rule and build attack vectors without logging. remove the follo...
4 months ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

RACF certificate mirroring for z/OS Unix

More and more tools are being ported to z/OS that cannot interface with RACF, which is annoying because sometimes RACF already has some of the certificates these tools need in a keyring. It would be cool if we could somehow define that a keyring s...
4 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Setropts option to set default owner

It would be nice if setropts had a way to set the default owner in case a security administrator doesn't specify one.
4 months ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

Set RVARY password encryption as default

I just learned today that you have to explicitly tell RACF you want the RVARY password encrypted with the KDFAES positional, why is this not done by default? Doesn't seem like it would hurt anything to force everyone to use encryption on their dat...
4 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Check that RVARY password is regularly changed by administrator

In order to keep systems secure and avoid static unchanged password for RVARY commands it would be nice if we could audit the fact when RVARY password was last changed. In past it was visible that hash in RCVT changed, for security reasons is no l...
5 months ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

RACF - Autentication - Limit attempts & Record/Alert - Valid expired password/passphrase Invalid New password/passphrase

Hello, As Security RACF Administrator, we are making some tests on RACF Authentication processes and we found out following situation: After user received and attempted to put a correct expired password/passphrase because: Log into the system for ...
6 months ago in z/OS / RACF 6 Not under consideration

Connect command shouldn't have a default owner

Problem When you do connects in RACF and don't specify an owner it will default to the user id of whoever executed the command, this should be changed as it is not secure and can negatively affect uptime. This becomes an issue if a security admini...
6 months ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

Provide a means to search for categories of ICH408I messages

There are a wealth of different ICH408I messages. The different types of these seem to grow with each release. Please provide some extra numeric qualifier so that searching is enabled for specific type of ICH408I.
6 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Remove LNOTES segment from RACF

The LNOTES is virtually unused and irrelevant in the modern business. If we removed it would be easier to create products and APIs around RACF, it would also be less information new-to-z people would have to deal with.
7 months ago in z/OS / RACF 6 Not under consideration

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