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    Move settings of password phrase rules from ICHPWX11-exit to RACF SETROPTS

    Today we use the Exit ICHPWX11 to manage our rules for RACF Password Phrases (e.g. length of Password Phrase, valid Characters). Unfortunately the exit is not supported by IBM. A sample is delivered with SYS1.SAMPLIB, but the most current version ...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Future consideration

    Provide ACEE change correction capability

    Currently ACEECHK capabilities in RACF detect unexpected changes to the ACEE control block and its associated control blocks (TOKEN, ACEX, etc.) and issue IRR421I messages showing what has been changed. Please provide an option to change the contr...
    5 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

    Convert RACF to UTF-8

    It would be beneficial if RACF supported full UTF-8 natively, it would allow greater support for specialized characters in names and descriptions, it would also make communication with other systems much easier.
    2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

    Log RACF keyring and certificate usage to enable proper validation and auditing

    Determining whether a RACF keyring or any RACF certificate is still in use by an application (e.g., started task, batch job, etc.) is a very challenging task. Neither RACF nor other components like zERT generate SMF records that capture the usage ...
    11 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

    More Granular RACF Dataset member level access SAF checking

    We have a PDS dataset where several application encrypted password files are housed. Splitting the contents of this PDS is not easily achievable. Can RACF architecture allow for an enhancement feature that performs dataset access SAF checks at the...
    3 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Not under consideration

    Warning message for new data sets covered by a Generic Profile

    Allowing a warning period - IBM Documentation The warning message is issued for existing data sets, not for new data sets. For example, if you try to create a new data set that has the same name as a generic profile that does not give you ALTER ac...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Under review

    Need Protected ids to support passtickets

    To use passtickets the RACF id must NOT be protected. This makes those RACF ids vulnerable to password revocation denial of service attacks.
    19 days ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Under review

    Extend the passphrase length to 128 bytes.

    This will be useful for even better security.
    3 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

    Adding ONLYAT support in IRRSEQ00 and IRRSMO00

    It's not an uncommon scenario that one LPAR is in an RRSF network but needs to have differences between it and other systems, so it would be really useful if the IRRSEQ00 and IRRSMO00 callable services supported the ONLYAT keyword, so we can autom...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

    Improve RACROUTE macro for REQUEST=FASTAUTH to MNOTE on missing WKAREA

    RACROUTE REQUEST=FASTAUTH needs a second work area (WKAREA) that other requests like "auth" don't require (they just required the WORKA), the idea is to add a MNOTE, just like when the normal work area is missing:** ASMA254I *** MNOTE *** 154+ 12,...
    2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Not under consideration

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