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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...
14 days ago in z/OS / RACF Future consideration

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 -...
16 days ago in z/OS / RACF Future 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 ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF Future 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...
29 days ago in z/OS / RACF Future consideration

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 ...
10 months ago in z/OS / RACF Future consideration

RRSF - segment-level control for command propagation

Background / Current behavior We use RRSF automatic command direction to synchronize RACF profiles across multiple systems. This works well operationally. However, IBM Documentation describes AUTODIRECT control in the RRSFDATA class strictly at th...
4 months ago in z/OS / RACF Future consideration

Listuser command allows for 'enumeriation' of valid userids

As seen below. When one does a "LU <EXISTING USER>" you get the message : "NOT AUTHORIZED TO LIST IBMUSER"When the user it not present on the system, you get the message "UNABLE TO LOCATE USER ENTRY NOTHERE" It would be better if the reply i...
almost 2 years 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.
about 1 month ago in z/OS / RACF Future consideration

Have the possibility to pass directly from password to passphrase authentication when you need to change your password.

For upgrade the security, the company decides to switch from password authentication to passphrase authentication . For the moment the RACF administrator removes the password and sets up the passphrase for the UID. But the administrateur have ta s...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF Future consideration

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...
3 months ago in z/OS / RACF Future consideration

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