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RACF

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Allow RACF digital certificate registration from Java interface

Currently the only way to allow users to self register their personal certificates, from CAC or PIV cards, is to use the ASIS self registration tool provided in SYS1.SAMPLIB(RACINSTL). While this tool works we are running into issue where browsers...
17 days ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Submitted

SMF80 record to include client IP address independent of application

z/OS is the most valuable platform in kind of security and auditing. In times of Zero Trust it must be possible to see the identiy and source of a login by a client. Currently, you've to check wich application was used to login to z/OS to find the...
20 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future 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 ...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / RACF 5 Under review

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...
about 1 month 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.
about 1 month ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

RACF Resource Serialization: Reducing Impact on Critical Processes Due to User Statistics Updates

We propose an enhancement to the RACF mainframe security product, specifically regarding the serialization of the SYSZRAC2 resource for database access. Currently, when a process holds this resource for an extended period (ranging from seconds to ...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future 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.
2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 6 Not under consideration

Prevent User to be revoked from a RRSF side because of inactivity on this side

We have a RACF RRSF network via our sysplexs. We have users who usually only logon in one sysplex. However, in rare situations it can happen that the same user has to logon in another sysplex. RRSF synchronizes the password for this user, but the ...
2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

RACF Extract API for JWTs (enhancement for ZOS-I-4417)

This is an additon for ZOS-I-4417, but it would also be usefull if it could be provided for the existing JWT validation... With RACF be able to validate JWTs, there should be a service avalable to extract the information out of the JWT after it go...
3 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Dual control functionality (4 eyes principle) in RACF

Since IBM itself endorses that mainframe too is vulnerable to hacking, and setting up various defences is more crucial than ever, we are looking for additional ways to properly protect our mainframe environment from potential misuse of mainframe a...
3 months ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Future consideration

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