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z/OS Contents Supervision - Request for API's/Exit Points for RACF PROGRAM Class Verification Checks

As z/OS Contents Supervision does not issue standard RACF/SAF interfaces to check profiles in the RACF PROGRAM class when loading programs/modules into storage, the IBM zSecure Admin Access Monitor does not get sight of the authorisation check as ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

CBU acctivation date when turning off a CBU

when turning off a CBU with TEMPCAP the HWI_CBUACTIVE date does not seem to clear when everything is reset. If I issue a second TEMPCAP off the value does clear. IBM says to ignore that value. I think there's a bug if it clears when I issue the co...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Not under consideration

do not depricte oocod/cbu status from CPC

IBM has told me that they plan to deprecate the items that allow us to check the CBU/OOCOD status without checking the individual records. This is a really bad idea. It will greatly complicate code if we have to check all the available records. I ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Not under consideration

Improvements in zAWARE

It is important for us, zAware being able to read from syslog, because our installation is based on SYSLOG. Also we are interesting in synergies between IMS, DB2 and MQ, and zAware. And it is really important the coexistence between zAware and GDP...
about 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 5 Not under consideration

Allow definition of user's PREFIX in RACF TSO segment

Currently, a TSO User's prefix defaults to USERID. This is not suitable in all environmentsI would like the ability to specify a PREFIX in the TSO segment (for example, to set this to the user's DEFAULT group).The prefix is stored in the UPT Contr...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / TSO 3 Not under consideration

Allow LU, LISTGRP, LISTDSD and RLIST-commands on behalf of the owner of a component

Implementation of profiles like:- IRR.LISTGRP.OWNER.owninggroup- IRR.LISTDSD.OWNER.owninggroup- IRR.RLIST.OWNER.owninggroup Userids granted to a profile IRR.LISTDSD.OWNER.$OAB should be able, to list all dataset-profiles with Owner $OAB.This shoul...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

Add a COMMENT keyword to all RACF commands

Add a COMMENT (or 'REASON' or 'TRACKING' etc) keyword to all RACF commands and place the keyword text in the SMF record for that command.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Support ECDSA Keys in Encryption Facility OPGP

We use Open PGP on z/OS and have an increasing number of 3rd parties sending in ECDSA public keys which we are currently unable to load. Supporting ECDSA keys will provide more options and enhance security.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 3 Not under consideration

Add System date and time state to List commands in RACF

We have to submit displays of our security database to auditors. Often the displays are not accepted because they lack SYSTEM, DATE and TIME information in the display.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

FTP SOCKS support of USERID/PASSWORD

We would like to implement FTP SOCKS authentication support (USERID/PASSWORD - METHOD x'02')
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

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