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RACF

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Provide support in RACF to add and list extended key usage (EKU)

Currently RACF does not allow to add extended key usage in a certificate. It also can not list. However working with TLS 1.3, it is necessary to have clientAuth in extended key usage. It is not desired to use old Java keytool or openssl to g...
5 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Addition of Subject Altnames to IRRDBU00 Unloads

Hello, We're creating some processes around reporting of SSL certificate information which involves parsing through an IRRDBU00 for certificate info, and Subject Altnames are not currently included in that unload. We're doing it this way partly to...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

RACF throttling logon attempts before revoking

Protecting users having a password/passphrase from denial of service attack by implementing a timeout value between the failed logon attempts.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Enhancements to ACEECHK

Add clarification to IRR421I messages and granularity to the Failure option to allow for a more gradual implementation rather than a sledgehammer approach. This would benefit RACF Administrators gradually rolling out the failure option and help RA...
5 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

RACF Profiles with WARNING: Enable restriction of maximum WARNING access level for better security

Current situation:RACF-Profiles have the ability of WARNING-Option, which gives a ICH408-message, but allow the access regardless of the access rights of the User. Our idea is to enhance the WARNING option with a maximum access level parameter,lik...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Adding message indicates certificate replacement.

If RACDCERT ADD was issued against an existed certificate with same public key, it causes that your old/existing certificate to be replaced with the new one.But the output of RACDCERT ADD command doesn’t contains any info to indicate the replaceme...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

Improve Health Check for RACF_CERTIFICATE_EXPIRATION

We run ISKLM server on z/OS to maintain tape encryption keys. Expired certificates should stay in then keyring until they are not used anymore. Expired certificates possibly stay a long time in the keyring. RACF_CERTIFICATE_EXPIRATION becomes seve...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Future consideration

Please add support for generating a Certificate Signing Request with email address (/E=email@xyz.com)

Today you can't make a RACDCERT GENCERT with an email address in the SUBJECTSDN, as you can using other certificate tools. RACF supports the email address, if it comes in a Certificate from an external source like EKMF, Windows etc.. We experience...
7 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Provide mechanism to view security environment of every address space in System.

Need utility to view security environment of address spaces. This should include as a MINIMUM the RACF user assigned to the address space.However, other items such as the readable items in the ACEE, atrributes (SPECIAL, OPERATIONS and so on), POE,...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Missing RACF Statistic (last connect date) when logging on with SESSION=OMVSSRV and SESSION=APPCTP

We need to monitor, if RACF users are active. So we verify the last connect date of user's default group every night. When last connect data is older than nn days, our night job will revoke this user profile. If the user still needs this profile, ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration