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RACF

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RACF ability for NO-Special-users to remove MFA from user.

We need to implement emergency procedure for MFA-users to allow access without MFA. If somebody get a call in the middle of the night, and drop the phone in the toilet before loging in … we have a serious problem. We have no Security Officers on c...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

group-SPECIAL should be sufficient to reset a password for a user with the NOEXPIRED keyword even if they the ROAUDIT attribute

group-SPECIAL should be sufficient to reset a password for a user with the NOEXPIRED keyword even if they the ROAUDIT attribute.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Protect RACF Database to prevent inadvertent deletion

System admins have priviledged access to datasets and system resources. While doing cleanup of antiquated database files an administrator inadvertently deleted the live primary and backup RACF databases causing an outage. Can the RACF task be modi...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Functionality already exists

Create an attribute that would prevent the REVOKE of a UserID due to incorrect password attempts

Requesting the creation of an attribute that would exist on the User ID that would prevent/override the User ID from being revoked due to invalid password attempts. Any successful authentications should be allowed. Unsuccessful authentications sho...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

More granular setup of healthcheck RACF_SENSITIVE_RESOURCES

Healthcheck RACF_SENSITIVE_RESOURCES covers a lot of different resources. If one of the checks fails the whole check fails. To prevent false-postive checks on this healthcheck the only option is to deactivate the healthcheck as a whole. It would b...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

Allow greater flexibility in Certificate Name Filters

The Certificate Name Filters available under RACF today are very rigid in their matching process. As a short-hand, essentially one can consider the name filter as an exact search string match that the certificate subject must contain exactly. This...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Apply RACF Conditional ACL only when in MFA fallback mode

When Using MFA, RACF conditional access lists should have the option to be applied only when the user is being authenticated in password fallback (PWFALLBACK) mode – in this case, to limit access to a terminal name prefix. (Ross Cooper suggested I...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

Allow RRSF to distinguish between ALU commands and only propagate RESUMES/PWs commands.

Allow RRSF to distinguish between ALU commands and only propagate RESUMES/PWs commands. Restrict/qualify the type of commands that can be sent across environment instead of existing all or nothing approach.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

Enable updates to RACF data set name table without sysplex IPL

Request to provide capability to update RACF data set name table without requiring a sysplex-scope IPL. If RACF data set name table has sysplex communications enabled, it installs XCF group IRRXCF00 and I must perform a full sysplex IPL to make up...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Include IRRPRMXX parms in RVARY LIST output

Request to update the RVARY LIST command's output to include all possible parameters which could be specified in the PARMLIB(IRRPRMxx) RACF data set name table member. Currently, parms such as BUFFERS, UPDATEBACKUP are not in the output; thus user...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration