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    Enhancement to RACF to notify when there is a prolonged contention on critical RACF resources

    We have experienced a prolonged Security Manager resources contention situation where the critical security manager resource is lockup by a low priority task while there is a higher priority task entered a spin loop and consumed all the CPUs in th...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

    To allow configured the parameter "revoked after unsuccessful password attempts" in the RACF user profile. Actually it is only possible as a generic rule for all the users through the SETROPTS PASSWORD(REVOKE(d)) command

    To avoid a DoS (Deny of Service) due a service user revoked because a wrong use of the password causing impact in the applications & services using it.
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

    Additional protection needed for critical data, in order to further prevent accidental deletion

    On August 20 our storage team caused an unfortunate issue, while cleaning a volume on the behest of the customer DB Systel. On the LPAR BLP7, an outage was caused, as the active primary and backup RACF db-s were deleted. While this was remedied an...
    about 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

    RACF command LISTDSD DSNS not working for master catalog

    Currently RACF is designed to exclude the master catalog dataset name from LISTDSD DSNS output under "CATALOGUED DATA SETS AFFECTED BY PROFILE CHANGE".
    about 5 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

    Message & SMF record needed when RACDCERT automatically replaces / deletes a certificate

    When adding a certificate to RACF that qualifies to replace an existing certificate, a message and SMF record is needed indicating that this took place. For example : "Certificate with label xxx was replaced by this certificate <with label yyy&...
    over 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

    z/OSMF enable automatic REST API TSO logoff when logging out of z/OSMF

    Currently, when using software update (and perhaps other OSMF functionality?) a TSO session is started for the REST API and it does not end when a user logs out of z/OSMF. It requires some amount of time without any activity before the session wil...
    over 2 years ago in Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE 1 Not under consideration

    Make &RACUID avail as RACF var (RACVARS) for any gen profile

    SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00023001User Marketing Field Requirement Number: GGSE4093002Title: Make &RACUID avail as RACF var (RACVARS) for any gen profileSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: DFNA / 972-447-029...
    over 11 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

    Limit UAUDIT logging

    Provide a means to limit logging by UAUDIT users. Specifically, do not log DIRSRCH events for UAUDIT users.
    over 11 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

    Display command or healthcheck for RACF use of IRRPRMxx

    We are currently converting RACF from ICHRDSNT modules to using parmlib member IRRPRMxx. While this works as designed there is no way to verify after the fact (if the historical IPL syslog/operlog is not available) if RACF is using the ICHRDSNT or...
    over 5 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

    Add a set of return codes in RACF r_secmgtoper documentation for empty non-boolean character fields

    r_secmgtoper does not validate a field that has no field data in it, and creates an ALTUSER racf command with an empty field. The field is not suffixed with parenthesis to indicate the absence of field data. If the call is made without an EXECUTE ...
    almost 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

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