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RACF

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Add RACF GLOBAL Support to FASTAUTH Checks

Add RACF GLOBAL Support to FASTAUTH Checks Currently this is not supported as outlined in https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.icha700/spfgac.htm, but would lead to expanded use of GLOBAL entries to standard...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

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...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under 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.
about 5 years 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...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Increase the RRSF data size limit

RRSF propagation of NVASAPDT ressources failed Try to activate the AUTOMATIC DIRECTION OF APPLICATION UPDATES in our sysplex environment, but the update for Netview Access are not sent to the other rrsf nodes. The error message is : Application up...
almost 8 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.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

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

RACF R_ticketserv callable service should allow PTKTDATA profiles qualified with group and/or userid

Currently the PTKTDATA profile provided to R_ticketserv is limited to a 1-8 characters application name. Extending this to allow profile names of the form application.group.user would allow more granularity to control who can use passickets for a ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 2 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

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