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    Add an APPL parameter (application name) to internal RACROUTE REQUEST=VERIFY calls

    Add an APPL parameter (application name) for such calls so that INITSTATS can be configured to varying frequency with an APPLDATA profile to RACROUTE REQUEST=VERIFY calls internal to RACF
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

    Add support to Encryption Facility OpenPGP for OpenPGP certificates with public keys to be stored in RACF

    Support better security than keys stored in USS. We want to keep our public and private keys in our Enterprise Security Manager (ESM)/RACF. Encryption Facility provides for writing OpenPGP public keys to a USS for or to JAVA keys stores. It does ...
    about 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

    Automattic inclusion of all CA certs to a keyring

    In the case where you do not need a personal certificate on your keyring a Virtual keyrings works well. However if you have two way authentication the Virtual keyring is not useful in this case since it requires a personal certificate attached to ...
    about 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 5 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 5 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

    Support system symbolics and wildcard for RACF RALTER ADDMEM command

    Please provide RACF command RALTER's ADDMEM field to support WILDCARD or System SYMBOLIC variable for the dataset name. For example: we would like to be able to specify dataset using system symbolic; RALTER PROGRAM ** ADDMEM('AO.D9G.&SYSID..XX...
    almost 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

    Update RVARY response to distinguish RACF deactivate vs database deactivate

    This request is to get the ICH702A message/WTOR updated to be able to distinguish between RACF being deactivated and a RACF database being deactivated. Whether it is a new message or updating the text in the message does not matter. The reason for...
    over 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

    Honour the CLIST keyword on SEARCH when UID is specified

    The SEARCH command in RACF does not honour the CLIST keyword if UID is specified. This is documented behaviour insofar as the manual states that all other keywords are ignored if UID is specified. However it is very unhelpful and could simply be a...
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

    Automatic RACF SWITCH database command if a logical error occurs

    The RACF should identify a severe logical error in your database and make the automatic switch database, as happens the switch automatically when the an I/O error occurs. The switch database can be to the backup database or another.
    over 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

    To externally document return/reason codes in relocate section 443

    Currently the authentication info in byte 1 of the relocate section 443 does not differentiate between when IDs with MFA fallback are logging in when MFA started task is down and when they are logging in from a bypassed application. Having a prope...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

    Allowing first qualifyer masking in DATASET names

    Many legacy naming conventions make it difficult to establish a simplified set of commands to define DATASETS. This is specially hard in the case of sysplexes with many systems so there are DATASETS that somehow identify the system in the first qu...
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

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