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Empowering conditional access to general resources through privileged programs

Some resources different from DATASET also should be accessed through allowed programs. This would allow a refined access to some sensitive resources such as those under SURROGAT (for example, USER1 can submit a job in the name of USER2 only if th...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

Allowing program name masking in conditional access to DATASETS

Multiple program names are allowed in the parameter WHEN(PROGRAM(...)) in the PERMIT command. However this is not practical if many programs starting with the same first characters are to be specified in the list or if a new program, also starting...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Intelligent refresh after a new user/group is added to a resource access list.

After adding an user or group to a resource access list a SETROPTS REFRESH for the class to which the resource belongs is required. This has a huge impact on performance depending on the resource class.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Add Ability to Honor Password History to ALU PASSWORD Command

Performing an ALTUSER command allows users to reset their password to one of their historic passwords. Please enhance the command with an option to honor the history or issue a warning when there is a collision with a password in the history.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Depository Trust and Clearing Corp

Enhance ADDUSER and DELUSER commands so that they go into supervisor state to update SYS1.BRODCAST on the command issuer's behalf.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Enhance RACF so that ALTUSER UserID OWNER is a noop if the OWNER is already set

Please enhance RACF so that if someone were to issue:ALTUSER BRUCE OWNER(MARKN) and also if UserID BRUCE already has an OWNER of MARKN then an ICH message is issued that nothing has been modified instead of just modifying the owner again.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Check ICHPWX01 Password Exist on ADDUSER Command

We'd like the same potential functionality as ALTUSER on ADDUSER where if a password is specified on the command it is checked by the password exit ICHPWX01, if present. This is currently documented as working as designed http://www.ibm.com/suppor...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

RRSF & RACF LAST-ACCESS field

In our case we have 2 DB racf connected By RRSF.We have the same userids defined in both RACF database.Until some months ago if one userid loggin-on in one database without loggin in the second one, the Last-access field was updated. So the first ...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Enhance RACFVARS for the STARTED class so I can use variables anywhere

Please enhance RACFVARS so that I can code something like &ENV in the first qualifier of the started class profile and have the next char after the variable name be another char.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

IRRSMO00 support to fully delete GROUPs

I need the R_SecMgtOper (IRRSMO00) support to a delete groups even when there are subgroups present and/or users connected to the group. This support must be ESM agnostic such that we can expect ACF2 and TSS to implement it as well. The preferred ...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

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