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RACF

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Provide list-of-groups functionality for access checking RACF NODES profiles

Submitted By: SHARE-z/OS Systems Programming Submitted Date: 07/12/2023 Submitter Name: Arthur J Gutowski (Mainframe Engineer) Submitter Email: Arthur.Gutowski@huntington.com Description: Provide the capability for RACF to validate access to NODES...
25 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

Define the conflicting certificates have same public key within RACF database

RACF database should have certificates with same public key to be defined. As long as certificates have different serial number, they should be consider as different certificates. Since Digicert has created two intermediate CA which have different...
11 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

IRR.PASSWORD.RESET profile should be provide more flexibility

CONTROL access to the profile permits to a user to: 1) Reset a password with NOEXPIRED operand or 2) Reset the password or password phrase within the minimum change interval for a user who does not have the SPECIAL, OPERATIONS, AUDITOR, or PROTECT...
8 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Provide support in RACF to add and list extended key usage (EKU)

Currently RACF does not allow to add extended key usage in a certificate. It also can not list. However working with TLS 1.3, it is necessary to have clientAuth in extended key usage. It is not desired to use old Java keytool or openssl to g...
2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Enhancements to ACEECHK

Add clarification to IRR421I messages and granularity to the Failure option to allow for a more gradual implementation rather than a sledgehammer approach. This would benefit RACF Administrators gradually rolling out the failure option and help RA...
2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

IRRDBU00 / RACF Unload Support zMFA Settings

The zMFA Settings that are specified in zMFA ISPF applications are stored in the RACF database, as far as we see, in JSON format. Currently, IRRDBU00 supports the unload of zMFA Factors and policies, but not zMFA settings. IRRDBU00 should be enhan...
6 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

RACF - Postprocessing data for REQ=FASTAUTH

While using IBM zSecure Access Monitor to create access reports, it's currently not possible to properly report on CL(PROGRAM) even with the 'OPTION CAPTUREPROGRAMS' enabled. That seems to work as designed as documented here and here. Access Monit...
4 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Create New SMF Record subtype for ACEECHK Warnings

When enabling ACEECHK class in RACF to detect ACEE modification detection events, only IRR421I is issued to the syslog. This request is to have a SMF80 subtype record created to log these events so they can be easily researched among recent or arc...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

RACF RACDCERT should support PDS(E) and zFS as well as sequential data sets

RACDCERT ADD, CHECKCERT, GENREQ etc. require a unique sequential dataset. Usability would be improved if RACF supported a PDS or PDSE member, or even a zFE file.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

Password changes via RRSF should be logged in the target system

If a password is changed by a user and setropts audit(user) is active, an SMF data record of type 80 is written.If the new password is passed on to a target system via RRSF, the password change is not logged in the target system. There is no SMF r...
8 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

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