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RACF

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Provide mechanism to view security environment of every address space in System.

Need utility to view security environment of address spaces. This should include as a MINIMUM the RACF user assigned to the address space.However, other items such as the readable items in the ACEE, atrributes (SPECIAL, OPERATIONS and so on), POE,...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Enhance IRRXUTIL/R_admin to support DIGTCERT/DIGTCERT

I would like to see the R_admin/IRRXUTIL interface enhanced to support the "non-standard" RACF classes DIGTCERT and DIGTRING, this would allow administrators to extract all digital certificate info using IRRXUTIL without needing to rely on using I...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

List all SEGMENTS from LISTUSER or LISTGRP command

Using RACF Commands LISTUSER and LISTGRP there is no way to list all the segments on the User ID or Group without listing each segment name on the command. The request is to allow the use of ALL on the LISTUSER or LISTGRP command to list all segme...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Additional Authority needed on RACF Classes

Class Authority allows a userid to create profiles in a RACF class owned by themselves or another but they can only see profiles they either have at least READ access to or own. Only a user with SPECIAL can see all profiles in a class, there needs...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Prevent the user to activate all RACF cdt classes trying to list the active options

The way RACF is designed today, it doesn't allow an user to filter sort of options it has in effect. For example, if I want to list only the active classes, there isn't a filter for that suggesting I should use SETROPTS LIST to list everything. Th...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

Copy the DFP Segment when creating a new Dataset Profile using ADDSD command with the FROM parameter.

We are implementing Pervasive Encryption on our disk datasets by using the CSFKEYS class and the DFP Segment on the dataset profile. Lets say you have a profile PRDZZ.** and that profile has a DFP segment of DFP(ZZ.SMS.XYZ123). If I need to create...
3 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

auditing of certificate usage

Provide a means of auditing usage of specific certificates.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Reduce CPU time for UNIX file security especially if you have FSACCESS on

Please enhance FSACCESS and UNIX file system access so it stops draining our engines. I would suggest adding a cache so that FSACCESS doesn't hammer RACF with calls ever single time anything traverses a directory or touches a file.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 7 Not under consideration

RACF batch utility to cleanup expired certificates

To Develop a RACF utility to cleanup/delete expired certificates in the RACF database with parameters specifying the expiration date & older.The date parameter specification/s can be a (-) minus 365 days from the current date. Just to elaborat...
7 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Program control and system symbols

Hello Our colleagues make intensive use of system symbols when they install new softwareor do some maintenance. They can use it also for APF libraries and so on. Now we are struggling when we want make use of system symbols for program controlled ...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration