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    Prevent User to be revoked from a RRSF side because of inactivity on this side

    We have a RACF RRSF network via our sysplexs. We have users who usually only logon in one sysplex. However, in rare situations it can happen that the same user has to logon in another sysplex. RRSF synchronizes the password for this user, but the ...
    8 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

    Check that RVARY password is regularly changed by administrator

    In order to keep systems secure and avoid static unchanged password for RVARY commands it would be nice if we could audit the fact when RVARY password was last changed. In past it was visible that hash in RCVT changed, for security reasons is no l...
    6 months ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

    Connect command shouldn't have a default owner

    Problem When you do connects in RACF and don't specify an owner it will default to the user id of whoever executed the command, this should be changed as it is not secure and can negatively affect uptime. This becomes an issue if a security admini...
    7 months ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

    RACF to use SYS1.RACFDB ( read only) and User.racfdb (R/W)

    I use zD&T( or zPDT) to provide my z/OS system. Every 6 months there is an updated version of ADCD (turn key z/OS solution) available with new catalog, and new RACF database etc. To migrate to this I have to find all the changes I made to my c...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Under review

    Allow user ID that authenticate with passticket to not have to set a password.

    Currently user ID that use passticket for authentication still have to set a password in RACF even if it is never used. This creates overhead managing a password and renewal of the password where non-expiry passwords are not permitted. This reques...
    9 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

    Anticipating RACF profiles that reaching maximum size

    IRR411I message indicates when a profile reached the maximum output size that RACF can handle (65 535 bytes), but it is not possible to know the real size of a profile at a given moment to anticipate this situation. Would it be possible to impleme...
    almost 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

    Support for Large Block Interface in IRRADU00

    By enabling LBI for OUTDD (or XMLFORM), IRRADU00 would spend less CPU time on I/O processing, thereby potentially increasing throughput. Also, data compression on tape would be more efficient when storing large OUTDD data sets.
    3 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

    Improve R_ADMIN/IRRXUTIL to return empty segments

    For example, when processing dataset profiles and extracting DFP segments, empty DFP segments are not returned. Empty DFP segments can be DFP segments with NODATAKEY to exclude some datasets from z/OS dataset encryption and they are not returned w...
    5 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

    Dual control functionality (4 eyes principle) in RACF

    Since IBM itself endorses that mainframe too is vulnerable to hacking, and setting up various defences is more crucial than ever, we are looking for additional ways to properly protect our mainframe environment from potential misuse of mainframe a...
    9 months ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Future consideration

    Change authorization to the LISTDSD and RLIST commands and remove access from ID without any privileges.

    The current access to the LISTDSD/RLIST commands allow TSO users to build an access list of all dataset and resource it has access to. This allow the ID to explore any mistake in RACF rule and build attack vectors without logging. remove the follo...
    5 months ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

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