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Support for RACF federation with external IdP (using JWTs for authentication)

We are establishing the use of JWTs for authentication and authorization purposes. The idea is to set up an identity provider (IdP) in our internal network. In order for z/OS applications to be able to accept and acquire JWT tokens there is a need...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Restrict ability to manage UNIX file security

Provide a RACF resource to limit who is allowed to change certain security attributes (primarily, owner, permission bits, and acls) of a z/OS UNIX file or directory. As with the existing FSACCESS protection, this mechanism should work at the level...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Make PassTicket Java library thread-safe

The segmentation error may occur when calling IRRRacf.jar to generate a PassTicket in Java. This happens when a Java service is under heavy load and PassTickets are generated concurrently. Could you enhance PassTicket generation in Java to be thre...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Callable service to query userid active/revoked status

Provide a callable service, possibly as a new function to r_admin to query a userid's active/revoked status. The status should take into account the user's- - Explicit revoked status - System inactive interval and last access, if not a special use...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

Cert (private key) cleanup prevention for PW envelop keys

During certificate cleanup based on expiration date, the certificate for password enveloping was deleted- No new password envelopes- No access to passwords in envelopes
over 5 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

SURROGAT with JESINPUT and NODES

We have a requirement to submit a job from zVM, comes across using the NODES class, and then use SURROGAT with WHEN(JESINPUT). This doesn't work
9 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Limit UAUDIT logging

Provide a means to limit logging by UAUDIT users. Specifically, do not log DIRSRCH events for UAUDIT users.
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

Enhance RACF so that type 80s cut for CONNECT commands are consistent

RACF should be consistent about when it cuts type 80 records for CONNECT commands. That is not the case today. We always get them when the AUTH() parameter is specified even if the connection already exists. We do not get them if we issue this typ...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

z/OS UNIX File System Audit Default Bits

Please enhance z/OS UNIX so I can set default auditing bits for both the file owner and system Auditor.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 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...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

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