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RACF

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auditing of certificate usage

Provide a means of auditing usage of specific certificates.
over 8 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...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 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.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 7 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...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 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...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 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 ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

Change DSMON to repot on dynamically loaded RACF exits

I'm sure this was been asked before and will probably be rejected BUT it would be nice for program ICHDSM00 to be able to report on and handle dynamically loaded RACF exits.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

RRSF: Password/passphrase re-synchronization

With the implementation of RRSF, it is possible to synchronize a user's password/passphrase between different RACF databases. Due to various technical reasons, sometimes a user's password/passphrase may get out of sync in such a RRSF environmen...
4 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Enhance RACF so a Passticket Only UserID is possible

Please enhance RACF so that we have a new attribute of let's call it PASSTICKET or PASSTICKETONLY We use passtickets and for security reasons don't want the UserIDs to also have to have a password.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

HealthCheck for RACF Class PROGRAM

In RACF-Class PROGRAM there are PROFILEs with MEMBER-Definitions,for example Profile ** with Members (for example) DB2.OLD.VERSION.SDSNLOAD.I would likte to get an automatic health-check of this RACF-Class. Maybe an Extention to IBMRACF,RACF_SENSI...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

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