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RACF

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Add Support for Fast Replication / Flash Copy for backup of the RACF Database

Provide a method to backup the RACF Database that takes advantage of the current utilities that perform Fast Replication/Flash Copies where the backups are more instantaneous.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 8 Future consideration

Preventing ICH14081I Warning Message

ICH14081I message is issued when RACF encounters a duplicate class name in the dynamic class descriptor table and the installation-defined class descriptor table (module ICHRRCDE). The class attributes in the dynamic class table override any class...
7 months ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

RACF Trace to trace only nonzero return codes

I can enable RACF trace for a job, but it captures so many records, and it is hard to find the records of interest. I would like to see a new option #SET TRACE(NONZERO) which produces only exit records where the return code was non zero.
5 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

RACF: Establish a Permission Create Date

This idea goes along with ZSECURE-I-566. The zSecure suite has several toolsets to cleanup the RACF DB. One area of cleanup is unused/inactive permissions. Access Monitor does track when a permission has been used and provides a tool to remove the...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

RACF throttling logon attempts before revoking

Protecting users having a password/passphrase from denial of service attack by implementing a timeout value between the failed logon attempts.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Have "LU userid NORACF OMVS" show all OMVS fields

Unlike all other fields, the MEMLIMIT and SHMEMMAX fields are not shown unless an explicit value is set. This inconsistent behavior is confusing, and makes that you only learn about their existence when you stumble upon their definition in the docs.
6 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Addition of Subject Altnames to IRRDBU00 Unloads

Hello, We're creating some processes around reporting of SSL certificate information which involves parsing through an IRRDBU00 for certificate info, and Subject Altnames are not currently included in that unload. We're doing it this way partly to...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future 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...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

It will be useful, the standard PERMIT command syntax include a WHEN clause for time-based conditions.

Use Case 1: Restricting Access During Business Hours Scenario 1: A company wants to restrict certain administrative commands during business hours to prevent unauthorized changes while employees are working. Example: PERMIT EZB.INITSTACK.SYSA.TCPI...
7 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Adding message indicates certificate replacement.

If RACDCERT ADD was issued against an existed certificate with same public key, it causes that your old/existing certificate to be replaced with the new one.But the output of RACDCERT ADD command doesn’t contains any info to indicate the replaceme...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

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