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Distributed Identity Mapping Support for JWT Token Subject

As of today, when using JWT Token with RACF, the subject is documented to be required to be the RACF Userid. As such the RACF userid must be known to the creator of the JWT Token.RACF JWT support should be enhanced to allow to send a users X.500 D...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Use of System Symbolics on Library names in the Program Class

Properly maintaining the Libraries listed as ADDMEMs in the PROGRAM class can be quite cumbersome when LINKLIST changes are made in the environment. Ensuring that the libraries are current is a foundation of using program level security to protect...
over 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...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Add a set of return codes in RACF r_secmgtoper documentation for empty non-boolean character fields

r_secmgtoper does not validate a field that has no field data in it, and creates an ALTUSER racf command with an empty field. The field is not suffixed with parenthesis to indicate the absence of field data. If the call is made without an EXECUTE ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 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 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 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 5 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

Provide better messaging and prevent hang situation in dynamic RRSF main switching

Prevent blocking situations when user is starting a RRSF dynamic main switch if conditions of empty inmsg data sets is not met. Currently it is difficult to detect what the reasons are if a RRSF dynamic main switch is not completed. IBM should try...
over 1 year 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 11 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

Add an APPL parameter (application name) to internal RACROUTE REQUEST=VERIFY calls

Add an APPL parameter (application name) for such calls so that INITSTATS can be configured to varying frequency with an APPLDATA profile to RACROUTE REQUEST=VERIFY calls internal to RACF
11 months 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 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

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