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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...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Create an attribute that would prevent the REVOKE of a UserID due to incorrect password attempts

Requesting the creation of an attribute that would exist on the User ID that would prevent/override the User ID from being revoked due to invalid password attempts. Any successful authentications should be allowed. Unsuccessful authentications sho...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

RACF RVARY password should have additional control point

Please enhance RACF so that the RVARY STATUS & SWITCH passwords are not the sole control point on this command.Alternatively think up an entirely new more 21st century approach to replace the RVARY password with completely.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

RACF Password Settings need to include Complexity, Examples: 1. To prevent the use of 3 repeating or sequential characters. 2. Avoid specific words such as User Name / Name of Service. 3. Prevent the use of passwords obtained from previous breaches.

Audit requires ability for specific Complexity settings as listed in my Idea above and beyond RACF specific Password settings. Examples: 1. To prevent the use of 3 repeating or sequential characters. 2. Avoid specific words such as User Name / Nam...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

RACF database recovery utility

In the case of primary database in error with no backup database, after restoring a copy from dump, maybe we have lost some updates. In System Programmer's Guide we can find the following text: Your database is probably back-level. To bring...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

List of restricted words in password rules

There are some obvious passwords that are very easy to guess, and is important to avoid using them. The idea is to have a list of restricted words that cannot be part of a password and that RACF will not accept. This list must be configurable t...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

Empowering conditional access to general resources through privileged programs

Some resources different from DATASET also should be accessed through allowed programs. This would allow a refined access to some sensitive resources such as those under SURROGAT (for example, USER1 can submit a job in the name of USER2 only if th...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

Allowing program name masking in conditional access to DATASETS

Multiple program names are allowed in the parameter WHEN(PROGRAM(...)) in the PERMIT command. However this is not practical if many programs starting with the same first characters are to be specified in the list or if a new program, also starting...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

EXPIRATION DATE WITHIN PERMIT COMMAND

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00031904User Marketing Field Requirement Number: GD124084013Title: EXPIRATION DATE WITHIN PERMIT COMMANDSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: DFNA / 972-447-0298FPOC: Arthur Fitzpatrick/P...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

RACF: Create PARMLIB member for ICHRIN03

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0116143553User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSE13031Title: RACF: Create PARMLIB member for ICHRIN03Submitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPROJ : MVSEFPO...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

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