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RACF

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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

An AD to ESM mapping mechanism for objects and actions with a RESTful API interface

All of the front-end and orchestration tools work off Active Directory authorizations. There is no connection between any AD entitlements and the resources on the mainframe environment. To prevent a man in the middle attack there is a need to crea...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future 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

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.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 7 Not under consideration

Native REST API for Administration and Reporting against RACF Databases

A native REST API for administration and reporting against RACF would be extremely helpful for automation and product flexibility. Example functions would be CRUD against user ID's/OMVS segments, CRUD for dataset/resource rules, and modifying grou...
11 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future 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

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

RRSF TCPIP stack affinity

We use RRSF on LPARs with multiple TCPIP stacks. Currently there is no way to set stack affinity so that RACF only binds to a particular stack. Without stack affinity, outbound RRSF connections initiated from a system with multiple TCPIP stacks ma...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Future 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