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RACF

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Password Policy per user basis

Right now, we could set the following control globally. Inactive revoke, password minimum change interval Is it possible to set it down to the user level? There might be some use cases in a system that different user ID having different requiremen...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Honour the CLIST keyword on SEARCH when UID is specified

The SEARCH command in RACF does not honour the CLIST keyword if UID is specified. This is documented behaviour insofar as the manual states that all other keywords are ignored if UID is specified. However it is very unhelpful and could simply be a...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Provide logging of interactive superuser activities

Our security policy requires that the use of "privileged utilities" which includes root access (uid=0 / superuser) must provide logging of the use of the utility. This includes logging what the user is doing while in superuser mode.
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

RACF panel Display Sys Options results in Open for Output rather than input

Due to Audit requirements, we monitor datasets that are deemed critical to determine who has accessed those critical datasets and whether it is an acceptable/authorized access. We have noticed that our reports have been reporting access to the 'SY...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Allow Auditing by RACF Group

Allow auditing by RACF group. I need to audit accesses made by a specific RACF group.
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Add RACF GLOBAL Support to FASTAUTH Checks

Add RACF GLOBAL Support to FASTAUTH Checks Currently this is not supported as outlined in https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.icha700/spfgac.htm, but would lead to expanded use of GLOBAL entries to standard...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

RACF ability for NO-Special-users to remove MFA from user.

We need to implement emergency procedure for MFA-users to allow access without MFA. If somebody get a call in the middle of the night, and drop the phone in the toilet before loging in … we have a serious problem. We have no Security Officers on c...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Allow RRSF to distinguish between ALU commands and only propagate RESUMES/PWs commands.

Allow RRSF to distinguish between ALU commands and only propagate RESUMES/PWs commands. Restrict/qualify the type of commands that can be sent across environment instead of existing all or nothing approach.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

Allow greater flexibility in Certificate Name Filters

The Certificate Name Filters available under RACF today are very rigid in their matching process. As a short-hand, essentially one can consider the name filter as an exact search string match that the certificate subject must contain exactly. This...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Increase the RRSF data size limit

RRSF propagation of NVASAPDT ressources failed Try to activate the AUTOMATIC DIRECTION OF APPLICATION UPDATES in our sysplex environment, but the update for Netview Access are not sent to the other rrsf nodes. The error message is : Application up...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

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