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RACF Validation of External JWT for CICS Provider RESTFul and Web Services

CICS RESTFUL and WEB Services most commonly execute in provider modes, receiving messages from external sources. A facility in RACF to validate JWT for CICS Web Services and RESTFUL from externally provided JWT would enable CICS applications to be...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future 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.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Support for RACF federation with external IdP (using JWTs for authentication)

We are establishing the use of JWTs for authentication and authorization purposes. The idea is to set up an identity provider (IdP) in our internal network. In order for z/OS applications to be able to accept and acquire JWT tokens there is a need...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Create RACF resource for using parameter ONLYAT on command without beeing SPECIAL

In our customer environment, we have 3 sysplexes (test, acceptance and Production) with 3 KSystem --> 6 RACF database.Without SPECIAL attribute, it's not possible to use parameter ONLYAT on RACF cmds to address only one RACF database on a RRSF ...
almost 6 years 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.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

RACF - Autentication - Limit attempts & Record/Alert - Valid expired password/passphrase Invalid New password/passphrase

Hello, As Security RACF Administrator, we are making some tests on RACF Authentication processes and we found out following situation: After user received and attempted to put a correct expired password/passphrase because: Log into the system for ...
7 months ago in z/OS / RACF 6 Not under consideration

IRRADU00 support for IBM MFA SMF Type 83 subtype 7

IRRADU00 should support SMF Type 83 subtype 7 records created by IBM MFA. Currently, I seeIRR67654I The SMF record type 83 subtype 7 for product 5655MFA01 - IBM Multi-Factor Authentication for z/OS with FMID is unknownIRR67581I The failing record,...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future 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.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

RACF DELGROUP FORCE, and message enhancements

The usability of the RACF command DELGROUP could be improved. Also the error messages are useless and inaccurate. I want to be able to run a script to define RACF resources, and have a script to clean up. For most resources I can do this. I cannot...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Provide a means to search for categories of ICH408I messages

There are a wealth of different ICH408I messages. The different types of these seem to grow with each release. Please provide some extra numeric qualifier so that searching is enabled for specific type of ICH408I.
7 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration