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passticket support for protected userids

provide support for protected userids on RACROUTE REQUEST=VERIFY with a passticket.We have spoken with Phil Wakelin(CICS Strategy & Design)because we want to run CICS Liberty with passticket and the user will be a technical and we want that us...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Make &RACUID avail as RACF var (RACVARS) for any gen profile

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00023001User Marketing Field Requirement Number: GGSE4093002Title: Make &RACUID avail as RACF var (RACVARS) for any gen profileSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: DFNA / 972-447-029...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

r_admin source unknown in SMF records

Add requester job name to RACF records for r_admin requests
over 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

SURROGAT with JESINPUT and NODES

We have a requirement to submit a job from zVM, comes across using the NODES class, and then use SURROGAT with WHEN(JESINPUT). This doesn't work
10 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Add support to Encryption Facility OpenPGP for OpenPGP certificates with public keys to be stored in RACF

Support better security than keys stored in USS. We want to keep our public and private keys in our Enterprise Security Manager (ESM)/RACF. Encryption Facility provides for writing OpenPGP public keys to a USS for or to JAVA keys stores. It does ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

RACF: Avoid RACF Abend for a RACF TSO Comand due a missing Dynamic Parse Table

Currently RACF TSO commands (like LD, short for LISTDSD) can fail with a RACF abend if RACF "Dynamic Parse Table Initialization" either did not yet run or failed to run.RACF should be changed to return a meaningful return code (instead of abending...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

The HFS unload utility IRRHFSU should be officially supported by IBM and also made available as an assembler program.

The HFS unload utility IRRHFSU should be officially supported by IBM and also made available as an assembler program.
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

Add ability to place comment in auditing of RACF commands

Would like capability to add a comment type keyword on any RACF commands and have that text written to SMF record "as is". Using a new keyword common to all RACF commands. Expected typical usage will be a reason text or tracking number.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

RACF R_ticketserv callable service should allow PTKTDATA profiles qualified with group and/or userid

Currently the PTKTDATA profile provided to R_ticketserv is limited to a 1-8 characters application name. Extending this to allow profile names of the form application.group.user would allow more granularity to control who can use passickets for a ...
11 months ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

PFI0813-1627 RACF group attribute non-connectable

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: tdoerkesSubmitters Company: Finanz Informatik PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PFI0813-1627 RACF group attribute non-connectableHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent Status: RecognizedC...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration