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    z/OSMF - SSO should support JWT

    In our environment we are not allowed to use LTPA for authentication anymore and would rely on JWT to keep Single sign-on working in our zOSMF instances. Or even create an integration with OAuth2/OIDC.
    19 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

    Log RACF keyring and certificate usage to enable proper validation and auditing

    Determining whether a RACF keyring or any RACF certificate is still in use by an application (e.g., started task, batch job, etc.) is a very challenging task. Neither RACF nor other components like zERT generate SMF records that capture the usage ...
    11 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

    Add sudo command into the base install USS security

    Integrating sudo like Linux has would improve security by being able to use superuser privileges on a case-by-case basis rather than having all of your commands be superuser authorized. We'd also be able to set restrictions and timeouts in the sud...
    12 months ago in z/OS / Ported Tools 8 Planned for future release

    SDSF - Add RACF Template RACF Information

    Add to the SDSF panel 'RACF' two new columns that shows the installed and available RACF template version.
    2 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Under review

    Convert RACF to UTF-8

    It would be beneficial if RACF supported full UTF-8 natively, it would allow greater support for specialized characters in names and descriptions, it would also make communication with other systems much easier.
    3 months ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

    Add a confirmation panel for Free command in ISPF command line.

    In ISPF add a confirmation panel for Free command. My customers want this fucntion. Becase they wants to prohibit thier datasets from being compressed unintentional.
    3 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

    SDSF - Add SMF Logstream information - Show if Signed

    Add to the new SDSF panel 'SMFL' two new columns RECSIGN and ARECSIGN reporting if the logstream is signed (like for compressed) and which token is used.
    2 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

    IEBPTPCH includes a module IEBPPCH1 which includes SIIS coding and it causes increase CPU TIME under z15 or z16.

    This client migrated hardware from zEC12 to z15 and z16 with z/OS V2R1 to V2R5. IEBPTPCH CPU time increased four times after migration of hardware and z/OS. We opened a case as TS019579686 and SME recommended us to open IBM ideas as follows. From ...
    6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Under review

    List keyrings associated with all users

    Currently, RACF has limitation to only be able to list keyrings or certificates based on single user ID or Certauth or SITE. Why its useful? Listing all keyrings or certificates will provide at glance if any keyrings are empty or have keyrings wit...
    9 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Under review

    More Granular RACF Dataset member level access SAF checking

    We have a PDS dataset where several application encrypted password files are housed. Splitting the contents of this PDS is not easily achievable. Can RACF architecture allow for an enhancement feature that performs dataset access SAF checks at the...
    4 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Not under consideration

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