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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories ICSF
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 22, 2017

RELATED IDEAS

Allow ICSF to use a caller supplied ACEE and STOKEN on RACROUTE authorization requests

ICSF provided callable service CSFACEE to allow the requestor to supply a security environment using a RACF ENVR, to be used by ICSF when performing authorization checks rather than the default ACEE. But that does not help in environments, like Db2, which create and provide an ACEE to be used for performing authorization checks. It is performance prohibitive to create an ENVR from the ACEE each time an exit is called and performs an ICSF callable service request. And it is complex and error prone for an exit to try to create, cache, and reuse ENVRs on subsequent invocations of the exit.

Please provide an authorized callable service interface similar to that used by Db2 when calling the RACF/DB2 external security routine. The Db2 interface passes an ACEE address and a STOKEN for the address space that the ACEE resides in to be used. The ACEE and an ALET, created using the STOKEN when necessary, is then used to do authorization checks by performing RACROUTE REQUEST=FASTAUTH macro invocations. You can find the source for the RACF/DB2 external security routine on any system that has RACF installed in dataset SYS1.SAMPLIB(IRR@XACS), and then see how the external security routine performs authorization requests using the ACEE and ALET.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Dec 20, 2022
    This item is unlikely to be given high enough priority to be placed into the product plan. If you feel that this requirement is needed, please resubmit or create a new updated request.
  • Guest
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    |     Aug 6, 2020

    Not in our immediate plans, but remains on our product backlog.

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