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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories Communications Server
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 30, 2022

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Merged idea
This idea has been merged into another idea. To comment or vote on this idea, please visit ZOS-I-504 zERT plugin to use Certificate for Authentication.

Use of PROTECTED userid on zERT access to DB2 Merged

Currently in the DB settings panel of the zERT it is necessary to specify the user and password with which the zERT will access DB2


In order to avoid conflicts of password, expiration of the same by security policies, ... we would like to be able to use a user with the attribute PROTECTED (and therefore without password) to access the DB2

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Sep 30, 2022
    The user ID in question (which we usually call the ???zERT database user ID") is used by the zERT Network Analyzer plugin to log into the Db2 for z/OS server. So it is actually Db2 that authenticates the supplied z/OS user ID - not the zERT plugin. Because of that, the zERT plugin needs to provide some sort of authentication token to Db2 to satisfy Db2 connection and authentication protocols.
    To use a protected user ID, the zERT Network Analyzer would have to use an alternative Db2 authentication approach to the userID/password method it currently relies on. One of the options is to use a TLS client certificate as the authentication token. With this approach, you would need a TLS certificate and private key to represent the zERT plugin, plus you would have to configure Db2 for z/OS and the AT-TLS rules protecting the plugin-to-Db2 connection to require client authentication. There is already an Idea (ZOS-I-504) that requests the addition of this support. If this approach would meet your needs, please vote for that Idea and add any comment you see fit. This Idea is being closed as a duplicate of ZOS-I-504.

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