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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories RACF
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 4, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

Set RVARY password encryption as default

I just learned today that you have to explicitly tell RACF you want the RVARY password encrypted with the KDFAES positional, why is this not done by default? Doesn't seem like it would hurt anything to force everyone to use encryption on their database passwords.

It would be nice if we at a minimum could get an option to have all RVARYPW commands use KDFAES by default so that RACF administrators don't forget to do it, but honestly I think it should just be forced.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Jul 15, 2025
    With the support added in APAR OA65423, the KDFAES keyword only needs to be specified the first time. Subsequent RVARY password changes will use KDFAES by default. Please see the APAR text for more details.
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