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Not supported for the current status
Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories RACF
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 14, 2025

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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-2004 Support for RACF federation with external IdP (using JWTs for authentication).

Please provide full out-of-the box support for AD & Azure Entra integration with full availability decoupling Merged

As per of full out-out-of-box RACF integration to AD & Azure Entra, we need all capabilities to be supported including

  • AD user ID and passwords logins mapped to RACF accounts & passwords for availability decoupling (along will full lifecycle periodic sync of accounts)

  • AD Service accounts & generic accounts mapped to RACF service accounts & generic accounts availability decoupling

  • AD groups and group nesting (important feature along will full lifecycle periodic sync of groups)

  • Short lived JWT/JWE tokens for APIs with various subjects mapped to mainframe data sources / DB fields (IMS / DB2)

  • SSO login with OS user login (for TN3270 thick client) / Browser (TN3270 web client)

  • Obviously with password-less & MFA login with authenticator TOTP support natively (without additional add-ons)

Idea priority High

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