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Requirement for IBM EKMF: Implementation of Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) Using RSA Tokens

Enhancing Security Protocols for EKMF Agents and DB2 Database Access Background IBM Enterprise Key Management Foundation (EKMF) currently authenticates users via a single-factor method, requiring only a username and password. This process grants a...
22 days ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Workstation 0 Submitted

Support HTTPS Connection Between SMU and TEPS

SMU should use HTTPS/port 15201 instead of HTTP/port 15200 for connections to the TEPS.
over 1 year ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Future consideration

Remote reporting on the EKMF database

Overview Remote reporting from an SQL database containing cryptography key information is a crucial process for managing security, compliance, and operational continuity. By retrieving key details such as creation dates, expiration dates, and key ...
about 2 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Workstation 0 Submitted

Fully automated Shutdown/IPL initiated from SMU

GDPS is able to control a fully automated Shutdown/IPL initiated from the GDPS control panel. We would like to the have the same functionality for non GDPS systems. The Operator should have the possibility to initiate and control the following act...
about 5 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

SMU and GDPS - Hardware Integration

When integrating HW views into SMU it would be good to have GDPS facilities integrated, also.
over 5 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Future consideration

SMU to operate with APIML

Launching SMU plug-in from ZOWE. We are running the SMU software as a Linux application in a z/OS Container Extension (zCX). The ZOWE software is running as a Started Task (STC) on a z/OS LPAR. We chose to do this to save on general purpose CPU M...
over 3 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

UKO Certificate Management

As a Key Manager I can view and manage certificates within UKO Key Management Use Cases: Generating private/public key pairs Generating CSRs Importing certificates from a CA Distributing keys and certificates (including the chain to a root) to HPC...
almost 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Workstation / UKO for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Key lifecycle management for old key versions

This idea is related to EKM-I-70 After a key is rotated, there should be options to manage the lifecycle of the old keys. One option could be to set the old version of the key to inactive, so it can not be used for new encryption anymore
12 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Workstation / UKO for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Use of wildcards in the search option SMU

The use of wildcards in the search option of the SA widgets in SMU. Now you can only filter by default on the beginning of the name or you have to set all kinds of filters (e.g.: starts with and ends with).
almost 4 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

Perform ITM/Omegamon actions in SMU

It is useful to have a possibility to perform ITM actions (such as cancelling CICS transactions and DB2 threads) in SMU. Of course, this will then have to be done under the userid of the user, so that everything is neatly arranged via the existin...
over 3 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration