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    Document the BXH/BXLE/JXH/JXLE trick

    An article in either the systems journal or the journal of RF&D described using BXH and BXLE to test 30 bits in succession. This trick is still valid and extends to 62 consecutive tests in AMODE64. It would be useful to have it in either the e...
    9 days ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 1 Submitted

    When I am special of a main group, I don't need authorization Remove/Connect for the downstream subgroup

    I'm delegated the security on a perimeter. This perimeter is delegated to a team, this team is special only on a group, the top group. But if we want that they (delegated team) remove/connect people on the downstream groups, we have to give the ri...
    27 days ago in zSecure / zSecure Admin 1 Future consideration

    line command to merge RACF groups

    in a role-based admin environment, sometimes roles are combined/merged. The PERMITs for these role groups have to be merged, such that the highest access level of each role is used. The COPY GROUP option (RA.4.1) and the C line command in RA.G ove...
    30 days ago in zSecure / zSecure Admin 0 Future consideration

    In zSecure Audit option AU.S > RACF control reports, please test if the primary and secondary RACF database is on the same volume

    Through recent security assessments, I have noticed that some customers have their primary and secondary RACF database on the same volume. If the volume becomes inaccessible / someone takes it offline, you have effectively lost RACF processing, wh...
    about 1 month ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 0 Under review

    zSecure - SMF Report start-end time issue when spanning a calendar day

    zSecure Event reporting does not support 'official' relative time references. When running a report spanning two or more calendar days, the From must be smaller than the Until as the Today-1 is not honored, as seen below. (sorry for the bad format...
    about 2 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 1 Planned for future release

    Password spray alerts various sources

    zSecure Alert is uniquely equipped to capture events and circumstances at near real-time and can serve as an early alert for such incidents as password spraying from external sources. The identification of an attack from external sources (SSH and ...
    2 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 0 Under review

    Provide ACEE change correction capability

    Currently ACEECHK capabilities in RACF detect unexpected changes to the ACEE control block and its associated control blocks (TOKEN, ACEX, etc.) and issue IRR421I messages showing what has been changed. Please provide an option to change the contr...
    3 months ago in zSecure 1 Under review

    For any incoming IMS Connect transaction: Extract user ID in USERDATA field for a specific IMS transaction profile in RACF(TIMS), and replace original user ID?

    For any incoming IMS Connect transaction: Extract user ID in USERDATA field for a specific IMS transaction profile in RACF(TIMS), and replace original user ID. user ID in USERDATA will be propagated as OMSECUID in IMS Connect. Business reaso...
    4 months ago in IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Under review

    Allow ALLOC FILEDESC=nn for INPUT files

    CARLa command ALLOC FILEDESC=nn PIPE=YES is documented to support (only) TYPE=OUTPUT. We would like to use zSecure to read and process data from a a data provider in z/OS UNIX, using a pipe, so we would like to be able to use: DEFTYPE TYPE=$PIPEAL...
    4 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 0 Future consideration

    ALLOC TYPE=OUTPUT option to conditionally create output data set

    The ALLOC TYPE=OUTPUT DSN=xxxx command fails when the given dsn doesn't exit. It only works when NEW is added. ALLOC TYPE=OUTPUT DSN=xxxx NEW fails (obviously) when the dsn already exists. Provide an alternative disposition, e.g., ENSURE, NEW(IFMI...
    4 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 0 Future consideration

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