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    Provide a plugin to KAFKA on z/OS to allow the ability to configure the PKI services and use the RACF key ring.

    KAFKA on z/OS is missing a plugin similar to what WebSphere Liberty does include and provide out of the box, allowing to configure the PKI services and use the RACF key ring. The solution being requested: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.2.0?topi...
    12 days ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Submitted

    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 ...
    about 2 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 0 Under review

    Allow using pre-existing Kafka cluster with Common Data Provider

    In sensitive / high-restrictions environments, it's not possible to deploy our own little Kafka cluster, let alone with the auto-creation of topics.It is necessary to point to the existing Kafka footprint in an env., and to use mTLS for authn/auth...
    21 days ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 2 Under review

    Enable AT-TLS for CDP and make it use certificates in RACF

    In environments with tighter security controls, storing .p12 files 'willy nilly' is not allowed.Like Omegamon Data Provider, please make CDP support working with certificates associated with the CDP STC owner's keyring in RACF, and let AT-TLS hand...
    27 days ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Under review

    MFA User Segment alerts

    Hello IBM, Our team thinks the addition of MFA segment related user alerts would benefit zSecure. Currently there are no alerts for adding or deleting MFA Segments on the mainframe and we believe that the addition of this alert would be beneficial...
    about 1 year ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 3 Future consideration

    Omegamon need to start to support the use of SMF

    Omegamon is dependent on NMI. This prevent other vendors to send important information to Omegamon. A simpel exempel is the sftp server from CO:Z. It can not use the NMI but can generate SMF 119 records. It is the same information as the FTP serve...
    about 1 month ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    Don't include 64-bit common buffer storage for HBOSMF task in a SVC dump

    We have experienced sysplex wide slow down events due to dump processing having to capture large 64-bit common memory objects. To prevent dump processing causing system wide performance issues, it was recommeded by IBM to not include 64-bit common...
    6 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Under review

    Allow zSecure Alert to run a REXX command when an alert is generated.

    Currently Alert will allow us to run a single "TSO/RACF" command. The list of available commands is not fully documented (There is some detail in the documentation under the CMD option on a NEWLIST). However "EXEC" is not one of the allowed comman...
    7 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 1 Future consideration

    zSecure Alert - Align Mail header for Alert 1617 with message C2P1617I

    This is to request an update in the way zSecure Alert generates the mail for the master key rotation.See attached screen print for reference. Where the message contains both key types RSA and ECC as expected.The mail body holds the same informatio...
    10 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 0 Planned for future release

    Legthen the syslog receiver address.

    We have an automatically generated DNS scheme that creates Domain Names longer than the allowed field in the Unix Syslog Receiver address(es) area. It is possible others may have multiple IP addresses or long names as well, thus the current limita...
    5 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 1

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