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Kerberos Authentication for Mainframe through TN3270 Emulator

Hi Team, We want to implement Kerberos authentication on Mainframe through TN3270 emulator by authenticating the Mainframe user through AD credentials. As of now we came to know from the case - TS019815595 that TN3270 emulator doesn't support Kerb...
5 months ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication 2 Not under consideration

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about 2 months ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication 0 Not under consideration

MFA native Support of Thales eToken PASS without RADIUS

We've successfully tested factor AZFYUBI1 with zMFA. Our preferred factor for production would be AZFTOTP1, this is working fine. But we're currently in process of setting up some support processes (e.g. what will hapen, if somebody lost his phone...
over 1 year ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication 2 Not under consideration

improvement for AZFTOTP1 enrollment

Today when you enroll an user for AZTOTP1, you can have 2 ways to add it to your authenticator app on your mobile phone. By default the most are using a QR code, but as alternative you can use the otpauth address by typing it manually into your au...
11 months ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication 1 Not under consideration

Enhance email notification to also send emails via CSSMTP

We were instructed to encrypt all email leaving the mainframe. MFA could encrypt its email connection. However, CSSMTP already supports encryption. CSSMTP has advantages like a central email connection point and retry if the email server (MTA) is ...
almost 2 years ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication 2 Not under consideration

IBM MFA - Add PUSH functionality to IBM Z MFA

We really appreciate that you made OTP-validation on the mainframe possible via IBM TouchToken-factor using mobile-APP : IBM Security Verify.Our users do miss the possibility of PUSH-OTP.This feature that IBM Z MFA is able to perform PUSH, is the ...
almost 5 years ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication 1 Not under consideration

Modify MFA to work with RRSF

Refer to case TS002528641
about 6 years ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication 1 Not under consideration

New RACF messages indicating Next Token mode

Background - We are migrating from CA Top Secret to IBM RACF, here at our site. We are also migrating from CA AAM to IBM MFA. Under CA Top Secret, we enter "RSA Next Token Mode" after failing 3 attempts to logon. The CA Top Secret throws messages ...
almost 6 years ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication 7 Not under consideration

Allow the processing order of strong factors to be configurable

Strong MFA factor processing order should be allowed to be prioritized by the customer. We don't want to use TOTP all the time.
about 5 years ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication 0 Not under consideration

Inbound Authentication Should not require Additional Extraneous Characters for Processing

MFA processing should go through the factors allowed to the user to determine based upon input what is appropriate.
about 5 years ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication 1 Not under consideration