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Enhancement to the RAMFIL USER statement

We have source sipfil.cpy components that are shared among VIPs. We are in the process of building a loosely coupled system with different CPUIDs for each front end/backend pair. We would like a way to keep the sipfil.cpy source common where they ...
8 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add Timeout Argument to Find, Wait and Hold Macro/Functions (assembler & C)

Applications/Utilities/Processes need a way to provide the max amount of time it is willing to wait to access a data record. If the timeout value for the "W"ait has been reached, then the process can make a determination what should happen in the ...
9 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Needs more information

zSCC - SSO integration with OIDC

Avoid the need to have LDAP or local user and offer SSO capabilities via OIDC to authenticate via an external identity provider (IdP) and potentially get MFA required by that IdP
3 months ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 0 Submitted

provide linkage between CIS safeguard and zSCC control for better traceability

LoB users and auditors are typically familiar with the regulation side i.e. looking from that perspective. They are interested in seeing / tracing the mapping towards the zSCC goals. Currently for the CIS profiles zSCC provides linkage to the corr...
8 months ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 1 Submitted

LDAP group-based role assignments for zSCC

Currently, zSCC supports role assignments at the individual user level only; LDAP group-based role assignments are not supported. This leads to additional administrative burden as access management cannot be centralized. It would be desirable to s...
8 months ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 2 Submitted

z/OS Naming Standard customizability

Many clients have their own naming standards ... examples : (1) During a Predefined Scan z/OSMF issues the following operator commands: D T D CN,EMCS,F,CN=xxxxx Where xxxx is the userid defined in zSSC for z/OSMF. D OMVS,O F CKCS1154,DISPLAY If th...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 2 Future consideration

Enhance zSCC UI to add customized name

As service providing Compliance and Auditing services to multiple clients, and furthermore deploying multiple zSCC instances in 1 zCX Container it is difficult to distinguish between these multiple zSCC instances when sign-on. The only way for Adm...
11 months ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 0 Under review

Compliance Dashboards at the requirements / functions level of each Regulation

Our customers will be able to have a view / dashboard that allows them to know their Security Posture at the requirements / functions level of each regulation we cover (PCI, NIST, CIS). For example, PCI has 12 requirements to cover, related to thi...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 0 Future consideration

TPFUG Requirement: Enchancement to ZSRVC: Manage REST services statistics to provide additional information

Increase visibility for troubleshooting issues and configuring REST Services for zTPF developers and operations support. Update ZSRVC STATS display at a high level to provide how many times each operation is being called, payload sizes, and respon...
about 2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Update ZOVFS mkusr command with longer/complexer user-id/password and default directory

With the current ZOVFS mkusr command we can add users with an 8 character alphanumeric user-id and password. A longer user-id (e.g. up to 25 characters) which can also contain special characters gives more flexibility for adding users, e.g. using ...
4 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration