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Provide expiration time for CTC token in response

Most industry standard token providers will include an expiration time/duration in the response. This helps applications to automatically refresh the token prior to expiration reducing failed auth attempts. Applications usually cache authenticatio...
11 days ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication 0 Submitted

Introduce a scope in zapp.yaml property group definitions

With today's schema of the property group configuration, the search paths are applied for the entire language and cannot be scoped to specific files or folders. Applications may require scopes of where the property groups configuration can be appl...
18 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Future consideration

Hide the "one-click" link that assigns the obsolete LPEX editor to 4 extensions in IDz "Preferences"

Like many of your customers, we have taken note of the fact that LPEX is no longer a maintained editor : we have worked hard to assign as many different types and extensions as possible to other more suitable (and maintained) editors. However, we ...
18 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Planned for future release

Reduce the maintenance needed by allowing RACF groups to be used where we currently use userids.

Currently we use: SET QACCESS NAME(*) - MSGAUTHUSERS and specify a list of users. This lead to many changes as users come and go. It would be much more efficient to either allow MSGAUTHUSERS to take a RACF Group value or create a MSGAUTHGRP keywor...
22 days ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Submitted

E3270UI - HUB DISPLAY PANEL needs to show ALL HUBS that are configured in the environment and ability switch between

Currently we have 2 hubs and 2 teps that we need to be able to switch between for e3270ui Queries... and yet we currently only show the PRIMAY HUB.. No Secondary HUB is displayed and this used to be available in prior releases...
about 1 month ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

We would like to see the CEC Serial Number added to the Kafka metadata/header to better identify where the data record is coming from.

We will be receiving data stream records from multiple CECs to a Kafka cluster. Adding the serial number would be a unique identifier for determining the identity of the CEC/customer. For example, the system name is in the metadata/header portion,...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Under review

Add Opensearch as a ZCDP subscriber

Currently, OpenSearch cannot be used as a ZCDP subscriber, but we would like this functionality to be implemented in a future ZLDA release.
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 5 Under review

Need support for editing DBCS members where one or both SO/SI are missing

When source code members miss one or both SO/SI characters (x'0E or x'0F) then IDz on VS code and Eclipse fail to edit them or display them as read only. Customers need to be able to edit and save them to MVS.
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

Protect OIDC Certificates and keys with ICSF

As described on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zma/2.4.0?topic=oidc-performing-sso-by-using-node, the nodeJS certificates can be stored on RACF database and is exported at runtime during NodeJS initialization using azfsso_launch utility. If the certi...
3 months ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication 0 Under review

zMFA for zVM TLS based TCP transmission to RADIUS

IBM zMFA for zVM supports UDP protocol based transmission to Generic RADIUS servers and does not support TCP. Please add support for secure TLS encrypted TCP transmission from zMFA to RSA RADIUS.
3 months ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication 0 Under review