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Omegamon USS metrics without root privileges

The Omegamon TEMS STC requires USS root privileges to gather z/OS UNIX metrics.Giving root privileges to any service is an unnecessary security risk.To solve this security issue, Omegamon could use UNIXPRIV or another form of security delegation t...
2 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Future consideration

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

Reduce the repetitive definitions required to specify port pools.

Currently, transport pools are defined by each type of agent Kpp_X_KDE_TRANSPORT_POOL_OPTIONS. This wastes the admin's time by having to specify the parameter for each agent. Additionally it increases the chance for errors by requiring the pool to...
3 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

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...
10 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

Adding UID/GID Parameter in RTEDEF for RTE_USS_RTEDIR path

Hello Team, I would like UID/GID parameter to be added in RTEDEF for RTE_USS_RTEDIR. With each GENERATE UID gets updated to the TSO ID who runs the GENERATE. This is to address the case opened with IBM L2 support TS020349894.
3 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

Update code to allow SDA files in /kds/support/TEMS directory to be written with different permissions

By default, if the SDA process is unsuccessful, the intermediary SDA files are written with the 'Write' bit turned on in 'Other' class. As a result, we would like to request for an enhancement to the code where a parameter can be added so that cus...
about 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration