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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

IBM Enterprise COBOL V6R4+ - Compilation directive to inform the compiler of the end of sequential code execution (call to exit / abend routine)

Hi, We have observed that compiler optimization, particularly PERFORM inlining, can be disrupted by certain constructs in the COBOL source code: EXEC CICS RETURN EXEC CICS HANDLE ABEND LABEL CALL to subprogram without expected return, (abend...
21 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 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

IBM Enterprise COBOL V6R4+ - Review of SQL coding rules when using the Db2 coprocessor integrated into the compiler

Hi, Based on our tests, when using the Db2 coprocessor integrated into the COBOL compiler, it is possible to declare an SQL cursor that uses host variables before those host variables are declared . This restriction should only apply to the use of...
23 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 0 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

Port STCK functions from PL/I to COBOL

Hello. COBOL provides intrinsic functions to get date in time in formatted format. I need to also get the STCK (and/or STCKE) values in bin/hexadecimal. PL/I has these features : pex PLISTCK(val) to put the STCK value in val. Is it possible to por...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 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