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    Add support for Basic and Bearer Authorization through Authorization header to libserdes, enabling secure authentication against Kafka Registries.

    At the moment the only way for an application to authorize it self towards a Kafka registry using libserdes (part of the Kafka SDK) is by passing the username and password in the URL. This is an unsafe solution and is considered bad security pract...
    about 22 hours ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Apache Kafka 0 Submitted

    Allow UKO to generate secure HMAC keys

    UKO Customers who would like to migrate from legacy to enhanced passtickets would benefit from using UKO to generate HMAC keys for passticket usage
    9 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Under review

    Native (open source) Kafka client in Java on the Mainframe to support any Kafka server target

    For IBM to support the native open source Kafka client in Java on the Mainframe, a license of IBM Event automation is required, but also this support is currently limited with a requirement to connect to an IBM Kafka server only. This is not the c...
    5 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Apache Kafka 2 Submitted

    Idea is to have the current value and the threshold value in the OC8900, OC8902 or OC8903 messages when they are triggering the events.

    It will be useful to know the actual value at the time of the issue which will help everyone to understand the situation at that point of time when we have an email notification email/alert. we are expecting the values in the N/A > N/A. This wi...
    7 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Messages 1 Not under consideration

    Add support for RACF keyrings

    Our policies and procedures on z/OS are to leverage RACF for SSL key stores and trust stores. Applications do not have access to their private keys unless they are accessed via RACF keyrings. Not having the ability to use RACF keyrings is preventi...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Apache Kafka 1 Needs more information

    Enhancement the Cobl Kafak SDK by incorporating Client-Side Field Level Encryption (CSFLE).

    Key Benefits of CSFLE Enhanced Data Privacy and Security: CSFLE encrypts and decrypts individual fields within data, ensuring that sensitive information is accessible only to authorized stakeholders.Even if unauthorized users gain access to the da...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Apache Kafka 0 Planned for future release

    Bulk/batch operations from the user interface

    I wih that the UKO user interface had some way to import a set of keys, instead the key by key option that is possible at the moment
    about 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Feature to import keys of type CIPHER, IMPORTER, EXPORTEr

    We don´t have the option to import keys of type CIPHER, IMPORTER and EXPORTER in the UKO. It would be interestig to have this feature
    11 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Submitted

    PL/I support for Kafka SDK

    Many customers use PL/I on Z. It would be good to have Kafka SDK support available to this language in addition to already available COBOL & C languages
    10 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Apache Kafka 1

    UKO Certificate Management

    As a Key Manager I can view and manage certificates within UKO Key Management Use Cases: Generating private/public key pairs Generating CSRs Importing certificates from a CA Distributing keys and certificates (including the chain to a root) to HPC...
    almost 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Workstation / UKO for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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