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UKO for z/OS

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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
8 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Under review

UKO-Agent should have his own Messages in zOS SYSLOG

We have the need to control and automate messages from the UKO agent. So if something changes in a Key Dataset (e.g. CKDS) with UKO, we need to be able to react from zOS. Actually, the only way to be aware of changes there is to analyse SMF data. ...
about 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 1 Under review

UKO: /ukebase/server.xml improvments

It would be easier to have the same timestamp in each log (joblog, syslog, messages.log, trace.log). Currently our zOS logs are in local time and the GUI logs are in UTC. Please add a variable to server.xml in /ukobase to set a timezone Another go...
over 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Under review

UKO: Additional column/view in "Managed keys" panel in UKO GUI

We think it would be very helpful to be able to see the actual key status in the connected keystores, e.g. CKDS, in the UKO GUI. We realised that this could be different and would help us to manage the keys better without logging into zOS and ICSF...
7 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Under review

There should be a way to synchronize UKO and ICSF key metadata

This is an additional idea to EKM-I-73 There should also be an option to synchronize key metadata between UKO and ICSF. For example, if the expiry date in ICSF is changed, this should be reflected in UKO to be notified (showing key out of sync) to...
11 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow z/OS keys to be rotated more frequently

Currently, you can only rotate a z/OS key (KMG keystore) every hour. This should be configurable
11 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Under review