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    zSecure - Events Report enhancement for IP (in and out filters)

    The current EV.I report is very helpful to create quickly a good report. It would be extremely beneficial if the filtering of the IP and Port can be better filtered with either local or remote or both.Currently the provided IP address or Port are ...
    about 2 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Admin 0 Under review

    zSecure - Improve Command generation to delete a contained user

    Currently zSecure Panels (when deleting a Userid) offers only the option: 1. Delete userid and override containment protection (Y/N; blank=N) Hence, if the user is contained one can enter Y to let zSecure generate the delete command anyway. Howeve...
    about 2 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Admin 0 Under review

    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

    zSecure - Add CKGRACF REASON option to all 'command' panels

    We rely and use the CKGRACF REASON field for auditing purpose for all commands executed. However, not all Panels do show the option 'QUEUE CKGRACF command (allows use of Reason)' like in Panel C2RP3XCS. The panel appears when one performs updates ...
    3 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Admin 0 Future consideration

    zSecure - Supported SMF fields via Carla related to PH63197

    We have installed and activated APAR PH63197 for IBM Communication Server (zERT), see: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PH63197?mhsrc=ibmsearch_a&mhq=PH63197 This introduces new fields and details for certificates, for example: SMF119SS_...
    4 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Admin 3 Planned for future release

    zSecure - Helpdesk - Add Phrase to helpdesk panel rather than separate one

    Currently the Helpdesk panel offers the option to set a new password or phrase for a user. The differentiation between the two is made based on selection of 'Password or phrase'.However, only the 'New password' and 'Verify password' is listed, it ...
    about 1 month ago in zSecure / zSecure Admin 0 Planned for future release

    Pervasive Encryption reporting looking to report on Dataset Type and Last Use Date

    We would like to be able to SELECT/EXCLUDE on the dataset type so that we can filter the report based on the dataset type. There are some dataset types that are not able to be encrypted, and we would like to filter them out of the reports. We woul...
    6 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Admin 0 Under review

    zSecure RA.S - provide capability to update RACFCLAS description field for installation defined classes

    zSecure has a knowledge base of certain classes, including IBMs of course, plus some OEM classes, such as £ENDEVOR, so that it can report something meaningful in the Description field of the newlist type=class report type. The default description ...
    7 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Admin 6 Planned for future release

    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

    Full support of SMF102 data

    CDP / ZLDA only supports a limited subset of SMF102 records. At a minimum, IFCID 145 and IFCID 142 are required; ideally all of the fields within SMF102 are needed. The customer has chosen Splunk as a strategic platform for enterprise log analysis...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 2 Planned for future release

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