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update STIG Check RACF-US-000060 from assertion to a programable validation

Today spending the time to research all of the various settings called out in this STIG check is time consuming and all appear to be programmatically verifiable which would save time. Additionally we do not find the 'assertion' function all that g...
3 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Admin 0 Planned for future release

zSecure - CO.2 -> enhance generated JCL with customer CKRCARLA

While working with interactive carla scripts via zSecure option CO.2 menu one can either run the script interactive or in batch mode. As it is possible to work with referenced input members in carla like:I DD=CKRCARLA M=ACCRDBALHowever, the genera...
about 2 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Admin 0 Planned for future release

zSecure - Access Report with more details/columns

When running zSecure Access Monitor Data it would be great if besides the amount of occurrences and the Resource Name + Profile key used the Installation Data from the used Profile is displayed as well. For example when running reports for CSFSERV...
about 2 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Admin 0 Under review

zSecure - Accessing Remote files via CKNSERVE must support DSNPREF

With the recent zSecure 3.1.0 September release availability support for Access Monitor files from Remote Systems via CKNSERVE is available. That function is well appreciated, however it only supports remote files that are fully specified. This fu...
9 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Admin 0 Future consideration

zSecure - Resource Copy panel for wide screen (62x160)

zSecure ISPF panels do scale nicely to wide screen resolutions (62x160). Unfortunately it is not working on all panels. For example the RACF general resource panel (C2RP3@@S) uses the full width of 160 columns and when copy a resource to a new pro...
11 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Admin 0 Planned for future release

Copy user by overtyping their RACF username

Being able to overtype a username to copy would allow quicker and more intuitive copying of a user in the ISPF interface. This functionality was available in a similar non-IBM product that is unfortunately now deprecated.
9 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Admin 1 Not under consideration

zSecure - RVARYPW algorithm report

With the newly introduced RACF APAR OA65905 supports for the RVARYPW the KDFAES algorithm. However, it is not visible in zSecure SETROPTS panel which algorithm is in use. It only reports if a password is used or not whereas the 'regular' password ...
8 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Admin 3 Functionality already exists

z/Secure Admin - Display RACF database information such as % used.

This would be useful information to be displayed, from a datasource like CKFREEZE or if from the CKRCARLA output. Information such as: RACF Database datasets & volumes. RACF Database dataset size / % used. What are the parameters used. Current...
5 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Admin 4 Under review

The zSecure RA.U COPY function does not copy the MFA fields

When using the RA.U option in zSecure you have 2 functions that could recreate a User ID. "R" for Rebuild/Recreate and "C" for Copy. Originally neither function rebuilt/copied the MFA fields, but with TS016298368 a fix was produced to have the reb...
8 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Admin 1 Not under consideration

Add support for DSNPREF for Access Monitor files via CKNSERVE

With version 3.1 Access Monitor files can be accessed via CKNSERVE, however there appears to be no support for DSNPREF.
9 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Admin 0 Future consideration