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Legthen the syslog receiver address.

We have an automatically generated DNS scheme that creates Domain Names longer than the allowed field in the Unix Syslog Receiver address(es) area. It is possible others may have multiple IP addresses or long names as well, thus the current limita...
about 1 month ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 1 Under review

Allow zSecure Alert to run a REXX command when an alert is generated.

Currently Alert will allow us to run a single "TSO/RACF" command. The list of available commands is not fully documented (There is some detail in the documentation under the CMD option on a NEWLIST). However "EXEC" is not one of the allowed comman...
2 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 1 Under review

New alert when adding/removing user or group on general resource

It is requested by our Auditor to implement the rule.
5 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 1 Future consideration

zSecure Alert - Align Mail header for Alert 1617 with message C2P1617I

This is to request an update in the way zSecure Alert generates the mail for the master key rotation.See attached screen print for reference. Where the message contains both key types RSA and ECC as expected.The mail body holds the same informatio...
6 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 0 Planned for future release

new zSecure Alert for SENSITIVITY=Site-Res-U (and also Site-Res-R for Read)

Member SENSRSRC shows 3 example for sensitive resources. Site-Dsn-R is covered by Alert 1212 (Access>=READ on site sensitive data set) Site-Dsn-U is covered by Alert 1213 (Access>=UPDATE on site sensitive data set) Site-Res-U is not yet cove...
6 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 0 Future consideration

Provide job to list the status of all Alerts in a specified C2PCUST dataset

We have potentially 25 LPARs across 5 sysplexes to manage, each with their own set of Alerts (each LPAR has its own C2PCUST library). zSecure Alert provides online (i.e. via ISPF) access to see the status of these alerts. However, signing on to 25...
8 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 3 Planned for future release

New Alerts based on DB2 SMF audit records

Although we are using zSecure Alert to trigger dataset or RACF events there is no capability to catch DB2 SMF audit records. It is a PCI-DSS requirement to trigger alerts on the DB2 insufficient access on sensitive tables or modification of a user...
10 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 6 Future consideration

MFA User Segment alerts

Hello IBM, Our team thinks the addition of MFA segment related user alerts would benefit zSecure. Currently there are no alerts for adding or deleting MFA Segments on the mainframe and we believe that the addition of this alert would be beneficial...
10 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 3 Future consideration

The ability to unload all z/Secure Alerts in a consumable form.

At the moment, there's no obvious way to unload all of the alerts that are defined in z/Secure Alert (out of the box or custom alerts), the associated settings (selected yes/no, where fields, extended actions (like commands issued) or additional s...
about 1 year ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 0 Future consideration

zSecure - add owner to default alert 1401

The current zSecure Alert 1401 reporting unix access violations provides great information on what (access) happened where (path). However, it would be great if the owner user:group can be added to the default alert.
over 1 year ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 2