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    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 - CIS-OS-6.3.3 USS Banner support for multi freeze file input

    I have two Systems a) CH01MSYS (M1) and b) CH02MSYS (M2) part of the same complex MAINT. Running the validation for each system individually works as expected. However, in the zOS Sysplex/USS environment the setup is a bit special and the validati...
    3 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 0 Under review

    Stig RACF-ES-000200 and CICS users

    Hi, We run hundreds of CICS regions unser the same Grp , however the STIG rule ES-000200 is as follow : CSVLLAS_uca_permits rule: UPDATE and higher access to a resource protected by a FACILITY class CSVLLA.dsname profile allows users to work with ...
    7 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 0 Future consideration

    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

    Allow ALLOC FILEDESC=nn for INPUT files

    CARLa command ALLOC FILEDESC=nn PIPE=YES is documented to support (only) TYPE=OUTPUT. We would like to use zSecure to read and process data from a a data provider in z/OS UNIX, using a pipe, so we would like to be able to use: DEFTYPE TYPE=$PIPEAL...
    28 days ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 0 Future consideration

    ALLOC TYPE=OUTPUT option to conditionally create output data set

    The ALLOC TYPE=OUTPUT DSN=xxxx command fails when the given dsn doesn't exit. It only works when NEW is added. ALLOC TYPE=OUTPUT DSN=xxxx NEW fails (obviously) when the dsn already exists. Provide an alternative disposition, e.g., ENSURE, NEW(IFMI...
    28 days ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 0 Future consideration

    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

    Provide ability to specify where to find SSH configuration for STIG reporting

    I've been pointed to documentation and told that currently the STIG check RACF-SH-000010 will default to /etc/ssh for the configuration file even though we start SSH pointing to a script in a different location that specifies a different path to t...
    9 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 0 Future consideration

    zSecure Audit - CIS Benchmark - CIS-OS-1.2.12 Expired Certificate - show label

    While the current control CIS-OS-1.2.12 checks for expired certificates it only lists the 'real' resource with the serial number. However, like IP addresses they do not mean a lot for an end user. Hence, I would suggest that not only the serial nu...
    9 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 0 Future consideration

    UI-Optimization: various refresh and customize inconveniences (PLAz-Tool)

    Product Code 5698-LDA - “Auto Refresh“ after editing and closing an event would make working much easierIf the column width cannot be changed, please DO NOT implement our auto-refresh requirement. After the refresh, the temporarily changed column ...
    4 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1 Planned for future release

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