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Unified Key Orchestrator

CATTool should Provide Date of Master Key Changes

As part of the Crypto Card or KDS Db2 tables, The CATTool should provide the date that the MKVP value was first stored in the KDS or the date that the MVKP value was changed in the KDS as a result of reencipher. This support was recently provided ...
almost 2 years ago in Unified Key Orchestrator / Other Planned for future release

Feature to import keys of type CIPHER, IMPORTER, EXPORTEr

We don´t have the option to import keys of type CIPHER, IMPORTER and EXPORTER in the UKO. It would be interestig to have this feature
over 1 year ago in Unified Key Orchestrator / UKO for z/OS Planned for future release

Dual Control for key management actions (n/Auth)

A method for dual control is needed in EKMF Web, such that any action (request), for which dual control is required, requires two (or more) users to confirm the request before EKMF Web performs the action. These actions can be (but not limited to)...
over 3 years ago in Unified Key Orchestrator / UKO for z/OS Planned for future release

GUI usability improvements for UKO

We need to provide the UKO authorisation roles to a group of users with little knowledge of key management. They need a tool that is easy and intuitive to use. So the GUI needs to be clearer. I think it would be very useful if users of the UKO GUI...
about 2 years ago in Unified Key Orchestrator / UKO for z/OS Planned for future release

There should be an option to chose propagation of key expiry date to ICSF

Currently, in UKO, the expiry date for the key is always propagated to ICSF - which could lead to unwanted effects once the key is expired and data might not be accessible anymore. There is no option to create non-expiring keys. The propagation to...
over 1 year ago in Unified Key Orchestrator / UKO for z/OS Planned for future release

Add more filters to Audit log for better insights

Currently, the audit log only allows to filter for a given date range a specific user ID a specific subject: key or key template uuid key label key template number It would be useful to also filter for Action and Subject Type, for example to show ...
over 1 year ago in Unified Key Orchestrator / UKO for z/OS Planned for future release

Take keys from IBM Cloud under management in EKMF Workstation

want only one central key management system across enterprise and this covers also cloud environment
over 2 years ago in Unified Key Orchestrator / EKMF Workstation Planned for future release

Key management support for Saleforce Cloud

US Bank interested in possibility of integrating UKO for z/OS with their Salesforce cloud environment for external key management.
over 2 years ago in Unified Key Orchestrator / UKO for z/OS Planned for future release

Automation of Key Management Operations

#Automation and scheduling As a key manager I need the ability to schedule or delay operations for key activation/deletion/rotation to a specific date and/or time of day. #Theme - Expiry/de-activation/deletion/rotation based on key usage pattern S...
about 5 years ago in Unified Key Orchestrator Planned for future release

Permit group selection of ACPs for enablement/disablement in the CCA node management utility included with the EKMF install.

The ability to perform group selection of ACPs would expediate the task of activating ACPs for a role instead of one at a time. (This would have been particularly useful in activating all the TR31 functions.) Note: We are running EKMF v9.4.1 on a...
almost 4 years ago in Unified Key Orchestrator / EKMF Workstation Planned for future release