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Z Multi-Factor Authentication

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MFA native Support of Thales eToken PASS without RADIUS

We've successfully tested factor AZFYUBI1 with zMFA. Our preferred factor for production would be AZFTOTP1, this is working fine. But we're currently in process of setting up some support processes (e.g. what will hapen, if somebody lost his phone...
over 1 year ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication 2 Not under consideration

WARNING message, if the zMFA Administrator activate multiple strong factors that would block authentication of users

Currently, it is possible to activate multiple strong zMFA factors for the users (e.g. AZFTOTP1 and AZFCERT1). If more than one of such factors are enabled, the users can't login with In-Band authentication. zMFA should be enhanced to give the adm...
almost 2 years ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication 0 Under review

Modify MFA to work with RRSF

Refer to case TS002528641
over 6 years ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication 1 Not under consideration

IBM MFA - Add PUSH functionality to IBM Z MFA

We really appreciate that you made OTP-validation on the mainframe possible via IBM TouchToken-factor using mobile-APP : IBM Security Verify.Our users do miss the possibility of PUSH-OTP.This feature that IBM Z MFA is able to perform PUSH, is the ...
about 5 years ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication 1 Not under consideration

MFA for z/VM in-band authentication

The MFA solution for z/VM would be more effectively integrated into customer environments if it offered in-band authentication similar to its counterpart on z/OS. On z/OS, the MFA code operates as a started task (STC), interfacing directly with RA...
3 months ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication 1 Under review

Allowing generic RADIUS authenticator select a source IP address.

Why is this useful? Allowing the selection of a source IP address in the generic RADIUS authenticator is critical for environments where: SYSPLEX-wide distributed IP addresses are used, which do not support UDP traffic. Multiple IP stacks exist, a...
6 months ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication 0 Future consideration

New RACF messages indicating Next Token mode

Background - We are migrating from CA Top Secret to IBM RACF, here at our site. We are also migrating from CA AAM to IBM MFA. Under CA Top Secret, we enter "RSA Next Token Mode" after failing 3 attempts to logon. The CA Top Secret throws messages ...
almost 6 years ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication 7 Not under consideration

Kerberos Authentication for Mainframe through TN3270 Emulator

Hi Team, We want to implement Kerberos authentication on Mainframe through TN3270 emulator by authenticating the Mainframe user through AD credentials. As of now we came to know from the case - TS019815595 that TN3270 emulator doesn't support Kerb...
7 months ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication 2 Not under consideration

Support protected or secure key operations for PKCS#11 token objects.

Given this is the auth mekanism for privileged accounts and IBMs own health checker reacts on clear keys in TKDS i'd say it's a reassonable request to develop better crypto support in the zMFA product. I uploaded an examle from one of our test mac...
about 2 years ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication 0 Future consideration

Branding Customization MFA Web Pages

Actually its possible to customize some aspects of webpages like language and html like described on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zma/2.3.0?topic=customization-translating-customizing-mfa-messages-html , but when its needed to change the stylesheet...
about 1 year ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication 0 Future consideration