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zSecure - Add CKGRACF REASON option to all 'command' panels

We rely and use the CKGRACF REASON field for auditing purpose for all commands executed. However, not all Panels do show the option 'QUEUE CKGRACF command (allows use of Reason)' like in Panel C2RP3XCS. The panel appears when one performs updates ...
about 2 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Admin 0 Under review

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...
about 2 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 0 Under review

Give pyRACF similar resources and priority to ZOAU

With Python gaining popularity on z/OS and a new generation of z/OS System Administrators coming onto the platform with prior Python experience, it is important that crucial subsystems like RACF delivers data in JSON format and gives access to qua...
12 months ago in zSecure 4 Under review

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

Pervasive Encryption reporting looking to report on Dataset Type and Last Use Date

We would like to be able to SELECT/EXCLUDE on the dataset type so that we can filter the report based on the dataset type. There are some dataset types that are not able to be encrypted, and we would like to filter them out of the reports. We woul...
5 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Admin 0 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...
3 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 1 Under review

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...
10 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Admin 0 Under review

lookup to a filtered newlist (name) as an alternative to a newlist type

When you have a user ID or a group name in a field, for example the high level qualifier in newlist type=DSN, you can look up the OWNER of the ID by writing QUAL:OWNER or QUAL:RACF.OWNER. You can even use the lookup in a SELECT command: SELECT QUA...
6 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 1 Under review

TAPEVOL Protection : Non Compliance reporting even when ISV products provides the requisite security coverage

Greetings Everyone.. Hi Team, With reference to the Case ( Ref # TS019369325 ) discussion , initiating this ideation to suppress the zSecure Audit : Non Compliance reporting for " TAPEVOL Protection : Non Compliance reporting even when ISV product...
4 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 0 Under review

Convert message in SMF-109 record to ArcSight CEF-format as-is

As a follow-up of a case we would like to put in the request to make it possible for zSecure to convert the message in the SMF-109 record to ArcSight CEF-format as-is, and not overwrite the start of the syslog-message by "Firewall msg". As we unde...
6 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Adapters for SIEM 3 Under review