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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...
10 days ago in zSecurity / zSecure Alert 3 Planned for future release

update STIG Check RACF-US-000060 from assertion to a programable validation

Today spending the time to research all of the various settings called out in this STIG check is time consuming and all appear to be programmatically verifiable which would save time. Additionally we do not find the 'assertion' function all that g...
3 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Admin 0 Planned for future release

zSecure - CO.2 -> enhance generated JCL with customer CKRCARLA

While working with interactive carla scripts via zSecure option CO.2 menu one can either run the script interactive or in batch mode. As it is possible to work with referenced input members in carla like:I DD=CKRCARLA M=ACCRDBALHowever, the genera...
about 2 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Admin 0 Planned for future release

New/Updated RACF tests for Guardium that align with IBM's CIS guidance for DB2 z/OS

All federal agencies have to comply with STIG/CIS guidance to harden database systems. This includes privileges. IBM worked with CIS to develop guidance for DB2 z/OS which impacts RACF privileges assigned to DB2 z/OS databases. zSecure Audit for R...
11 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Audit 1 Planned for future release

Parse the SMF 82 subtype 29 XML data

The TKE audit record (SMF 82-29) records the data in XML format. The current message coming through to the SIEM has a generic record description of TKE Audit record. To provide the information contained on the XML formatted portion of the record w...
7 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Adapters for SIEM 2 Planned for future release

zSecure - Resource Copy panel for wide screen (62x160)

zSecure ISPF panels do scale nicely to wide screen resolutions (62x160). Unfortunately it is not working on all panels. For example the RACF general resource panel (C2RP3@@S) uses the full width of 160 columns and when copy a resource to a new pro...
11 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Admin 0 Planned for future release

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.
12 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Alert 2 Planned for future release

Update STIG checks to perform scope expansion

Improve the scope expansion functionality for configuration files when running STIG checks. Currently it is a 1-to-1 comparison between the ID (user or group) listed in the config file versus the access list check. It would be greatly improved by ...
about 1 year ago in zSecurity / zSecure Audit 0 Planned for future release

Improve AZFPASS1 factor to hide the "New password" field when password change or reset is disabled.

When Factor AZFPASS1 is active, the web form authentication shows a RACF password field followed by 2x New Password (optional) requests to change passwords, even if this option was disabled on STC Configuration Attributes, causing confusion to end...
3 months ago in zSecurity / Z Multi-Factor Authentication 0 Planned for future release

Report SMF Signature with Carla SMF2(1,2)

Since we are using SMF signing in our systems I tried to report the SMF Record 2(1:2) but haven't found any indication for this in zSecure IN.D 'Data dictionary' as a built in field.
over 1 year ago in zSecurity / zSecure Admin 2 Planned for future release