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zSecure - RVARYPW algorithm report

With the newly introduced RACF APAR OA65905 supports for the RVARYPW the KDFAES algorithm. However, it is not visible in zSecure SETROPTS panel which algorithm is in use. It only reports if a password is used or not whereas the 'regular' password ...
8 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Admin 3 Functionality already exists

z/Secure to only used required input files

When using z/Secure to look at admin functions, such as RA.U, if there are Access Monitor datasets allocated in the setup files, it'll allocate those even though they are not necessary. The simple answer is to not have those selected, however if t...
5 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Admin 3 Functionality already exists

Record Program activity in Access Monitor

When trying to lockdown who can execute a program via the program class, or when you are trying to establish a WHEN PROGRAM on a dataset permission it would be helpful if that information was stored in Access Monitor.
8 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Admin 3 Functionality already exists

RACF Command to Remove all user IDs from a group

A Mainframe security administrator has difficulty or delay in removing all users from a certain group, for example to delete a group, so the idea is to have a single RACF command to remove all users from a group. The command could be REMOVE groupn...
5 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Manager for RACF z/VM 1 Functionality already exists

Display / Select MFA Segment via RA.U Option

Using RA.U to list User IDs, you can select IDs via the segment and show the values based on the segment. However in the list of segments MFA does not appear. This seems to be an oversight?
10 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Audit 5 Functionality already exists

Allow Passticket Authentication for MFA Enabled ID through Session Manager

A user has multiple userids assigned, to allow them to have multiple TSO sessions active on a single system using a session manager. Without MFA the primary userid is used to logon to the session manager and multiple userids can be logged on to TS...
almost 3 years ago in zSecurity / Z Multi-Factor Authentication 1 Functionality already exists