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We would like to have support for capturing compliance data from z/OS Connect EE

We would like to have support for capturing compliance data from all infra components/subsystems running on z/OS for all profiles. Especially DORA, CIS and BYO profiles (so host defined and predefined profiles, as it is currently setup in the zSCC...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 0 Future consideration

We would like to have support for capturing compliance data from Liberty on z/OS

We would like to have support for capturing compliance data from all infra components/subsystems running on z/OS for all profiles. Especially DORA, CIS and BYO profiles (so host defined and predefined profiles, as it is currently setup in the zSCC...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 0 Future consideration

We would like to have support for capturing compliance data from WAS on z/OS

We would like to have support for capturing compliance data from all infra components/subsystems running on z/OS for all profiles. Especially DORA, CIS and BYO profiles (so host defined and predefined profiles, as it is currently setup in the zSCC...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 0 Future consideration

More concise description for active DB2 status in DB2 CIS Report scan

The DB2 CIS report contains a control stating whether DB2 is active or not (CIS-DB2-1.1.1:db2_subsystem_active). However in our opinion, the current wording of the control is quite confusing. In our case, DB2 is active but the overall status is se...
9 months ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 0 Submitted

Apply 'Drift-over-time' and Delta reporting not only to same scope but also a different scope.

it is possible to compare compliance from one scan to the next - on the SAME scope. But if example a Scope is one single LPAR, it is now possible to track compliance drift over time on the SAME scope. But if not possible to compare the compliance ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 0 Future consideration

Granular Goal customisation application

Currently is possible to customize Goal values for some goals. As example the Umask Value in SMF1154_2_FDCFUMASKSTR used by Goal #4002003 - Communications Server FTPSERV. But clients would want to use different values between different Profiles an...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 0 Future consideration

Publish Profile and/or Goal deltas with each new release/fix pack (new goals, new components, etc…)

With zSecure there is now a seperate publication (online accesible link) that tell users what is new or deprecated as far as regulations, etc is concerned. As example : zSecure 310 Compliance Standards (October 2024).pdf . Would it be possible to ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 0 Future consideration

Use historical SMF data for Threat Detection for Z

We have provided IBM with months of SMF data to be used for Threat Detection for Z and their ongoing development of that product. We're told that with a new installation the product will essentially start from scratch - we think it would be a miss...
11 months ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 0 Under review

The 'secret' in the ZSCC microservices can be externalized from the application in OpenShift and injected at the deployment time to the security vault (such as Hashicorp Vault; Azure key Vault

It is the customer's 'Vendor Principles' to use an External Secrets Operator such as Hashicorp to manage the secrets in OpenShift
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 1 Future consideration

Enhance the details column in zSCC scans

Within the details column, it would be interesting to enter more information, more details about the analysis and some "what to do next" to help correct the errors presented.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 2 Future consideration