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There should be a way to synchronize UKO and ICSF key metadata

This is an additional idea to EKM-I-73 There should also be an option to synchronize key metadata between UKO and ICSF. For example, if the expiry date in ICSF is changed, this should be reflected in UKO to be notified (showing key out of sync) to...
12 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Under review

There should be an option to chose propagation of key expiry date to ICSF

Currently, in UKO, the expiry date for the key is always propagated to ICSF - which could lead to unwanted effects once the key is expired and data might not be accessible anymore. There is no option to create non-expiring keys. The propagation to...
12 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Submitted

Add more filters to Audit log for better insights

Currently, the audit log only allows to filter for a given date range a specific user ID a specific subject: key or key template uuid key label key template number It would be useful to also filter for Action and Subject Type, for example to show ...
12 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Submitted

Allow z/OS keys to be rotated more frequently

Currently, you can only rotate a z/OS key (KMG keystore) every hour. This should be configurable
12 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Under review

After rotation, it should be possible to restore older versions of the key

After key rotation on z/OS, both versions, the old and the new one, are active. The old key can't be modified anymore. If the old key gets deleted by accident, it is currently not possible to restore it because the key sync operation is not availa...
12 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enable support for multiple backups in a singe ADRDSSU step

IZBR has the ability to inventory DFSMSdss logical backups, correctly identifying the associated container file any given data set backup version may be contained in. DFSMSdss provides the ability to drive multiple logical backups in parallel from...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Batch Resiliency 0 Future consideration

Key management support for Saleforce Cloud

US Bank interested in possibility of integrating UKO for z/OS with their Salesforce cloud environment for external key management.
almost 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Support tracking of ADRXMAIA dump processing

Enable tracking and inventory for backups taken by ADRXMAIA. This is a ADRDSSU alternative which allows for a temporary data set name to be used when restoring and backing up a dataset. The final inventory should at a minimum reflect the final tar...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Batch Resiliency 0 Planned for future release

Support specifying key ring owner in configuration

The ablility to use a site certificate and Keyring that has an owner other then the owner running the started task on mainframe. EX: SITEID/Keyringname instead of EKMFweb/Keyringname Sites that run mulitple web servers can use a single Keyring and...
over 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web / UKO for z/OS 0 Future consideration