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Consistent date format for display of dates in tables and filter criteria

The display of dates should be consistent across the UKO UI. - The dates displayed in UKO when listing keys and key templates are shown in ISO format YYYY/MM/DD. - The filter criteria for dates for keys and key templates are display in US format M...
over 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Request to provide a ZAP or work around for Fault analyzer v16 to read LE delimiter separator character from default "/" to "\".

Request to provide a ZAP or work around for Fault analyzer v16 to read LE delimiter separator character from default "/" to "\".We do have a zos usermod in one of client system which changes the LE delimiter separator character from "/" to "\" and...
8 months ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Future consideration

UKO: Additional column/view in "Managed keys" panel in UKO GUI

We think it would be very helpful to be able to see the actual key status in the connected keystores, e.g. CKDS, in the UKO GUI. We realised that this could be different and would help us to manage the keys better without logging into zOS and ICSF...
8 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Under review

EKMF Web should support the ability to import CIPHER keys from an existing CKDS.

Given that CIPHER keys are the recommended key type for DSE, EKMF Web should fully support the ability to import these keys when they have been previously defined in a keystore.
about 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web / UKO for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Make IBM Fault analyzer to work with BLKOFF option as well

In our organization we have used BLKOFF as default option while compiling programs and now to introduce Fault analyzer its not an easy transition as by default we are not able to use the existing compile listing as side files. We have to re-compil...
11 months ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Future consideration

It should be possible to move keys from one vault to another

Once a key is created, it stays in the vault it was created in. But there might be reasons for having to transfer the key from one vault to another, like: moving key from test vault to production vault changed responsibilities for the key, if vaul...

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