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Improvements to zSecure =RA panels for searching the RACF CSDATA segment

In the four zSecure =RA submenus where it is possible to select 'additional selection criteria' on Segment Presence, add the following options on the custom data segment panel: - The ability to specify whether multiple search options should be AND...
over 1 year ago in zSecurity / zSecure Admin 0 Planned for future release

Add CKGRACF zSecure command to the list of commands included in the REPORT VERBOSE/TERSE command of the RACF-Offline component

CKGRACF provides some extensions to the native RACF commands, it is fully supported by RACF-Offline but it is not included in the REPORT command output.
8 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Admin 0

Option to display CSDATA segment on CONSUL Helpdesk function 1

Can Zsecure display RACF custom field when using the Helpdesk function 1- Display Our helpdesk uses CONSUL(Zsecure) to Display userid details. Currently, it displayd Username, Installation Data can this be enhanced to display CSDATA custom f...
8 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Admin 0 Future consideration

Access Monitor - within the AM.1 panel to expend fields to allow more selection

Allow for more selects on fields e.g. userid - specifying more user IDs or other fields. This allows a quick/easy way to add additional selections without having to go into the CARLa and manually add them to the CARLa script. Handy for users who a...
5 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Admin 2 Future consideration

RACF Class refresh & in-storage v RACF database differences

Differences between what's in RACF and what's in storage. A comparison to show what the differences are to assist with changes and investigating problems/issues. A detail of when the RACF class was last refreshed.
5 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Admin 0 Future consideration

Sysplex Level CKFREEZE - Having ONE CKFREEZE for an entire sysplex would greatly speed up time for any zSecure UI or batch functions that have to read through CKFREEZE datasets

The idea is just have ONE CKFREEZE for ALL LPARs. This would greatly enhance efficient where zSecure UI or batch functions require reading of the CKFREEZE dataset. Having to parse through multiple datasets creates added overhead and adds to longer...
about 1 year ago in zSecurity / zSecure Admin 0 Future consideration

zSecure - Hour Granulartiy for REQUEST command

When requesting command execution in panel C2RP3XCS to get a connect to a group it is only possible to permit that access based on calendar days. Some privilege escalation should only be granted for a few hours instead of calendar days.
about 5 years ago in zSecurity / zSecure Admin 3 Future consideration

z/OS Unix Access Report for Users or Groups

In zSecure, we can get an access report for a User or Group via the RA.3.4 panels. This report shows us what RACF resources an ID has access to, whether directly via the ID or via a connected Group (selecting option 2 in RA.3.4). Such a report cur...
over 2 years ago in zSecurity / zSecure Admin 0 Planned for future release

Increase precision of counters for RACF commands in the REPORT VERBOSE/TERSE command when using RACF-Offline

RACF-offline provides the REPORT VERBOSE/TERSE command to include a summary of RACF commands issued as part of the RACF-Offline session. Currently the precision is 16 bits which means that any RACF command issued more than 65,535 times will have t...
8 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Admin 0

Add option or make it default to use PHYSICAL_ATTR instead of ATTR RE:U:F

See IBM case tickets TS016343010 and TS016139824. If you read thru the cases, you'll see that z/Secure is not displaying the correct data when querying the USS file permission bits. We searched on GLOBAL WRITE files and directories and got very fe...
9 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Admin 2 Planned for future release

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