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Enterprise Key Management Foundation

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    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

    Sign the EKMF log with a key that offers up-to-date security, i.e. AES-HMAC or ECC 500+ Bits

    Requirement 1: The currently used DES keys for securing the log of EKMF are not anymore allowed in our organization. More current crypto algorithms have to be used for new log entries. Currently accepted are AES-HMAC and ECC with more than 500 Bit...
    over 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Workstation 2

    support DB2 LUW as key repository for EKMFWEB

    We have z/OS customers interested in pervasive encryption that do not run DB2 on z/OS. Currently only official support exists for DB2 z/OS as key repository. As the EKMFWEB product supports jdbc2 type 2 and type 4 it could target a DB2 LUW running...
    over 3 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 0 Planned for future release

    Improve Dataset Scanner to use SMF42 records

    Today the dataset scanner uses the catalog search interface to record the encryption status of datasets. By the time we actually run the scanner, there have been many thousands of datasets that no longer reside on disk. In our shop we have many th...
    over 3 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 0 Future consideration

    Take keys from IBM Cloud under management in EKMF Workstation

    want only one central key management system across enterprise and this covers also cloud environment
    almost 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Workstation 0 Planned for future release

    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

    ICSF / TKE / EKMF should all use the same VP for the same key type

    The Verification Patterns that are used in ICSF, TKE and EKMF should be consistent so that an auditor or key manager would know that they are working with the same Key. There are times when a Key created on the TKE will show one VP method but the ...
    about 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation 0 Future consideration

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