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zSecure - RVARYPW algorithm report

With the newly introduced RACF APAR OA65905 supports for the RVARYPW the KDFAES algorithm. However, it is not visible in zSecure SETROPTS panel which algorithm is in use. It only reports if a password is used or not whereas the 'regular' password ...
8 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Admin 3 Functionality already exists

IP filter rule enhancement to include IKED (IPsec Policy)

Alert 1615 only covers changes to the IP rules defined in the TCPIP Profile statement IPSEC->IPSECR<-ENDIPSEC. As we are supposed to use Policy Agent to configure IPsec rules, this alert is then kind of 'useless' as this default IPSECR state...
about 1 year ago in zSecurity / zSecure Alert 0 Future consideration

Branding Customization MFA Web Pages

Actually its possible to customize some aspects of webpages like language and html like described on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zma/2.3.0?topic=customization-translating-customizing-mfa-messages-html , but when its needed to change the stylesheet...
3 months ago in zSecurity / Z Multi-Factor Authentication 0 Future consideration

Improve AZFPASS1 factor to hide the "New password" field when password change or reset is disabled.

When Factor AZFPASS1 is active, the web form authentication shows a RACF password field followed by 2x New Password (optional) requests to change passwords, even if this option was disabled on STC Configuration Attributes, causing confusion to end...
3 months ago in zSecurity / Z Multi-Factor Authentication 0 Planned for future release

z/Secure Admin - Display RACF database information such as % used.

This would be useful information to be displayed, from a datasource like CKFREEZE or if from the CKRCARLA output. Information such as: RACF Database datasets & volumes. RACF Database dataset size / % used. What are the parameters used. Current...
5 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Admin 4 Under review

zSecure - Alert 1115 Too many violations - filter enhancement

Currently Alert 1115 does only allow customization for a) the amount of violations and a.1) specific users being revoked exceeding the limit via option 'Customize alert selection list'. I would suggest there second option to allow excludes for a w...
about 1 year ago in zSecurity / zSecure Alert 1 Future consideration

WARNING message, if the zMFA Administrator activate multiple strong factors that would block authentication of users

Currently, it is possible to activate multiple strong zMFA factors for the users (e.g. AZFTOTP1 and AZFCERT1). If more than one of such factors are enabled, the users can't login with In-Band authentication. zMFA should be enhanced to give the adm...
12 months ago in zSecurity / Z Multi-Factor Authentication 0 Under review

z/VM RACF userid - TCPIP pair record (console/api/query)

Dear developers.Could you please provide API/Exit/Query for TCPIP connection matching RACF userid ?FTP server provide: SM FTPSERVE QUERY (I can trap and match IP-userid)Telent has also such option: NETSTAT telnetfor LDAP I need at least QUERY like...
about 2 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Manager for RACF z/VM 3 Not under consideration

The zSecure RA.U COPY function does not copy the MFA fields

When using the RA.U option in zSecure you have 2 functions that could recreate a User ID. "R" for Rebuild/Recreate and "C" for Copy. Originally neither function rebuilt/copied the MFA fields, but with TS016298368 a fix was produced to have the reb...
8 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Admin 1 Not under consideration

New Alerts based on DB2 SMF audit records

Although we are using zSecure Alert to trigger dataset or RACF events there is no capability to catch DB2 SMF audit records. It is a PCI-DSS requirement to trigger alerts on the DB2 insufficient access on sensitive tables or modification of a user...
2 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Alert 6 Under review