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Workspace CICS Transaction Server for z/OS
Categories Runtime
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 2, 2013

RELATED IDEAS

Provide a CICS API to generate an encrypted RACF Passticket based upon a Kerberos token.

Using the CICS API (RFE 38916) to verify a Kerberos token in CICS it is also necessary to generate a RACF Passticket for a certain application using the Userid within the Kerberos token.

Providing a CICS API would massively ease the adoption of the widely-adopted Kerberos standard, which is already supported by DB2, LDAP, WebSphere Application Server and others.

Business justification (*confidential*)

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Dec 11, 2015

    This RFE is satisfied by CICS TS 5.3 which is generally available from December 11th 2015.

    A new EXEC CICS RQUEST ENCRYPTPTKT command has been provided.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 22, 2015

    This RFE is satisfied by CICS TS 5.3 which was announced on October 5th 2015 with a planned general availability date of December 11th 2015.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 5, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Transaction Processing
    Product - CICS Transaction Server

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Transaction Processing
    Product - CICS Transaction Server

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Dec 12, 2013

    This is a well understood requirement. It is a candidate for inclusion in a future release.

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