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Workspace CICS Transaction Server for z/OS
Categories Explorer
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 27, 2017

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CICS Explorer Timeout

There is a need for additional security in place in these times of cyber attacks became so often. Therefore, according to our IT Security Standards there should be a timeout set for all user sessions. This is meant by any user driven session to any of the software/tool we have got on our systems. The software should be able to timeout user session after certain time of inactivity. Therefore, we require a timeout setting to be added to CICS Explorer product so we could define it.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Dec 14, 2018

    This RFE is also satisfied by CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V5.5 which is GA today 14th December 2018.

  • Guest
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    |     Oct 2, 2018

    This RFE is also satisfied by CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V5.5 which is announced today 2nd October 2018 and which has a planned availability date of 14th December 2018.
    For more information see the CICS TS V5.5 announcement letter https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/2/897/ENUS218-352/index.html&request_locale=en

  • Guest
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    |     Jan 5, 2018

    APAR PI87691 on CICS TS 5.4 with CICS Explorer version 5.4.0.4 provides multifactor authentication support for the CMCI and CICS Explorer which uses LTPA tokens. When the token times out, the user is reprompted to re-authenticate.

  • Guest
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    |     Oct 9, 2017

    Hi,

    We've discussed this but have a few questions. We have a request for MFA support - this would naturally lead to a session timing out and the user needing to log back in with a different token. Would enabling MFA support (if that RFE is fulfilled) be a suitable solution?

    Because CICS needs to receive the authentication credentials with every request, CICS Explorer does need to keep the credentials and send them every time. We could think of various ways that the client could decide to stop reusing the credentials and ask the user again, but they all involve the user configuring CICS Explorer correctly on the client side. Would that kind of thing be acceptable?

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