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Status Under review
Workspace IBM Z ChatOps
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 16, 2025

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Restricting access to specific bot commands and command options for specific users and/or globally.

Introduce "read-only" access mode limited to getting system status. Blocking any possibility to perform any task (like stopping resources) which could change system state.

Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Wolfgang Schäberle
    Reply
    |     Jan 17, 2025

    Thanks for opening this Idea. We will evaluate it.
    Just one comment upfront. Actions like starting/stopping resources driven through the chatbot do have additional security built in. The chatbot will prompt for a TSO user ID and password that the user has to provide when trying to submit such a command via the chatbot. The given credentials will then be checked against the security backend on z/OS - such as RACF.
    I agree that on top of that we could add a property that already hides these kind of actions at the chatbot level and we will consider that as a usability improvement.
    But the current implementation should not be a security issue and prevent using the solution.
    Please let me know your thoughts on this aspect. Thanks.

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