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Support HTTPS Connection Between SMU and TEPS

SMU should use HTTPS/port 15201 instead of HTTP/port 15200 for connections to the TEPS.
over 1 year ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Future consideration

Fully automated Shutdown/IPL initiated from SMU

GDPS is able to control a fully automated Shutdown/IPL initiated from the GDPS control panel. We would like to the have the same functionality for non GDPS systems. The Operator should have the possibility to initiate and control the following act...
about 5 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

Enterprise Key Inventory and Reporting

Add Enterprise Key Inventory and Reporting functionality to EKMF. This will help to remove the need for a manual key inventory that organisations often manage in spreadsheets and to automate the maintenance and reporting operations, thereby removi...
over 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 2 Future consideration

SMU and GDPS - Hardware Integration

When integrating HW views into SMU it would be good to have GDPS facilities integrated, also.
over 5 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Future consideration

SMU to operate with APIML

Launching SMU plug-in from ZOWE. We are running the SMU software as a Linux application in a z/OS Container Extension (zCX). The ZOWE software is running as a Started Task (STC) on a z/OS LPAR. We chose to do this to save on general purpose CPU M...
over 3 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

Use of wildcards in the search option SMU

The use of wildcards in the search option of the SA widgets in SMU. Now you can only filter by default on the beginning of the name or you have to set all kinds of filters (e.g.: starts with and ends with).
almost 4 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

Provide AT-TLS Support for EKMF Web

A recent pen test by IBM XForce performed on our z/OS systems identified a vulnerability where the TCP port used by EKMF was not using https. In attempting to remediate this condition it was discovered that secure https browser access to EKMF-Web ...
over 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 3 Functionality already exists

EKMF Web should support the ability to import CIPHER keys from an existing CKDS.

Given that CIPHER keys are the recommended key type for DSE, EKMF Web should fully support the ability to import these keys when they have been previously defined in a keystore.
about 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web / UKO for z/OS 2 Future consideration

QRadar/SIEM integration

EKMF Web must generate security related events that can be consumed by IBM QRadar similar third-party SIEM systems. At minimum, these events must include- Logons, both success and failure- logoffs, when performed by a user, logoffs due to timout m...
almost 3 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 1 Future consideration

Perform ITM/Omegamon actions in SMU

It is useful to have a possibility to perform ITM actions (such as cancelling CICS transactions and DB2 threads) in SMU. Of course, this will then have to be done under the userid of the user, so that everything is neatly arranged via the existin...
over 3 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration