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Enterprise Key Management Foundation

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Provide a validation job for the setup of the two DB2 databases required by EKMF Web.

EKMF Web requires two databases (one for key management and one for the scanner) that incorporates many structures and fields. Providing a validation job will ease the DBA's job and prevent frustration when it is time for the user (not the DBA) to...
almost 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 3 Delivered

Providing capability within GUI to download/export Audit Log and Dataset Dashboard information to provide to auditors.

M&T Bank team shared that this would be helpful for them in showing the audit log information to auditors without requiring them to give access to EKMF Web directly. They mentioned that this capability was something they'd automatically expect...
about 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 0 Delivered

EKMF Web - Make Log available listing keys that have been activated but did not get installed

Make a log available listing key(s) that have been activated in EKMF Web but did not get installed in the CKDS. In such case, functionality needs to detect a key created, activated, but did not get installed. This key is then added to this log wit...
over 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 0 Delivered

Allow download of non-sensitive key information

A download information in CSV format using the Table view selected columns would simplify management of key inventory tracking. It would also be useful to perform reconciliation between EKMF Web and with the z/OS based CKDS and PKDS datasets (whic...
over 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 1 Delivered

Ability to update Ciphers in server.env as a parm for EKMFWeb

- Add the ability to update Ciphers to use in server.env as a parm for EKMFWeb . - It will be helpful to change or update ciphers we want EKMF Web to use . - If added in a parm, one don't have to go and update the server.xml to add thh desired cip...
about 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web / UKO for z/OS 0 Delivered

Use function to determine key's activation date with custom tag values

To simplify the generating/import-process you could implement the activation date in a template to be dependent on the used custom tags. Just like the way you are determining the key-label with a function implementing (custom) tags you could also ...
almost 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Workstation 3 Delivered

EKMF Web Browser interface should provide full capability for managing passwords required by userids.

While the EKMF Web browser does provide a facility for changing passwords, it does not support changing the password if the current password has already expired. For example, if a new RACF userid is setup, with an expired password (because local c...
almost 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 2 Delivered

The default filter for key templates and keys should include Managing system=Web

When working with a combined EKMF Web & Workstation setup, EKMF Web will, by default, show all keys and key templates.Changing the filter to only show key templates and keys that EKMF Web can work with will simplify the workflow and improve th...
about 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 0 Delivered

Allow the hostname specified in Liberty's server.env file to map to "localhost"

When performing DR testing we use different DNS names for the LPARs hosing EKMF. As part of each test we have to change the hostname in server.env to the DR DNS name. To alleviate this need it would be nice if Liberty would allow the hostname to b...
over 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 1 Delivered

Improve reporting within the UI to allow users to select various report criteria

We would like to have the ability to query keys and templates within EKMF Web using a variety of scenarios and have the ability to generate/export a report. THe report could be in CSV or HTML format. The query can probably be achieved using dynami...
over 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 1 Delivered