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ANZPRFACT - output to *OUTFILE or *PRINT or to the screen to check which profiles are candidates for disabling

Hello, We would like to use ANZPRFACT functionality/command on regular basis, but not having a chance to check which profiles are candidates for disabling. Idea is to enahnce the ANZPRFACT command to have output to OUTFILE or PRINT or to the scree...
5 months ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

Notify when DCM certificate is near to expire

The improved DCM tool, like its predecessor, does not have notification functionality a few days before certificates expire. It would be very helpful if you can notify us via email or at least in QSYSOPR and set how many days in advance we want yo...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Security 8 Not under consideration

V7R1 should support newer SSL Ciphers

Cryptographic support on V7R1 should support the newer SSL Ciphers that V7R2 and up also have. V7R1 is still a supported OS and since most trading partners are updating the SSL certificates that use updated Ciphers, it means that the clients using...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Security 7 Not under consideration

Generate password based on system value settings

Would like an OS command or process to query the system value password settings and then generate a random password that meets those requirements. Use Case: Helps end users manage their passwords by given them an option to have a random one genera...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Not under consideration

DCM needs a Remove Certificate Assignment option.

The DCM GUI is not intuitive to users when attempting to remove certificate assignments. To remove one certificate assignment, you must go to Manage Application Definitions > select the + for an application > then click on "Assign" and unche...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

Default certificates when installing IBM i and SSL/TLS turned on by default

If we are trying to push customers to use security it would be great to have a default certificate and SSL turned on by default on FTP(s) , TELNET and HTTP connections. Use Case: When we deploy an OS image in most cloud environments (IBM PowerVS a...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Not under consideration

IBMi request new Kerberos ticket

With Enterprise Identity Mapping (EIM) and Kerberos, Windows clients can authenticate to IBMi without supplying a user and password. When the client connects, it supplies IBMi with a Kerberos ticket for authentication. A Kerberos ticket has a fixe...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 5 Not under consideration

Delete EIM identifier and associations when deleting the user profile

When deleting a user profile only the Target EIM association is deleted, the Source EIM association and the EIM identifier remain.Thus, one must log into Nav for i, EIM domain management, to do the remaining deletes. Would like the EIM identifier ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Security 7 Not under consideration

OS Commands and API for DCM Application Export/Import Function

In large environments with many LPARs need to be able to sync/transfer/update application definitions in DCM across without manual GUI configuration. Need capability to export an application (or multiple) to an XML or name-pair type type file; tha...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 5 Not under consideration

IBM i Server exit points

I use the IBM Server exit points to allow/deny and secure functions and access to my Power i LPARs. Use Case: It would be great the be able to get the IP address of the requester passed along in all of the exits. It is available in some of them li...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 7 Not under consideration

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