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My votes: Security

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Changes to CHGACTPRFL command

The CHGACTPRFL command only allows you to specify individual user id's. Use Case: It would be very beneficial if the command allowed you to "wildcard" the USERID parameter field. For example: ABC* versus ABC123, etc.
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

Digital Certificate Manager

Can it be possible to include some type of logging when using DCM? Use Case: We would like to know when our Server or Client Certificates are being used? This would include from what source and to whom.
about 9 years ago in IBM i / Security 5 Not under consideration

Expand on the Authority Collection process by logging commands that actually use the special authorities granted on user profile

I'm trying to clean up security and while the Authority Collection process is valuable, I need to go a step farther. There are too many IDs with any combination of special authorities, and I do not have a clean way to monitor if it's needed. I wou...
7 months ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

need a new QPWD system value that allows to set case sensitivity mix

need a new QPWD system value that allows to set case sensitivity mix that aligns with the rest of QPWD* system values. We are working on align the IBMi password set with our company policy. but, As per the documentation(IBM), if we do use QPWDRule...
7 months ago in IBM i / Security 4 Not under consideration

A library's CRTOBJAUD setting should be honored for CRTDUPOBJ adding to the library.

This closes a security hole. The library's CRTOBJAUD setting is used to assure that objects created within the library have the auditing desired. However, CRTDUPOBJ will put an object into a library and the auditing is based on the source object's...
9 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Not under consideration

Add an EMAIL space to the *USRPRF object and allow that value to be retrieved with the qsyrusri api and RTVUSRPRF CL command

As we add more and more user profiles, the need to send those users email from the IBM i partition (using whatever) is important. However, today there is no way to associate an email address with an end-user's *USRPRF. For example, if I need to se...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Not under consideration

Allow more than 16 group profiles for a user profile

Actually, one can link a user profile to 16 group profiles. For RCAC performance, we need to link a user profile to more than 16 group profiles.
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Security 1 Not under consideration

IBM i SSO API to integrate with Okta ?

Are there any documentation to integrate IBM i SSO with Okta (IDaaS) Identity as a service.
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

Record/audit all user profile parameters/fields

We log all user profile changes into a database table. This works very well using the user profile exit points (QIBM_QSY_CHG_PROFILE etc). For some time we have decided to store additional information (eg. company number) in the user profile objec...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Security 1 Not under consideration

For China IBM i customer TaiKang. Their business have seize wait for group USRP when jobs do many new objects create action

Just like 2015 CPS 7WMTVZ told, customer find their application job hold exclude seize for group user profile when do QSYCHONR (CHGOBJOWN) or QSYRVAUT (REVOKE OBJECT AUTHORITY COMMAND PROCESSING PROGRAM) action, which is triggered by QUSRCRTUS (cr...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration