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Exit program on Workstation log in.

QLMTDEVSSN is obsolete. People should be allowed to have multiple sessions on a single workstation. The days of twinax are dead. What I would rather have is an exit point program or some other method that when someone logs into a workstation I can...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 6 Not under consideration

Read only Access and Specific Auditing to DCM

Recently I raised a case #TS004338549 for getting support on DCM (Digital Certificate Manager). During interaction, I came to know that there is no mechanism to do the below two tasks within DCM. 1) There is no future to give "Read only Access" to...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 6 Future consideration

Add/Enhance keystore management

We currently have the ability to work with the Java Keystore from within ACS, under Key Management. I would like to see some function added to work with the IBMi *System keystores. I understand there is the 'Key Management' tool that comes with th...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Not under consideration

Adopted authority to SFTP connections

Hello team, since a couple of days we are fighting with the SFTP connections, what is the problem? For BATCH process, there is no problem because you can use the "user profile" for the submission but... for interactive transactions, the sftp conne...
6 months ago in IBM i / Security 3 Under review

System Journal during restore

During scratch load (system restore after crash), the original System journal (QAUDJRN) was not restored instead, new journal was created using timestamp as name. This has created major problem for the system replication software (MIMIX) since it ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 4 Not under consideration

Backport DCM API's to V7R3

Please backport the DCM API's back to V7R3. Use Case: Automation of certificates in V7R3 is now impossible while the release will exist for quite some time.
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 6 Not under consideration

Allow programs and service programs to FORCE library at top of system library list.

When creating or changing Commands and Menus (*CMD, *MNU) objects you can set the PRDLIB, which cause the specified library to be inserted between the system library list and the user library list in the library list order. This provides a nice wa...
6 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Under review

New command WRKSVRAUTE

We are increasingly using server authentication entries in our environment for managing DDM(IP) and DRDA authorisation of users between systems. Whilst we can display the entries for an individual user with DSPSVRAUTE or use the QSYS2.DRDA_AUTHENT...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Security 5 Not under consideration

IBMi DCM software related functions

Hi,Our business belongs to finance area therefore we have lot of audit and we are sense for security.I would ask the review provided DCM functions because several times we faced limitation compering other platform.for example.- self signed CA (roo...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Security 11 Future consideration

Creation of a new function for certificate management in DCM

Currently, to manage certificates, the user needs *ALLOBJ and *SECADM permissions. I would like to have a function that allows users to manage certificates without needing these permissions.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 1 Under review