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    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...
    over 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

    Add a function usage that allows selected users to restore programs with adopted authority, overriding the QALWOBJRST system value.

    For security, a customer may by default set QALWOBJRST to disallow adopted authority objects to be restored. When a justified restore is needed, the setting is relaxed for a short time and for all users rather than just for the user(s) that actual...
    10 days ago in IBM i / Security 2 Submitted

    IBM I DCM API should be created to Delete old or Expired Certificates from the DCM Certificate Store

    When Managing Certificates on many IBM I systems, we need the capability to remove old and Expired Certificates from the DCM Certificate Store.Looking at the available APIs for DCM https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/digital-certificate-manager-apis...
    3 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Under review

    Add an additional special authority *NONSYS

    With the introduction of a SPCAUT *NONSYS which which should include *ALLOBJ WITHOUT operating system libraries the system administrator should be able to easily seperate e.g. developers from system administrators. This option would avoid accident...
    5 months ago in IBM i / Security 3 Not under consideration

    Quick Enable/Disable user profiles

    This would be a quick function for admins/support personnel to use to enable/disable an account without invoking CHGUSRPRF or Option 2 STATUS(*DISABLED). Create an Option 27 and 28 to Enable/Disable user profile from the WRKUSRPRF screen.
    7 months ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

    Allow finer grained 'Adopt Authority'

    This idea will allow ISVs and other to help close security exposures related to programs that adopt authority. Currently a program can be set to USRPRF(*OWNER) to have it adopt authority. Different programs within an application have needs for acc...
    7 months ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

    UID for IBM i Digital Certificate Manager

    I would like to bring to your attention a potential enhancement opportunity concerning the IBM i Digital Certificate Manager (DCM). During the process of Certificate Signing Request (CSR) creation, we have observed that there is no available field...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

    WRKFCNUSG Auditing

    It would be nice if any adds/changes/deletes that occur when using the WRKFCNUSG process would be tracking in the Security Audit Journal for the logical replication apps can keep the authorities in sync between SRC and TGT replication sets.
    11 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Functionality already exists

    Extend field in SSL trace output that includes cipher information

    When analyzing output of SSL trace data, this may involve dumping the output to a spreadsheet for further analysis and comparison against cipher lists from QSSLCSL and/or SST (TLSCONFIG). The challenge when comparing data is that since many cipher...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 2 Under review

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