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Security

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Performance improvement request

This customer has applied this PTF （MF64695）to correspond to "the vulnerabilities known as Specter and Meltdown", but as a result it causes performance down. Although they are convinced about performance down partly because of emergency response, ...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Not under consideration

Need enhancements to ADDSVRAUTE and CHGSVRAUTE command functionality

The use of the ADDSVRAUTE and CHGSVRAUTE commands is limited and prevents us from communicating with more than 1 system without changing the SVTAUTE command. To communicate with additional systems, the CHGSVRAUTE command has to be used to set the ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Security 5 Not under consideration

fast path should be on the new digitial certificate manager (dcm)

the old digital certificate manager had fast path so why doesn't the new digital certificate manager have fast path
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

Make managing ciphers in QSSLCSL easier using 2-digit cipher codes and use these codes everywhere

It would be easier to manage ciphers in the system value using the 2-digit codes simply because ciphers also have to be managed in SST (SSLCONFIG/TLSCONFIG) where the 2-digit code in required when adding/removing ciphers to the eligible list. Give...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 1 Under review

Security settings on Save Restore

Add ability to override source security settings when restoring an object. Use Case: When saving an object on one system and restoring to another system will keep the settings from the object which already exists on the system being restored to. W...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Security 5 Not under consideration

Provide ability to control SSL counters (in SST) from OS command line using an API

We are running v7r4 and find the SSL counters that are available within SST very useful. A challenge we face is that due to our a weekly system interruption for full system save and IPL, these counters are disabled and get reset. It would desirabl...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 2 Under review

Add Help Text at bottom while changing the password without Reason Code

When user changes profile password and if the password does not meet password rules, error message display with reason code at the bottom of the screen. It is difficult for end user to understand or find the description. Hence if the description d...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Security 1 Not under consideration

Add Group Profile *ALL to Group Name parameter on QGYOLAUS

The QGYOLAUS does not provide a integrated way to list all User Profiles that have are members of any Group Profile. Today we can list all user Profiles that are not members of any group profile. or all users who are members of one specific group ...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

Present All New Password validation errors at once.

I am a consultant. I work on MANY systems each with their own set of password rules. At times I spend as much as half a bloody hour changing my password. WHY? Because I do not have access to their password rules. As such I attempt a new password. ...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

Add user defined fields to user profiles

Adding a few user defined fields to users profiles would allow customers to directly attach useful information to user profiles. I suggest five 10 character fields. having one field long enough to store an email address would also be very helpful....
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / Security 4 Not under consideration

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