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Add long username for addition to current userprofile to enable login with longer usernames on smb, ftp, web or odbc etc

With the long password we can use passwords > 10 chars.Maybe it is possible to add a additional field to the usrprf to enable logins from all others then green screen with longer usernames.
6 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Not under consideration

IBM i DCM - Last used timestamp for each certificate

For the purpose of housekeeping the certificate stores in IBM i DCM, it would be very useful to enhance DCM to be able to show the "Last Used Time Stamp" and also "Use Count" for EACH certificate in the store so that system admin can efficiently s...
7 months ago in IBM i / Security 2 Submitted

Digital Certificate Manager - Automatically import CA certificates from 'Populate with CAs' list on certificate import if signature matches.

We currently have a 'Populate with CAs' function in DCM that has most well known third party CA certificates that can be selected and imported into the *SYSTEM store. It would be extremely helpful if we could automatically import CA certificates f...
9 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Submitted

NX- And In-Core-Acceleration To Achieve Energy-Efficient Quantum-Safe Encryption For IBM i

This request is for activating in-core- or/and nested acceleration to support the advertised quantum-safe encryption also for IBM i.Other methods (as described below) are neither fast enough nor a simple solution for customers who use cloud or onl...
9 months ago in IBM i / Security 3 Under review

Allow CHGAUTCOL command to enable authority collection on objects with type *USRPRF

Use case: A user profile object is secured with *PUBLIC *USE, allowing anyone on the system to submit jobs to run under that unsecured user profile. Securing the *USRPRF with *PUBLIC *EXCLUDE might break some existing processes which rely on the e...
10 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Under review

Allow 'Show Password' capability for command parameters

Many modern APIs where password inputs are expected have an option to 'show password' as it is typed. Define a standard function key to use when prompting a command that will cause the field where the cursor is sitting to show the input (overridin...
10 months ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

Show profile will be disabled msg even for non-valid profiles.

OS 7.5 changed to provide the same error message when signing on for the case where a userid is not defined or a userid is valid but the password is wrong. This was intended to not 'leak' information to a bad actor that they guessed a valid userid...
10 months ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

Digital Certificate Manager, Import Certificate by retrieve from port

Importing certificates into the DCM is a slow task that requires the transfer of files, files that are not always readily available. As in the WAS console, it would be useful to acquire the certificate directly from the Server through its IP addre...
10 months ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

Correct the QSYLOBJP API Documentation

Today, the QSYLOBJP API documentation states that it creates: a list of objects that adopt an object owner's authority In the classic way of thinking, this would be program/srvpgm objects that have USRPRF(*OWNER) set a creation time. However what ...
11 months ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

Allow Ability to Mass Unassign Certificates from a Service

In IBMi Digital Certificate Manager (DCM) you can assign a certificate to multiple Services in a single screen. If you need to remove the certificate assignment you have to go into each service and remove the certificate. For some certificates, th...
12 months ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

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