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Validating to a RADIUS server for multi factor authentication MFA

IBM needs to modernize it's remote access services to include multi factor authentication.It currently only allows authentication for dial up modems and needs to allow authentication through a RADIUS server for non dial up connections through the ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future 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.
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 6 Not under consideration

Host Service Should Ignore Expired Certificates

Today I experienced that as long as an expired certificate exists, the associated services on power i (e.g. login, database, ddm) do not work and deny access despite the fact there is another certificate that is active on the same services. By del...
3 months ago in IBM i / Security 2 Future consideration

more then 16 group profiles

Actually, you can link a userprofile to 16 groupprofiles. For RCAC performance, we need to link a userprofile to more then 16 groupprofiles. Use Case: this is solely for performance resons when using RCAC! then we can use the IBM standard RCAC fun...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

Multiple QAUD* journal recievers

We would like the option to separate QAUD* journal receivers into multiple receivers depending on audit value specified in QAUDLVL/QAUDLVL2 with the same default security properties. Use Case: With multiple QAUD journal receivers we could select d...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 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...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 6 Future consideration

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 ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Security 4 Not under consideration

Enhancement to DLTUSRPRF command function

DLTUSRPRF is a common OS400 command. The change object owner is a basic and often required parameter function of this command. It should not matter if the owned object is an IFS object. IBM should understand the client desire and need to have this...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

Request to enhance Digital Certificate Manager to be able to manage Java Keystores

Would like to have the ability to use DCM (Digital Certificate Manager) to be able to manage (to create/change/manage/delete) Java keystores. This would include the ability to manage existing java keystores created by java commands. And to be able...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 5 Not under consideration

Simple IBM i user password authentication via Microsoft Active Directory

A simple password authentication from IBM i to Active directory would greatly increase the usability of user profiles on IBM i. Without using SSO/EIM because this does not suit our needs. Use Case: The active directory is the main source when it c...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration