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Security

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    Automatic Management of TLS Certificates

    Since the validity period of SSL/TLS certificates will be reduced from the current 398 days to 47 days starting in March 2029, managing certificates manually will become very difficult due to the significantly shortened validity.Therefore, a servi...
    5 months ago in IBM i / Security 3 Under review

    Tcp server certificate hot reload

    A few days ago I read an article reporting the future intention to go to decrease the duration of certificates, it would be important to make sure that the application of such certificates would not require the shutdown and subsequent activation o...
    5 months ago in IBM i / Security 4 Under review

    Issue audit journal entry when Password Level 4 hash is generated at signon.

    For high availability replication products, knowledge is needed when a user profile changes. In most cases an audit journal entry is issued. However, when both the source and target systems are at OS 7.5 or 7.6 and a user profile does not yet have...
    3 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Under review

    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...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Under review

    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...
    6 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Under review

    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...
    7 months ago in IBM i / Security 3 Under review

    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...
    7 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Under review

    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

    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...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 4 Under review

    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

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