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SQL function for CVE currency

Customers need a way to audit compliance with IBM i CVEs. Each CVE is published with a corresponding patch from IBM. A SQL function similar to PTF currency will give customers the ability to check the patch status for all CVEs published by IBM. Th...
26 days ago in IBM i / Security 8 Submitted

RACF should support dynamic altering the RACF database configuration

Currently, the names of the RACF databases are defined in the SYS1.PARMLIB(IRRPRM00) parmlib member. Those dataset names become constant for the IPL. They can not be changed without SYSPLEX-wide IPLs which would cause the customer massive outages ...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Security 1 Not under consideration

Integrate SAML and/or OIDC authentication options for IBMi (5250/Navigator/IFS/Printer Output/SSH)

Many businesses are increasingly demanding that standard authentication processes are adhered to for all applications/servers within their environment. Whether we agree with that approach or not, there is extraordinary pressure to fit IBMi into th...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Security 2 Under review

Enhance Security of QUSEADPAUT system value and USEADPAUT in general

This is similar in intent to https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-4498 In support of 'deny by default' security principle, arrangements should be made to only generate programs and service programs with USEADPAUT(*YES), when A) explicitly requested ...
17 days ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

Authority Collection - Size of the collections

Please add options/columns into existing SQL views (object_statistics maybe?) or add new SQL views to see how much the IBM i Authority Collection repositories actually take space. Currently there is no such option and the security administrator/IB...
about 1 month 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...
15 days ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

DCM *SYSTEM store password in admin-cust.xml files

In the security configuration files from ADMIN application servers (ADMIN1, ADMIN3, ....) the *SYSTEM store password is weakly encoded with {xor} and is easy to obtain if you have access to admin-cust.xml file in /QIBM/UserData/OS/ADMININST/[admin...
4 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Future consideration

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...
17 days ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

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...
18 days ago in IBM i / Security 2 Under review

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

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