Release Notes Broadcom ACF2 Adapter

Release Notes



IBM® Security Verify Governance

Broadcom ACF2 for z/OS Adapter




























First Edition (December 11, 2023)

This edition applies to the latest version of IBM Security Verify Governance Adapter for ACF2 and to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in new editions.

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Contents

Table of Contents

Preface 4

Adapter Features and Purpose 4

License Agreement 4

Contents of this Release 5

Adapter Version 5

New Features 6

Closed Issues 9

Known Limitations 13

Installation and Configuration Notes 14

Configuration 14

Corrections to the Installation and Configuration sections of the adapter guide. 15

Chapter 1: Overview 15

Chapter 2: Planning 15

Chapter 3: Installing 15

Chapter 4: Upgrading 15

Chapter 5: Configuring 15

Chapter 6: Troubleshooting 15

Known issues and limitations : 15

Chapter 7: Reference 15

Starting and stopping the adapter 16

Changing the number of active threads 16

Customizing or Extending Adapter Features 16

Getting Started 16

Support for Customized Adapters 16

IBM Security Verify Resources: 17

Supported Configurations 18

Installation Platform 18

Trademarks 21

Preface

Welcome to the IBM Security Verify Governance Adapter for Broadcom ACF2.


These Release Notes contain information for the following products that was not available when the IBM Security Verify server manuals were created:


Adapter Features and Purpose

The ACF2 for z/OS Adapter is designed to create and manage ACF2 for z/OS accounts. The adapter runs in ”agent” mode and must be installed on z/OS. One adapter is installed per ACF2 installation..


The IBM Security Verify Governance Adapters are powerful tools that require administrator level authority. Adapters operate much like a human system administrator, creating accounts, permissions and home directories. Operations requested from the IBM Security Verify server will fail if the adapter is not given sufficient authority to perform the requested task. IBM recommends that this adapter run with administrative permissions.

License Agreement

Review and agree to the terms of the IBM Security Verify product license prior to using this product. The license can be viewed from the "license" folder included in the product package.

Contents of this Release

Adapter Version

Component

Version

Release Date

December 11, 2023

Adapter Version

10.0.2

Component Versions

Adapter Build 10.0.002.00

Profile 10.0.002.00

ADK 6.06.0035 z/OS

enRole Resource Management API 6.0.6

OpenSSL 1.0.2q

Documentation

Please check out the latest documentation on the IBM Knowledge Center.

Select the latest server release to navigate to the latest version of the adapter documentation.


New Features

Internal#

RFE/CASE#

Description




Items included in current release




No changes in the current release




Items included in release 10.0.1

RTC 187573

N/A

Rebranding IBM Security Identity to IBM Security Verify




Items included in 7.1.32 release




No changes in the current release




Items included in 7.1.31 release

RTC 186215

TS000061080

Add option to run the ACF2 unload outside of the adapters control.

RTC 186216


Reinstate configurable space for intermediate data sets.




Items included in 7.1.30 release

RTC 184640


Add an option to automatically delete temporary reconciliation data sets




Items included in 7.1.29 release




No changes in the current release




Items included in 7.1.28 release




No changes in the current release




Items included in 7.1.27 release

RTC 182213


IGI 5.2.5 support -

As an adapter developer for z/OS I need to add support for supporting data and canonical values to the IGI profiles




Items included in 7.1.26 release




No changes in the current release




Items included in 7.1.25 release




No changes in the current release




Items included in 7.1.24 release




No changes in the current release




Items included in 7.1.23 release

RTC 174414


As an ADK for z/OS developer I need to upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.2o to address PSIRT CVE-2018-0739




Items included in 7.1.22 release

RTC 52661

RTC 173352

115005

As an AD for z/OS developer I need to offer the ability to explicitly disable TLS1.0 in all ADK based adapters.

RTC 173354

TS000074249

As an ADK for z/OS developer I need to add diagnostic messages to the ADK that allow troubleshooting 2-way ssl connections

RTC 173351


As an ADK for z/OS developer I need to upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.2n




Items included in 7.1.21 release

RTC 170056


Include specialFlags in targetprofile.json




Items included in 7.1.20 release

RTC 163356


Enable SSL by default in the ISPF installation panels

RTC 166577


Add tooltips to customlabels.properties




Items included in 7.1.19 release

RTC158896

N/A

Status tab in IGI target.json, erLastAccessDate in target.json

RTC156626

N/A

Upgrade expat libraries to 2.2.0




Items included in 7.1.18 release

RTC154238


Update OpenSSL to release 1.0.2j

RTC154263


PMR 42182,122,000

Disable SSLV3 and RC4 ciphers and certify TLS 1.1 / 1.2 is supported by the ADK

RTC156347

IV32546

Adapter appears to be running while it was unable to connect to the socket.




Items included in 7.1.17 release

RTC 152024


Include IGI specific profile with JSON in the adapter package

RTC 152027


Update the adapter panels

RTC 152028


Include adapter mapping file in the adapter package

RTC 152030


Include a license folder in the adapter package

RTC 152024


Add two initial lines to CustomLabels.properties which are required for translation





Items included in 7.0.16 release

RTC 149041


Performance enhancements to the single user account lookup operation.




Items included in 7.0.13 release




RTC 124240


RFE 67723

ACF2 Password/Passphrase rules used for random password generation




Items included in 6.0.8 release




No changes in the current release




Items included in 6.0.7 release

RTC 116310


Password/pass phrase design independent of password/pass phrase policies.




Items included in 6.0.6 release

RTC 113711


Add OMVS AUTOUID support




Items included in 6.0.5 release

RTC 95781


Support for custom boolean attributes defined in the ACFFDR to define additional privileges added.



Items included in 6.0.4 release

RTC 99347


Support for additional pass phrase and password profile attributes added:

PWP-HST
PWP-TOD
PWPA1TOD
PWP-MAXD

#PSWDCNT

#PWD-TOD

KEYFROM



Items included in release 6.0.3


RTC 98320


Added support for ACF2 pass phrases



Items included in release 6.0.2



None




Items included in release 6.0.1



ISIM 6.0 release



Removal of the use of APPC



Closed Issues

Internal#

APAR/CASE#

Description




Items closed in the current release

SVGAD-995

DT239475

TS013644755

Adapter: issue in single account lookup ACF2 adapter

issue in header, UI# and eracf2active duplicate value

SVGAD-1277


Verify ACF2 adapter with z/OS 3.1




Items closed in release 10.0.1

RTC 187968


Upgrade to Expat 2.2.10

RTC 187970

TS004282403

erAcf2SECVIO value causes a BigDecimal exception




Items closed in release 7.1.32

RTC 186767

TS003554276

ISIM_ADAPTER_CIPHER_LIST variable is not having any effect with RACF adapter 6.0.39

RTC 186768

TS003680545

Error when processing unmodified values in reply message

RTC 186769

TS003568847

Abend when processing reconciliation request xmls




Items closed in release 7.1.31

RTC 186218

TS003341275

Adapter STC does not abort when running out of memory required for

new connection pthreads.

RTC 186213

TS003405510

vulnerability CVE-2016-2183(SWEET32) reported on ISIM V6.0

RTC 186214

DT040780/TS0

01615497

Memory leak in ConnectionTest operations.




Items closed in release 7.1.30

RTC 184639

TS002331915

The lookup transaction doesn’t consider non-default @HEADER and @UID definitions.




Items closed in release 7.1.29

RTC 184015

TS002309740

Adapter abend 40D, RC10 with the below messages in the CEEDUMP

5 _ermAlloc +00000076 libErmApi.dll Call

6 ErmSBCSStrtoUCS2Str

+000000C0 libErmApi.dll


RTC 184017

TS002309740

Excessive non-ISIM server connections causing abend

Starting SSL handshake (OpenSSL)...

Handshake failed. Error code: 1

SD_SEND to socket

Start SSL cleanup

Shutting down SSL server...

Received a segmentation violation...

RTC 183205

TS000891911

Debug output in agentCfg tool causes DAML protocol configuration issues




Items closed in release 7.1.28

RTC 182687


Disallow external calls to agentCfg port

RTC 182516

IJ12296

Reconciliation doesn't return all accounts.

RTC 182686


Upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.2.q




Items closed in release 7.1.27

RTC 181308


Upgrade to ICU 3.6

RTC 181306

TS000891911

Hebrew writing direction

RTC 181301


Incorrect entry in adapter log for EXPORT data set

RTC 181302

TS001548171

IKJ56702I INVALID USERID returns error for account DELETE where this should return a success as the account no longer exists in RACF

RTC 181310


Upgrade to Expat 2.2.6

RTC 181303


Upgrade to z/OS ADK 6.0.6




Items closed in release 7.1.26

RTC 179043


Upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.2p




Items closed in release 7.1.25

RTC 177213

TS000991007

Add an option to continue to use tsocmd to allow authorized TSO/E

commands to be executed from ISIMEXIT.

RTC 177214

N/A

Invalid status logged for ACF67030: caacf2Adm: success

ACF67030 INVALID OPERAND

RTC 177215

TS000934024

ACF2 NAME value corrupted with values from another thread on

account ADD




Items closed in release 7.1.24

RTC 176685


rc > 0 on pre-modify ISIMEXIT doesn't fail the whole operation

RTC 176687

TS000934024

Error for ACF60014 and incorrect name value on account insert

RTC 176690

TS000933551

ISIM ACF2 adapter floods the z/OS consoles (syslog/operlog) with repeating messages for attributes #PSWDCNT and #PWD-TOD




Items closed in release 7.1.23

RTC 174141

TS000074249

two-way SSL connections don't work – verify errors

RTC 174576

TS000116909

ACF2 adapter 6.0.22 ABEND during account ADD




Items closed in release 7.1.22

RTC 173353

TS000114491

As an ADK for z/OS developer I need to ensure that manually dropping the DAML_PORT socket doesn't result in a loop

RTC 173360

TS000013259

Since installing 6.0.29 customer cannot longer change the DAML password

RTC 173656

TS000116909

As an adapter for ACF2 developer I need to replace the ACF2 command interface with a higher-performance implementation

RTC 173723


Attempt to destroy context for invalid socket results in dump in _ermListFree




Items closed in release 7.1.21

RTC 170052

TS000037180

Use configurable HLQ for temporary SYSIN and SYSPRINT

RTC 170053

TS000016341

Adapter returns a failure for informational message ACF6C019

RTC170054

TS000013752

The ACF2 adapter fails with insert error.

RTC170055


PSIRT Malformed X.509 IPAddressFamily could cause OOB read (CVE-2017-3735)




Items closed in release 7.1.20

RTC 166463


PMR

22742,003,756

RSA key length used by certTool increased from 1024 to 4096, which

allows it to be NIST compliant beyond 2021.

RTC 166575


APAR

IV98963

IRX0043I Error running ISIMEXIT: TSO/E address space specific functions can't be accessed.

RTC 166576

PMR 23652,999,616

ACF2 single user lookup fails




Items closed in release 7.1.19

RTC 162836

IV90803

ISIMLUSR reconciliation step fails due to a too small data buffer size.

HLQ is not configurable during installation.

RTC 162841

IV90803

findAmap error when an attribute value contained the string “NO”.

Incorrect year for several PACKDATE attributes.

No heapsize _CEERUNOPTS settings predefined.




Items closed in release 7.1.18

RTC 154265

PMR

08179,999,616

ACF2 adapter delaying due to lack of available threads

RTC 156860


IDMAP delete value request results in modify set value to empty


RTC 156861

IV90803

ACF 2 Adapter - fix from 6.1.16 missing in 6.1.17





Items closed in release 7.1.17

RTC 134910

N/A

If an account is not defined in the BASE segment, but is in other segments this might result in an error being returned for the previous (in alphabetical order) account being returned during a reconciliation or lookup operation.

RTC 152025


Unknown values PWP-ENC and PWP-LEN appear in ACF2SCHM and ISIMSCHM

RTC 152026


Adapter generates incorrect commands when adding/modifying IDMAP fields for an account

RTC 152342

IV90803

Reconciliation fails when returning data for unsupported segments




Items closed in release 7.0.16

RTC149785


Sticky bit set for adapter read-only directories

RTC151016

PMR 06782,99,616

Fixed adapter abend that occurs while processing date/time attributes




Items closed in release 7.0.15

RTC 134666


OpenSSL upgrade to 1.0.1m

RTC 134210

IV78675


Dates are corrupted during reconciliation after changing the account's password.




Items closed in release 7.0.13

RTC 124038


Updated LREC size to prevent abend “IEF450I TIMA518R ITIMLINF - ABEND=S002 U0000 REASON=00000018 778” when processing large UID strings




Items closed in release 6.0.8

RTC 122805


Part of long pass phrase is displayed in adapter log

RTC 120578


When setting ACF2 Pass Phrase ACF61003 INVALID KEY returns in logs




Items closed in release 6.0.7

RTC 116310

IV65077
The adapter does not return daylight savings time based values to the ISIM server.




Items closed in release 6.0.6

RTC 112239

IV61213

Inconsistent behaviour ACF2 adapter when performing multiple PW changes




Items closed in release 6.0.5

RTC 95871

IV45874

Custom boolean attributes processing errors




Items closed in release 6.0.4

RTC 95781

IV45874

Temporary Data set created during reconciliation not cataloged




Items closed in release 6.0.3

RTC 95781

IV45874

Temporary Data set created during reconciliation not cataloged – Beta fix




Items closed in release 6.0.2



Problems with parallel processing


IV25449

Error in setting the READ_TIMEOUT parameter.




Items closed in release 6.0.1



None

Known Limitations

INTERNAL#

APAR#Know Issue

PMR# / Description


N/A

Random passwords/pass phrases generated by the adapter do not implement site specific GSO Password/Pass phrase policies


N/A

This release of the ACF2 Adapter does not support FIPS.


RTC 52399

N/A

The adapter is designed to read its configuration file on start up. If the configuration file is not found, the adapter will create a new default configuration file. The creation of this configuration file is not an event that is written to the adapter log file. Please ensure TCP/IP is fully initialized and the file systems are mounted before starting the adapter. Under rare conditions where prerequisites for startup have not been met, the adapter may overwrite a customer's configuration file with a new default configuration file.


N/A

This version of the adapter does not support the following data segments/ user profile records:

  • DCE

  • KERB

  • KERBLINK

  • KEYRING

  • LINUX

  • OPERPARM

  • MFA


N/A

This version of the adapter does not support multi-value fields and/or partial fields in the @HEADER and/or @UID string definitions.


Installation and Configuration Notes


See your products specific ACF2 Adapter Installation and Configuration Guide for detailed instructions.

Configuration


ADK version 6.04 and higher offer a DAML PROTOCOL setting that allows you to disable TLSv1.0.

ADK version 6.0.3 and higher no longer support SSLV3 and RC4 ciphers. The Verify server should be configured to use TLS 1.1 or higher. This is done by adding the $ITIM/data/enRole.properties parameter. For example:


com.ibm.daml.jndi.DAMLContext.SSL_PROTOCOL=TLSv1.1


Possible values are:


TLSv1.1

TLS v1.1 protocol (defined by RFC 4346).

TLSv1.2

TLS v1.2 protocol (defined by RFC 5246).






Corrections to the Installation and Configuration sections of the adapter guide.


Chapter 1: Overview


No updates for the current release


Chapter 2: Planning


No updates for the current release


Chapter 3: Installing


No updates for the current release



Chapter 4: Upgrading


No updates for the current release


Chapter 5: Configuring


No updates for the current release


Chapter 6: Troubleshooting

Known issues and limitations :

add:

If specific fields that belong to the ACFFDR UI or HEADER are not returned during a filtered reconciliation, it is possible that the adapter does not run APF authorized.

Validate if the adapter binaries and libraries are APF authorized in the <adapter_readonly_home>/bin and <adapter_readonly_home/lib> folders.


Chapter 7: Reference


No updates for the current release




Starting and stopping the adapter

Before you start the adapter, ensure that TCP/IP is active.

Changing the number of active threads

The ACF2 adapter requires one process per thread plus 8. The default settings are for 3 threads for each of the four types or requests which is a maximum of 12 active threads which equates to 20 processes (12 + 8). This is below the default MAXUSERPROC value of 25. If you change the maximum thread count variables via agentCfg then you might need to increase the MAXUSERPROC parameter in the parmlib member BPXPRMxx.

Customizing or Extending Adapter Features

The IBM Security Verify Governance Adapters can be customized and/or extended. The type and method of this customization may vary from adapter to adapter.

Getting Started

Customizing and extending adapters requires a number of additional skills. The developer must be familiar with the following concepts and skills prior to beginning the modifications:



Note: This adapter supports customization only through the use of pre-Exec and post-Exec scripting. The ACF2 for z/OS adapter has REXX scripting options. Please see the ACF2 adapter for z/OS Installation and Configuration guide for additional details.



Support for Customized Adapters

The integration to the IBM Security Verify server – the adapter framework – is supported. However, IBM does not support the customizations, scripts, or other modifications. If you experience a problem with a customized adapter, IBM Support may require the problem to be demonstrated on the GA version of the adapter before a case is opened.







IBM Security Verify Resources:

Please check out the latest documentation on the IBM Knowledge Center.

Select the latest server release to navigate to the latest version of the adapter documentation.



Supported Configurations

Installation Platform

The IBM Security Verify Manager Adapter supports any combination of the following product versions.


Adapter Installation Platform

z/OS V2.5

z/OS V3.1


Managed Resource:

CA ACF2 R16



IBM Security Verify Governance:

IBM Security Verify Governance v10.x


IBM Security Verify Governance Identity Manager:

IBM Security Verify Identity v10.x


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