MegaCryption - Enterprise Cryptography for z/OS, WIN, UNIX & LINUX

MegaCryption provides an OpenPGP non-proprietary, cost-effective approach to encrypting critical data at rest and in motion.

MegaCryption provides encryption, data integrity and digital signature functions for virtually any type of data within a z/OS, WIN, UNIX or LINUX environment. MegaCryption is a file level encryption tool that can secure FTP transmissions by keeping the data encrypted before, during and after transmission. MegaCryption contains the most flexible and complete set of cryptographic functions available on the mainframe today, allowing file processing at the point of origin, rather than having to transfer data back and forth to other systems. In addition to files being transferred off site, data stored at rest is also easily protected. Multi-platform support is offered as well as courtesy software for your business partners. MegaCryption fully complements any communication level encryption tool, can easily exploit ICSF and interoperates seamlessly with such products as PGP and GnuPG.

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CryptoMon - ISPF Cryptographic Key Manager

ISPF Cryptographic Key Manager. Provides a comprehensive, behind-the-scenes look at your data center’s mainframe cryptography.

An organization’s very existence may depend on the quality of its security. Cryptography – the encrypting and decrypting of information that is deemed to be private and confidential – is an extremely important component of an organization’s security program. It provides an additional level of security should an intruder breach other aspects of your security system. To help you implement cryptography in your mainframe site, the z/OS system provides several hardware and software components, be they IBM’s or third-party products.

ICSF (Integrated Cryptographic Service Facility) is the IBM licensed program that provides access to the hardware cryptographic feature. It supports hashing, digital signature, conventional as well as public-key cryptography and other cryptographic features. Its main strength is secure key cryptography: secret keys or private keys can never be found in a readable form outside the cryptographic hardware.

The issue here is that the people in charge of security have very little information about how cryptography and ICSF are implemented. The cryptographic control data sets that ICSF uses may contain errors or be out of sync. Cryptographic keys may have been created, that you know nothing about. Problems may be looming, such as keys that are about to expire as well as digital certificates (that are in fact a specific type of key). RACF may not correctly protect keys or ICSF services. Several types of exceptions and concerns are checked. Security violations of all sorts or some important cryptographic events may occur and go unnoticed.

CryptoMon has been specifically designed to display the missing information. It is the ideal product for enterprise data centers that make an everyday use of cryptography and want to know what happens under the cover. Not only does it provide you, the user of z/OS cryptography, with a comprehensive tool for readily monitoring your cryptographic system, but it also enables you to invoke crypto services to accomplish some specific housekeeping tasks.

As a non-invasive mainframe product, CryptoMon is also quite easy to install and implement. The first real world use of the product is a matter of hours, since its ISPF interface is very straightforward.

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ReACT - Enterprise Password Reset & Synchronization

Self-service password reset tool that virtually eliminates password related calls to the Help Desk, saving time and money.

ReACT is a unique application designed to automate the password reset and synchronization process across the entire enterprise. Unlike other tools, ReACT eliminates the need to reset a password to a temporary value. ReACT allows the end user to reset their own password at any time without the need to change their password again at sign-on. ReACT virtually eliminates password reset related calls to the Help Desk.

ReACT helps close the security exposures opened by a forgotten password. It securely authenticates user requests for a password reset and then establishes a permanent, immediately usable password on all effected systems.

As a centralized, enterprise-wide password reset tool, ReACT provides support for virtually all operating systems and applications within the enterprise including RACF [z/OS], Novell, Windows 98, NT, 2000, and more. ReACT easily incorporates custom and packaged applications, as well as unique operating systems through the ActiveX® scripting component.

ReACT provides security professionals, Help Desk teams and corporate Auditors with additional information security assurance by logging and reporting all activities related to a password reset. It captures user information when a reset is requested, logs all successful or failed authentication activities as well as any successful or failed password reset activities. Additionally, ReACT has the ability to provide automated alerts to responsible personnel for specific events, such as a consistent reset failure or perceived attempts at hacking.

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ERQ - Automated RACF Administration and Reporting

Easy RACF Query

ERQ is an automated RACF administration & reporting utility that is simple, powerful, and best of all, inexpensive! ERQ is ISPF driven. With the push of a key, reports may be produced, RACF commands may be automatically generated, and ‘clean-up’ tasks may be streamlined – with little or no training necessary. Extensive field help messages guide the user through the product. In Addition, ERQ enables RACF analysts to create their own custom RACF applications using a set of straightforward ISPF services.

Designed and developed for RACF Administrators by RACF Administrators with over 25 years of continuous hands-on experience – ERQ includes all of the online functions necessary to automate the entire security administration process, including many options not found in other third party tools.

All ERQ Online Services screens are completely customizable, having been built using ERQ Programming Services, it is a snap to add new functions and/or modify existing ones.

ERQ allows you to customize the screens with the functions that you use most often. ERQ provides all of the tools you need to manage and monitor security in one easy-to-use package.

ERQ is also an invaluable programming aide that retrieves RACF information for REXX and/or CLIST custom written RACF applications. ERQ increases productivity by providing you with easy access to both the live and archived RACF database.

ERQ provides a library of sample executable applications that the user can easily modify to fit their environment’s needs. Administrators now have the ability to write their own applications without seeking the assistance of the system programmers.

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SMFUTIL / SMFVIEW — SMF Data Management

SMFUTIL can reduce the dump & clear time by up to 70%

SMFUTIL is the SMF data management and movement utility that S390 installations around the world are utilizing to automate their SMF processing. SMFUTIL combines speed with extreme flexibility and versatility in the handling of SMF data. It greatly enhances the availability and accessibility of SMF data while reducing the resources required to process this large, yet valuable data source. It eliminates the need to write and maintain special purpose SMF processing routines.

Unlike other SMF management programs, SMFUTIL will produce clean archived master files that are cataloged as normal datasets. All datasets produced by SMFUTIL are usable for direct input to any program requiring SMF data. SMFUTIL is not required as a “front-end” processor each time any SMF data is to be accessed, although it can be efficiently used as one to reduce data volume input to an SMF application such as SAS when a large archive file is to be processed. Access to SMF data may be granted selectively based on “site specified criteria” by utilizing a security exit point built into SMFUTIL. SMF data records selected may optionally be passed to one or more user defined exit modules for processing.

A unique feature is SMFUTIL’s ability to create multiple output datasets with a single pass of the input data. This enables the user to simultaneously create a daily and a month-to-month archive file and optionally create user-defined datasets containing specific record types.

SMFUTIL has the ability to remember where it has archived SMF data, utilizing a proprietary SMF archive data directory. This enables users to retrieve data by supplying the date/time range and system Id required without having to know the datasets the data is stored on. They will be dynamically allocated by SMFUTIL.

SMFVIEW operates as an ISPF based full screen browser and editor for any SMF data source. Using the powerful filtering and data selection capabilities of SMFUTIL, SMFVIEW allows a System Programmer quick and easy access to selected SMF data. A scrollable full screen display of each selected record is present. It displays a hexadecimal dump and EBCDIC translation of the record. Each line on the display is notated with the hex and decimal offset of that line into the record, beginning with the record descriptor word (RDW). This mode allows the data content of the record to be altered at the hex or character level.

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The Info Suite: Info/CPU - Info/DASD – InfoTAPE

As a suite or individually, the Info products provide a global view of your resource performance and utilization.

InfoCPU – CPU / WLM Reporting & Analysis

InfoCPU is a CPU resource reporting system that easily creates graphical reports along with traditional mainframe SYSOUT reports showing overall CPU and individual WLM workload and service class performance and utilization. Trending of your CPU and WLM resource utilization is fully supported. Use InfoCPU to provide management and technical groups, alike, with the data they need to perform capacity planning and performance and tuning decisions in your data center.

InfoDASD

DASD Reporting & Analysis

InfoDASD integrates disk performance, ownership and usage to show a complete picture of your DASD resources using accurate RMF, SMF and DCOLLECT data. InfoDASD simplifies the reporting and analysis of complex DASD environments by providing trending reports and comprehensive graphs on all elements of DASD performance and utilization.

InfoTape

Tape Reporting & Analysis

InfoTAPE is a complete system, which can be used to generate status reports, comprehensive graphs and monthly trend analysis using accurate SMF and tape management system data.

“We have used the InfoTAPE and InfoDASD program products to validate the requirements for upgrading tape and DASD hardware. The charts have been beneficial in helping us reallocate our current hardware resources. In some cases the information has also helped us eliminate the need for additional hardware purchases. The data we gained by using the InfoTAPE reports allowed us to eliminate the purchase of a new SILO.”
- Major US Insurance Provider

“InfoCPU provides the WLM reports we need to present to management on a timely basis…it’s easy to use and allows us to make performance and tuning decisions easily.”
- Large US Manufacturing Co.

InfoTAPE reports on all aspects of your tape device performance, as well as tape media utilization. InfoTAPE also reports on IBM’s VTS (Virtual Tape Server), showing the relationship between physical and virtual drives and mounts, as well as critical statistics surrounding VTS Fast-Ready, the tape volume cache, stages, migrates and reclaimation.

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