Monthly Archives: September 2015

5 Easy Ways to Break Your SSO System — and How to Fix It

Posted on 09/09/2015 by Patrick Botz

Single sign-on (SSO) implementations tend to be very stable — unless you make specific system changes without planning ahead. Over the years, I’ve seen a handful problems occur more often than any others.  None of the problems are complicated or … Continue reading →

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A Better Way to Define Your Own Special Authorities

Posted on 09/01/2015 by Patrick Botz

We all know about special authorities, right? Defined by the IBM i operating system, they include *ALLOBJ, *AUDIT, *JOBCTL, *IOSYSCFG, *SAVSYS, *SERVICE, *SECADM and *SPLCTL. A few months ago I wrote about a set of IBM i APIs and commands … Continue reading →

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