April 2024
Version R01M10
April 4, 2024
Enhancements
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The Multi-Factor Authentication menu now includes an option to specify which IBM i user profiles are used as the Insite configuration profiles. These include a "Connection" and "One-time Use" user profile.
December 2023
Version R01M09
December 13, 2023
Fixes
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A fix has been implemented to prevent message MCH1210 "Receiver value too small to hold result" being received when using PTMALIB/WRKPTMA Option 5.
June 2023
Version R01M09
June 8, 2023
Enhancements
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The product's Help Text and Manual have been updated to reflect the new Fortra branding.
Fixes
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Updated the IBM i Agent for compatibility with Powertech MFA 1.5.2
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Processing has been corrected for any user-owned exit program, registered in the product against the Database Server (QIBM_QZDA_INIT) exit point. Such a program is now only run following successful authentication, or if the authentication request was made within an authentication suppression window.
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Activation and de-activation of authentication against a specific IBM i User Profile no longer requires the issuing profile to have *JOBCTL Special Authority.
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For a first-time installation, the timeout value for the communications is set to a value of 2 minutes.
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Additional program objects have been added to the PMAADMIN Authorization List.
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Ownership of the Command Processing Program for the PMASTRMON and PMAENDMON commands has been changed to a profile with *JOBCTL Special Authority.
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If a user is not defined as a Multi-Factor Authentication administrator, the resulting message when attempting to run PTMALIB/WRKPTMA, now contains the current user name.
Version R01M09
June 8, 2023
Fixes
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Updated the IBM i Agent for compatibility with Powertech MFA 1.5.2
August 2022
Version R01M08
August 16, 2022
Fixes
- Updated the IBM i Agent for compatibility with Powertech MFA 1.5.1.
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Changed the API to provide the authentication result as an output parameter, which can be used by the calling program. If the fourth parameter contains the value 1, the authentication was successful; any other integer value means the authentication failed.
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Multiple Exit Point programs are now shipped with the correct *PUBLIC *USE authority.
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The return code is now reset within the authentication API at the start of each use.
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Fixed the use of emergency override within the authentication API.
November 2020
Version R01M07
November 16, 2020
- The IBM i Agent has been updated for compatibility with Powertech MFA 1.5.
July 2019
Version R01M06
- Powertech MFA's IBM i agent can now accommodate authentication calls to a RADIUS server to authenticate users.
April 2019
Version R01M05
Enhancements
- Powertech Multi-Factor Authentication now supports TLS (Transport Layer Security) protection for communications to and from the Authentication Manager, and is now registered as a Client Application within the IBM Digital Certificate Manager (DCM).
- Exit programs that were registered against exit points before Powertech Multi-Factor Authentication control for those exit points was activated can now be changed.
- The product has been renamed Powertech Multi-Factor Authentication. The new name is now used in the IBM i Agent module and accompanying documentation. (Previously the product was called "Access Authenticator.")
Fixes
- When configured, requests from the IBM i agent to the Authentication Manager are now sent over HTTPS.
- Authentication request with parameters set to null is no longer sent when CCSID=65535.
October 2018
Version R01M04
- A new error handling and messaging mechanism has been added to the Desktop Agent that enables important messages about upgrades to be displayed.
- You are now logged out of the Desktop Agent after changing HelpSystems Insite addresses.
- The Insite server address on the Access Authenticator IBM i agent is now updated with each Activation from HelpSystems Insite.