Tivoli Federated Identity Manager for zOS

Overview

Employ user-centric federated access management to enable secure online business collaboration

In addition to using IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager on distributed systems, you can use IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager for z/OS for a high-availability identity management solution that also supports single sign-on and identity service natively on the IBM System z mainframe environment

• Leverage the availability, scale, and performance of the IBM System z mainframe to provide a centralized hub for access management on z/OS
• Simplify application integration using many forms of user credentials; help reduce administrative costs and facilitates compliance
• Simplify application integration using many forms of user credentials and facilitate secure information sharing between trusted business partners and divisions within an organization
• Improve the end-user experience by moving to user-centric, federated SSO identity management that puts customers, partners and suppliers in control of asserting trust, determining where sign-on is occurring and which user attributes to share
• Implement a powerful, stand-alone identity service tool for establishing identity awareness in SOA and Web services environments to reduce administrative costs, establish trust and facilitate compliance by managing, mapping and propagating user identities
• Use open standards and specifications, such as OpenID and Information Card Profile, and identity selectors from Microsoft Windows CardSpace and the Higgins Trust Framework to enable greater collaboration across the business ecosystem
• Use advanced operational features to ease identity management, including support for multiple types of point-of-contact servers, a command line infrastructure and trust chain editor, for quick identity service deployments in SOA and Web services environments
• Improve visibility into who is connecting to services and mainframe applications and help meet compliance requirements with a stand-alone identity service
• Employ a comprehensive identity management solution with modular entry-level software that enables collaboration with small-to-midsize business partners

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