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Crypto Express: Should show "Standby" status after setting OFFLINE within an LPAR to safely toggle crypto card

After MCL Update on a IBM Z CEC you may have to toggle the Crypto Express Cards to activate the new firmware code on these cards (Pendig conditions). A good description can be found in doc: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/best-practices-toggling...

Add capability for additional users to be able to delete a request for HMA z17 Dual Control

During evaluation of the IBM HMA z17 Dual Control code we noticed that only the original requester is allowed to delete a request. It would be beneficial to allow additional users to be able to able to accomplish this process This will be helpful ...

Update for allowing duplicate named request for Dual Control HMA z17 code

While doing some evaluations of IBM HMA dual control z17 features we ran across a situation where we could not use the same name for a request if that name was currently in progress, or completed. We realize we could once it was deleted but we are...

Set https certificate for SSC lpar in HMC

At the moment when you start a SSC lpar in installer mode, the lpar starts with a self signed certificate and https isn't secure. Since connecting to the lpar via this connection is an admin connection, a direct connection between 'server' and 'us...

OSC Support for optical fiber 10G/25G

The only available speed for OSC on optical fiber is 1G, this is available on z17 with the OSA Express7S 1.2 GbE card. 1G optical fiber is not part of modern network infrastructure, therefore an option to run OSC on modern infrastructure with at l...
4 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 1 Planned for future release

Support crypto accelerators in go/crypto / HashiCorp Vault (Enterprise)

Currently HashiCorp Vault is compiled using a statically linked go/crypto library which doesn't use openssl or openCryptoki. This results in no support for libica on IBM Z / LinuxOne machines and thus lower performance than expected. It would be n...
5 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 0 Under review

Add Support to CSNDSYX, for stronger Hashing Methods like SHA-512 for CKM-RAKW to get RFC5649 output.

Add Support to CSNDSYX, for stronger Hashing Methods like SHA-512 for CKM-RAKW to get RFC5649 output. CKM_RSA_AES_KEY_WRAP is a two step process; AES Ephemeral Key gets wrapped with Public key (RSA-OAEP+SHA512) AES Ephemeral Key wraps the AES ...
3 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 3 Under review

Avoid Remote VL CP Penalties By Utilizing Local Resources When Drawer Fit Fails

On IBM z16 servers, we have observed a significant increase in the cost of accessing data/memory located in a remote drawer. In certain scenarios, this can result in a notable increase in CPI, leading to an LPAR’s CPU utilization doubling -or even...
9 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 1 Future consideration

Optimize DMR to Minimize Performance Impact During Drawer Swaps

On IBM z16 servers, we have observed a significant increase in the cost of accessing data/memory located in a remote drawer. In certain scenarios, this can result in a notable increase in CPI, leading to an LPAR’s CPU utilization doubling -or even...
9 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 1 Not under consideration

Enable System Recovery Boost for DMR Events Triggered By Drawer Swaps

On IBM z16 servers, we have observed a significant increase in the cost of accessing data/memory located in a remote drawer. In certain scenarios, this can result in a notable increase in CPI, leading to an LPAR’s CPU utilization doubling -or even...
9 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 1 Future consideration