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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

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...
12 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW Under review

Extend HMC DPM capabilities to also be available in classic (PR\SM) mode

Enhancement Request:The HMC provides extensive information about the CPC environment; however, many core metrics are currently only accessible when the CPC is operating in DPM mode. This limitation restricts users running in PR/SM mode from access...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / DPM 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 ...
10 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW Under review

Externalize integrity check for code application (MCL)

Audit is now requiring that we show any code application has NOT been altered from the source. We are aware that IBM has several internal checks in the firmware for this. We as a client can not show the auditor that the firmware has in-fact perfor...
5 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Under review

Support for retrieving and configuring NTP settings at the HMC WS-API

For compliance, our use of Z systems in the IBM VPC Cloud needed to retrieve the NTP settings from the HMCs and store them for potential future audits. The WS-API of the HMC does not currently support the retrieval of the NTP settings. Therefore, ...
29 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Under review

HMC to support FQDN on HTTPS port 443

We disclose all applications via IBM Security Verify Access (or WebSeal) to end-users using a single port, port 443. This is currently not possible for Z HMC, of all applications. We require a quick HMC redesign to support a single Fully Qualified...
3 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Under review

View Option For "Customise Scheduled Operations" Task

It would be useful to be able to view the "Customise Scheduled Operations" panel to: See when the next scheduled operation is going to run See what scheduled operation(s) are setup What the scheduled operation is setup to do, eg does the backup ju...
4 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Under review

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 ...
7 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Under review

Add SmartNIC/DPU-like hardware for IBM system z (zOS based)

Implement SmartNIC/DPU-like hardware for IBM system z, to offload networking and security functions from zOS servers, enabling hardware-accelerated microsegmentation, firewalling, telemetry, and workload isolation at scale.
3 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking Under review

Trigger Hardware Event in SE when IFCC threshold exceeded

In the current reporting mechanism for IFCC, No Hardware event will be generated in SE/HMC when the IFCC threshold is exceeded. Is it possible to add this in future MCL ? Adding this event logging would significantly improve error tracking for fie...
10 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Under review

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