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TLS Version selection in OSA ICC configuration

OSA EXPRESS5/6S with z13GA2 resp. z14 does support TLS V.1.x for ICC communication.Required is an optional choice of supported CipherSpecs on the OSA EXPRESS Firmware level.
over 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 7 Delivered

Support for GA2 to GA1 driver downgrade option

While planing to upgrade z14 GA1 to GA2 driver, the customer asks IBM to prepare guaranteed contingency revert plan in the case of GA2 driver causes the customer's production system failure. Unlike MCL apply, GA2 driver upgrade includs lots of new...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 1 Delivered

Clarify and Enhance zIIP Boost Behavior Under System Recovery Boost

The System Recovery Boost (SRB) feature, introduced with IBM z15, is designed to provide additional CPU capacity during recovery operations, such as IPLs or middleware restarts. One of the core capabilities of SRB is the zIIP Boost, which is descr...

Certificate Management enhancement - Key Size and allow P12 Repository import

This relates to the Certificate Management Task (z15 and DS8K) and also to the TLS configuration in the Card Specific Advianced Funtions on the OSA ICC configuration. It should be possible to specify the length of the private key used in the certi...

Passphrase support for master console logins

Using MFA on z/OS, and need passphrase support for logging on to the master console. Most other login entry points are passphrase enabled

Provide "Scheduled Operations" support in the HMC for updates to the Defined Group Capacity Settings for z13 machines.

Add the capability for a z13 HMC to modify the Defined Group Capacity Settings using the "Scheduled Operations" capability of the HMC.

Simplify Crypto Cipher Management in HMC

Currently HMC just offers a list (in a not auto scaling window) of available ciphers without any further details to which TLS version they might belong. It would be a great simplification if I can just select that I want to use TLS1.3 and TLS1.2 a...

HMC Data Replication and IDAA Call-Home

By design 'HMC Data Replication' does not synchronize definitions for IDAA Call-Home to other HMC's.

ICSF TR-34 support

In order to comply with PCI 3 (Payment Cards Industry) requirements for elimination of the usage of SHA-1 in RSA cryptography, as well as the requirement for "key bundling", NCR has elected to implement support the following "technical recommendat...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 8 Delivered

HMC with autoscaling windows in all 'screens'

Currently there is no HMC/SE internal alignment that windows do auto scale. As nowadays when working with large screens but the HMC window does not auto scale and works with fixed height of 30 lines, that's not very user-friendly. Hence all window...