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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

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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 ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 3 Under review

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...
4 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 0 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 acces...
6 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / DPM 3 Under review

API messages for Capacity on Demand start

My customer would like to be able to better automate making sure that they don't exceed their CoD contract. Right now the check is based on when the model number of the CoD'd system changes but it would be useful if an API message/webhook could be...

Would like to see that messages in the console events log state why a mirror of the SE was done. Example mirror completed due to scheduled event, or mirror completed due to configuration change.

Customer would get a better idea on why this was completed. With our case TS020780719 we had a number of mirroring events happening and it wasn't stating what was causing the event. We actually had a this happening in this case. A lot of time hard...