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Encryption Facility

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Unable to use GDGs as output datstest for Encryption Facility for z/OS. For further details please refer to 13643,047,649

Unable to use GDGs as output dataset for Encryption Facility for z/OS. For further details please refer to 13643,047,649
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 1 Not under consideration

encryption Facility for z/OS

When we use ASCII Transcodage table with Encryption Facility for OpenPGP on MVS LPAR ( option -t ISO-8859-1 ), we've got a strange result in the following case. When Encryption Facility transcode Hex Characters suite x'OD25' before Encryption, dec...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 0 Not under consideration

EF-OpenPGP enhanchement for z/OS <=> LUW

ENCRYPT and DECRYPT of files and CodePage/encoding and zip/unzip use too much CPU and MEMORY for small and medium size files. The JCL need many steps to handle the data. Usually ASCII data is shipped as encrypted to z/OS, and must then be transfor...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 1 Not under consideration

TKDS Support with Encryption Facility

Encryption Facility (EF) currently supports the ICSF CKDS and PKDS. The TKDS was implemented in ICSF after the initial EF support. Would be great to add that final KDS to the list of supported key stores.
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 1 Not under consideration

EF option to specify Preferred Symmetric Algorithms when generating a certificate

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0903096618User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR0903096618Title: EF option to specify Preferred Symmetric Algorithms when generating a certificateSubmitted By: Noriah Ahmad/Malaysia/IBMOriginators Area: z/OS sup...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 2 Not under consideration

Utility to export public key from OpenPGP certificate into RACF.

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0930082224User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR0930082224Title: Utility to export public key from OpenPGP certificate into RACF.Submitted By: Stanley Jon/Markham/IBMOriginators Area: z/OS Q&AFPOC: John Petr...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 2 Not under consideration

Add support to EF to enable it to use CPACF without having crypto coprocessors

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR051208658User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR051208658Title: Add support to EF to enable it to use CPACF without having crypto coprocessorsSubmitted By: Cheri Prendergast/Poughkeepsie/IBMOriginators Area: Encr...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 2 Not under consideration

Encryption Facility should use JZOS API WTOMESSAGE

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0208136026User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR0208136026Title: Encryption Facility should use JZOS API WTOMESSAGESubmitted By: Ghislaine Dietlin/France/IBMOriginators Area: ITS supportFPOC: John Petreshock/Pou...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 2 Not under consideration

EF OpenPGP for z/OS does not support Private/Experimental algorithms

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0629125019User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR0629125019Title: EF OpenPGP for z/OS does not support Private/Experimental algorithmsSubmitted By: David Hilliard/Poughkeepsie/IBMOriginators Area: IBM Systems Lab...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 2 Not under consideration

Issue warning message when -homedir points to an invalid directory or file.

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0318146227User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR0318146227Title: Issue warning message when -homedir points to an invalid directory or file.Submitted By: David Hilliard/Poughkeepsie/IBMOriginators Area: Encrypti...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 2 Not under consideration