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New verb for time adjustment in crypto card and sync daemon

A new verb for the crypto cards is needed which allows to adjust the internal clock by a max. of 2 seconds per day.This verb needs his own access point.The intention is to keep the internal crypto card clock synchronized with the server time which...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 6 Planned for future release

Copy the contents of a crypto card to a new crypto card after a defective card has been replaced

After a replacement of single cryptocard, in case of a broken card, it should be possible to copy the complete config from another active card in the CEC.
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 2 Not under consideration

Specify of the slot location for the CryptoExpress

Allow customer specification of the slot location for the Crypto card.Customer requested to specify of the slot location of the CryptoExpress with new AP number. It is also effective for ensuring redundancy.
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 2 Not under consideration

Need CSFPPKS/CSFPPKV to also support ECC PKCS11 encrypt/decrypt

Currently we make use of CSFPPKS/CSFPPKV to perform PKCS11 encrypt/decrypt with RSA keys. There is a requirement by our clients to also support ECC PKCS11 encrypt/decrypt.
almost 10 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 6 Not under consideration

Provide a user authorization and permissions agent compatible with Red Hat FreeIPA

Red Hat is investing in creating a user and security based tool for identity management and open sourcing the result as FreeIPA (www.freeipa.org). I would like to suggest making a CMS client for FreeIPA to allow VM user management with FreeIPA. I ...
over 3 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Enhance CMS abend handlers with 64 bit support

Now zCMS is becoming the default CMS, applications wanting to utilize 64 bits mode, can switch to AMODE 31 before calling a CMS API, but that is not true for abend handlers.Abend handlers are called with the same AMODE as they were initialzed, but...
over 3 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Add standard add/update/delete entry capability to REXX and Pipes.

Currently, all applications that need to use NAMES-format file support have to create their own add/delete entry functions using XEDIT macros (NAMEFIND handles lookup adequately). Having a single standard command/API routine to manipulate entries ...
over 3 years ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

Visa dCVV2 Support

System: Crypto ExpressActor: Issuers and Card vendors participating in the Visa dCVV2 project.The Crypto Express currently supports dynamic CVV processing with the existing card functions. Visa supports dCVV2 which is a time-based Dynamic Card Ver...
about 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 2 Future consideration

Scripting

- Logical Separation- Independence from HW, FW, OS, etc- Ability to combine multiple CCA commands
about 11 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 2 Not under consideration

Formatting Method PKOAEP2 in callable service CSNDPKE

Implement the PKOAEP2 formatting method (RSA DSI PKCS #1 v2.1 RSAES-OAEP) in the callable service CSNDPKE (PKA Encrypt). Currently PKOAEP2 is available in the callable services CSNDSYX and CSNDSYI2.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 2 Planned for future release