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    End user must be able to handle custom secureboot keys on s390x

    On all securebootable platforms end user can- wipe secureboot keys- provision own secureboot keys- reset to stock secureboot keys And boot bootloader / kernel is only signed by keys that end user controls. This has many properties of securing syst...
    about 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 2 Future consideration

    Suggest BCI instruction, I4 field to branch forward up to 32 bytes without clearing cache.

    A variation of the BCR instruction. Instead or the R destination field, the I4 Immediate 4 bit field would be 0 skip 0 or 2 bytes after instruction, 2 skip 2 or 4 bytes after instruction, ..., 15 skip 30 or 32 bytes after instruction. The miniscul...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 2 Functionality already exists

    Adding Virtual Appliances for the Compute Express Link ( CXL Virtual Switch Appliance) to the IBM LinuxONE

    Achieving Advanced Virtual AI Data Center based on Compute Express Link Attached Devices. Please, refer to the other complementary idea "Adding Compute Express Link CXL3.0 based on PCIe6 and CXL4.0 based on PCIe7 to the IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE [ZL1...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 6 Not under consideration

    Improvements in zAWARE

    It is important for us, zAware being able to read from syslog, because our installation is based on SYSLOG. Also we are interesting in synergies between IMS, DB2 and MQ, and zAware. And it is really important the coexistence between zAware and GDP...
    over 10 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 5 Not under consideration

    Improve CPE option to support GDPS planned events

    JPMC has invested heavily into the GDPS product and utilize the site switch capabilities to adhere to FED and Audit regulations. Today we generate $0 MES orders to support the capacity requirements.
    over 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 1 Future consideration

    Encryption of Data In Flight (EDiF) on z/HyperLink

    From: https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/JP-ENUSJG19-0039-CA/name/ENUSJG19-0039.PDF Fibre Channel Endpoint Security: In the future IBM intends to provide FibreChannel Endpoint Security to extend pervasive encryption on IBM Z, providingadditional da...
    about 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 3 Future consideration

    z15 may I/O drawer requirement

    Description:The Next Generation System will be released as a next banking system.Currently, we have two identical system environments, one of which is used and switched, so we operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.These two environments exist in...
    about 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 1 Not under consideration

    Build a 3U blade server with z14+ processor

    Suggest to build a 3U+ blade server with z14+ processor. Would have a connector in the middle, with a mother board Front and Rear, with one z14+ processor and Core memory slots. 2 board bays on each side for 3+ FCP/FICON, OSA, other boards over mo...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 2 Not under consideration

    Sub Group Capping function

    Our customer hopes that sub group capping setting can be defined in group capping. When LPARs defined as sub group cap use the limit of sub group cap limit,capping begins and the rest of resource(=Group Cap Limit - Sub Group Cap Limit) is used amo...
    almost 10 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 2 Not under consideration

    zAware support for SYSLOG

    We need the ability to have syslog fed to zAware realtime like operlog. zAware cannot be used for non-Operlog systems currently.
    about 10 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 4 Not under consideration

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