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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 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 3 Future 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 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 1 Future 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 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 2 Not under 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 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 1 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 9 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 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 4 Not under consideration

KVM for IBM z Systems - RFE Test

Only a test to validate process
over 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 3 Not under consideration

M/T 2964 (z13) WCU Pump Switch

This is a customer request (Walmart) to be able to manually switch the WCU pumps. Currently the WCU pumps switch ever 47 days. Customer had a couple of situations where the customer supply loop valves were not open on the redundant supply loop and...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 3 Not under consideration

zAware Feature to Wildcard Messages

The ability to ignore zAware messages with a wildcard and applying changes to all monitored LPARs with one submission.
about 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 3 Not under 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 1 Not under consideration

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