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Support for querying PTF/APAR/SYSMOD/USERMOD status from REST API

Hi, I work for the GTS Global Service Engeneering team and we are developing some automation solutions around SMPE and we need a function to query for status of a certain PTF via REST API. This is very critical for IBM GTS in order to automate wor...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Delivered

Diffie-Hellman (DH/DHE) Hardware Support in Crypto Express/ICSF

Add support in hardware (CPACF or more likely, Crypto Express 6S/7S) for Diffie Hellman operations performed as part of DH/DHE/ECDH/ECDHE key exchanges and make the necessary coordinating changes in ICSF to expose this support to the software stac...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 4 Delivered

ICSF TR-34 support

In order to comply with PCI 3 (Payment Cards Industry) requirements for elimination of the usage of SHA-1 in RSA cryptography, as well as the requirement for "key bundling", NCR has elected to implement support the following "technical recommendat...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 8 Delivered

Unix Syslogd Support as additional transport mechanism for messages on HMC and SE to remote syslogd gatherer

To comply with PCI DSS requirements a central syslog gathering server is installed in our infrastructure and especially the distributed systems send all their relevant messages to this instance using the syslogd function. To integrate the HMC and ...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

Add support for sending multi-part objects to S3 when using the streaming send/receive exits.

The documented method for sending large objects to the cloud is to use the streaming send and receive Web-Enablement Toolkit exits. However, it is not possible to send multi-part objects using this method. There is no way to overcome the 5GB limit...
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 2 Delivered

Add FEAT command to FTP server

Add support for FEAT command to FTP server on z/VM
about 6 years ago in z/VM 3 Delivered

NCA: Tailored include/obeyfile should not be limited to LRECL during provisioning

In the z/OSMF Network Configuration Assistance for Cloud configuration; you specify an include and obeyfile for every z/OS image. The 'general' default is a PDSE with FB LRECL 80. The same applied to the 'ezb_cloud_allocate_stack_pdse' workflow as...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

Allow DIRMAINT to sense actual physical volume sizes when volumes are added to available disk pools

Any DIRMAINT user
almost 2 years ago in z/VM 6 Delivered

Add CAC Support to SSL Server

We rely on a CMS based application web server to handle HTTPS connections. The web server is assembler based, and uses the IUCV socket APIs to communicate with z/VM TCP/IP. The web server currently supports SSL natively with client certificate aut...
about 6 years ago in z/VM 1 Delivered

Enhance HSM ARCCMDxx to use system symbols or permit a concatenation of ARCCMDxx members

This would allow for a customized startup of HSM based on system symbols. Production vs DR Test for example.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Delivered