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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

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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

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

OUTPUT OF H/W SETTING PARAMETERS IN A LIST FORMAT

It's needed the function to output processor's setting parameters(HMC/SE parameters) in a list format.ex. NTP enable/disable
almost 10 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 2 Not under consideration

IBM z SDN and SD-WAN with 5G Networking and Slicing traffic

1- Adding SD-WAN to IBM Z Networking 2- Adding 5G Networking with Slicing Traffic 3- Adding NVMe over TCP/IP connectivity 4- Adding AI in Edge Computing based on Intel IPU (Infrastructure Processing Unit) and Nvidia DPU (Data Processing Unit) 5- U...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 5 Future 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

Allow all vHMA IP addresses to be in the same network

Prior to the creation of VLANs, having multiple IP addresses in different networks was preferred for redundancy. With the advent of VLANs and the ability to have the same network segment presented in multiple physical network switches, there is no...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 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