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Greater than 256 LCUs per channel

We are currently using exactly 256 LCUs on some of our channels, which is the limit according to HCD when building IODFs and also according to those at IBM we've spoken to on the subject. Our ongoing adoption of MzGMM with a Flashcopy has added mo...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 7 Not under consideration

EAP-TLS for TKE (HMC)

At Volkswagen a Network Access Control is used to prevent access of unknown devices to the Volkswagen LAN (Local Area Network).This has nothing to do with the function of the TKE (filling the crypto adapters with the masterkeys,…)But the TKE needs...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Not under consideration

RSF with a private line or IP-VPN

Current RSF requires connection to the open Internet.However, not a few zSystems customers refuse to accept internet connection. One of the typical reasons of refusal is because they think open internet connection causes risk of exposing internal ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Not under consideration

systems

The idea of the system and the successful partner of the system is Google Drive system targeting and ensuring nearly one million users in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates targeted and guaranteed about one million and eight hundred users, ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 1 Not under consideration

Support for Diffie-Hellman in the crypto coprocessor cards (CEXnC)

We call in our CICS applications external webservices and external http requests, which are hosted at external Partners, means there is a http conversation between CICS and an external Partner, in which CICS has the role Client. For security reaso...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 2 Future consideration

Calculation of ECC public key from private key

An ECC private key in the clear is derived by some function and will be used later for signatures. The corresponding ECC public key can be calculated from the private key.This function is probably available in the Crypto Express 5 cards of IBM, bu...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 8 Not under consideration

STP ETS scheduled syncronization feature request

To keep multiple STP networks (at different geographical locations) synchronized in parallel to any adjustments in time from the ETS (External Time Server) we need to be able to specify the occurrences that the PTS quarries the ETS. o This can eit...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Not under consideration

zHMC Multi-Factor Authentication - Radius

JPMC would like AAA Support (Authentication, Authorization, and accounting) - HMC to support Radius authentication in place of current LDAP authentication.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Not under consideration

FTP IPL support in snipl

Customer is currently in the design phase of Linux deployment on IBM z Systems.,.To manage direct-to-LPAR deployments, we will need a mechanism to remotely boot and launch an operating system (kernel + initrd) on an LPAR.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Not under consideration

PFTB0510-1342 99999 - Provide Multiple IFL shared pools to reduce Oracle licence costs

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Jim.FyffeSubmitters Company: Fifth Third Bank PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PFTB0510-1342 99999 - Provide Multiple IFL shared pools to reduce Oracle licence costsHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 5 Not under consideration

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