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User defined exponent in RSA key generation EKMF / CCA

The exponent for RSA key pair generation should be user selectable / definable in EKMF.Currently common values are 3 and 65537 as well as random.For specific use cases we will need 17 as an option.A more general approach would be a user definable ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 3 Delivered

Support of ECC curve 25519

The ECC curve 25519 will be needed for future projects to sign data structures.Furthermore it was selected as a future option for TLS and therefore might become in widespread use for ECDHE usages.The crypto card and all software stacks like ICSF C...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 4 Delivered

Need Certificate information added to IPSEC -k display

with IKED their is no way to check when you restart a phase 1 negotiation what Certificate you are using except for the DN information. This is problematic when we do certificate updates since we do not change that information when updating the ce...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

RMM should support adding scratch tapes without a physical VTS connection

When we test our disaster recovery process we need to quickly add scratch volumes to a large number of RMM plexes (around 40) prior to bringing tape processing online in those test LPAR's. This is due to the fact that IBM's TS7700 flash copy proce...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Delivered

TKE allow customizable initial banner

We have an audit requirement that every component that allows any type of login, must display a customized warning banner to alert the user of legal information. The HMCs have a banner that can be customized but the TKEs do not. The audit finding ...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / TKE Workstation 5 Delivered

Add Byte Counts to Port Statistic SMF records 119 sub 7

There currently is no way to see if there was a spike in traffic coming to a particular port during a time period for TCP traffic. This is something we really need for TCP applications to detect triggering events with our applications. The port st...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

PPSG0113-1572 More Granularity on the CP processor assignment in a CEC

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: guceda@produban.comSubmitters Company: Produban-Santander Group PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PPSG0113-1572 More Granularity on the CP processor asignment in a CECHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 7 Delivered

PFA to monitor for above the bar storage

In late March, we experienced an MQ outage on our main production system. Analysis by IBM concluded that the cause was a leak in 64bit storage.Currently, PFA has a check for private storage below and above the line. It would be beneficial to us, a...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Predictive Failure Analysis 1 Delivered

Requesting $ZAPSOOL command similar to $ZAPJOB to remove complete volume

Accidentally dataset names of spool volumes have been deleted. At next warm start JES2 didn't recognize spool volumes anymore because dataset names were missing. Reply at warm start was replied with GO, because no data was modified on volumes.Now ...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Delivered

Need to know what are the snmp TRAPS that zSeries will send from HCM

In order to monitor the zSeries machines my customer would like to receive the SNMP TRAP events send by the HMC in their monitoring tool and define an action for each one of them. We have not been able to locate the list of TRAP IDs and their mean...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Delivered

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