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z Systems with multiple CPC books/drawers will automatically restart using health other book(s) when shudown by book failure.

New function we require is bellow: zSystems can automatically be restarted when zSystems shutdown caused from its book troubles.When zSystems shutdown caused from book troubles , it is not automatically restarted and cannot run applications.So we ...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 2 Delivered

Provide 'authorisation via LDAP' on HMC

In the current HMC code only authentication can be done using LDAP. Authorisation is managed in HMC code. We would like to have the possibility to add authorisation so that a request to authenticate a user on LDAP also verifies if that user is all...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

Enhance LDAP Support in hmc

We want to be able to manage hmc users in specific groups and not as single users.Clarification based on the fact that:1) Users belonging to a group has the role and auhorization define for this group.2) if for example, user "xxxx" belongs to Grou...
about 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

Batch update for z/osmf rules

Batch view/update facility for z/osmf processing.
about 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Delivered

More than 4 members in SSI cluster

Customer needs possibility to place more than 4 members into an SSI cluster. Customer wants to have more flexibility, therefore the max limit of members should be increased from 4 to at least 8.
about 9 years ago in z/VM 2 Delivered

Provide Job name/ Job number via CSSMTP exit

CSSMTP exit does not provide the JOBNAME and JOB NUMBER for the currently processing JES entry in the ICHRUTKN DSECT as presented to the exit.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

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

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