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Support of RSASSA-PSS signature paddings in CCA

The padding schemes for signatures called RSASSA-PSS from PKCS#1 v2.2 are not so easy to implement and should therefore be implemented as an option to the CCA signature/verify verbs similar to the PKCS 1.5 options.The padding might be used togethe...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 3 Delivered

Allow Web Services to Change Properties of Objects Under Custom Groups

Per HMC/SE DE, Web Services does not have the granularity to be able to change the properties of objects that are under custom groups on the HMC. Regardless of where objects appear under custom groups when the members of the groups are listed unde...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Delivered

DFSORT Edit Masks create inacurate information

Current DFSORT Edit Masks do not allow the ability to show a decimal value without a leading zero before the decimal point. With a specification of: M-AE-AMOUNT,EDIT=(SIIIIIIIII.TT),SIGNS=(+,-),C'~',The value returned for 0.34 is just "34" - WITH ...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 2 Delivered

Implement Policy Agent PBR support for IPv6

Add Policy Agent Policy Based Routing (PBR) support for IPv6 with the same functions that it has for IPv4. The PBR functionality that currently exists for IPv4 should be carried forward to IPv6. Also update Policy Agent Configuration Assistant to ...
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

dynamic changes for HW Crypto definitions in z/VM w/o IPL of z/VM

Allow dynamic changes of HW crypto support definitions in z/VM without the need of performing an IPL of z/VMIn an existing z/VM environment we had assigned a HW-Crypto queue to a z/VM LPAR (processor 1 Domain 4). When adding a CRYPTO statement to ...
almost 10 years ago in z/VM 2 Delivered

Control GDG index limits

would like to be able to control gdg index limits, like the enchancement for 'noscratch' & 'scratch' attributes coming out in zos 2.2 parmlib
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 6 Delivered

Filtering SDSF messages wrt to a task

I would like to a command that would help to filter any messages that are written by a task. Instead doing an FIND command that would look for the string .. I'm looking for a filter command that would pull all the lines wrt to a task.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 2 Delivered

z/OS 2.4 OpenSSH HOS2240 consider changing to debug or info > error: FOTS3002 zsshIcsfMacClear (938): CSFPTRD failed: return code = 8, reason code = 3027

When SSH clients connect to z/OS 2.4 OpenSSH HOS2240 SSHD server, the following error message is seen in /var/syslog/: error: FOTS3002 zsshIcsfMacClear (938): CSFPTRD failed: return code = 8, reason code = 3027 The clients connect successfully wit...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 2 Delivered

SSL connections

HI z/OS TCP/IP to cut an SMF record that indicates if connection is SSL enabled or not. SMF119 needs Policy Agent to be used for SSL. How to identify what connections are using SSL, from within an application, e.g. Cics Transaction Gateway.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Delivered

z/OSMF zERT-Plugin Allow Configurable Temp.Database

The zERT-Plugin in z/OSMF allows to import SMF Data Type 119 Subtype 12.Reports can be used to get an overview to non-secured ports and to be able to plan activity to close / reconfigure such critical connections.Each Report uses multible Tables i...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Delivered