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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

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Adding Compute Express Link CXL3.0 based on PCIe6 and CXL4.0 based on PCIe7 to the IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE

CXL 3.0 is built upon the IBM OpenCAPI, but CXL3 and CXL 4 have more speeds and will achieve the following: 1- Enabling the Interconnection between IBM LinuxONE and Exa scale AI Data Centers based on Nvidia DGX H100 based on Nvidia H100 GPUs and I...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 6 Not under consideration

simplfy system z HW-logging

merge all logs of a system z server to one, to make it easier to identify issues
over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

The Symmetric Algorithm Decipher callable service does not provide support to handle JWE Compact Serialization and none of the other callable services have support for this functionality.

The Symmetric Algorithm Decipher callable service does not provide support to handle JWE Compact Serialization and none of the other callable services have support for this functionality.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 2 Future consideration

HMC add support for Client authentication

Please have a look at IBM SR TS011062840 we need Client Authentication support in our Manage Syslog server Option of IBM Z14 ZR1 HMC @ R51 microcode level.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Is a defect

PLAC0911-1434 Avoid the necessity of having to use a zOS image to load master keys

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Carles.ArisSubmitters Company: la Caixa PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PLAC0911-1434 Avoid the necessity of having to use a zOS image to load master keysHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core Technology...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / TKE Workstation 6 Future consideration

Encryption of Data In Flight (EDiF) on z/HyperLink

From: https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/JP-ENUSJG19-0039-CA/name/ENUSJG19-0039.PDF Fibre Channel Endpoint Security: In the future IBM intends to provide FibreChannel Endpoint Security to extend pervasive encryption on IBM Z, providingadditional da...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 3 Future consideration

Improve CPE option to support GDPS planned events

JPMC has invested heavily into the GDPS product and utilize the site switch capabilities to adhere to FED and Audit regulations. Today we generate $0 MES orders to support the capacity requirements.
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 1 Future consideration

HMC/SE indicator for FC0104 (Container Hosting Foundation) on z15 T02

There currently exists no easy way of displaying whether FC0104 (Container Hosting Foundation) is installed or not. With the z15 T02, the Image Details tab on the HMC currently displays whether System Recover Boost (SRB) is active or not. This wou...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

Add support to IBM Z and LinuxONE HMCs for installations via https

Today the "Load from Removable Media, or Server" task of an IBM Z or LinuxONE HMC supports installations via:- CD / DVD-ROM - USB flash memory drive and- FTP Source (I think USB installations got recently dropped, due to security concerns.) Today ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 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 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 5 Future consideration

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