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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

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Allow all vHMA IP addresses to be in the same network

Prior to the creation of VLANs, having multiple IP addresses in different networks was preferred for redundancy. With the advent of VLANs and the ability to have the same network segment presented in multiple physical network switches, there is no...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

eIDAS for ICSF and MCL for CEX*S

Remote Signatures according eIDAS (eIDAS is an EU regulation on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market. It is a set of standards for electronic identification and trust services for electron...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 6 Not under consideration

HMC userid with access to all Web Services API logs

As a development shop we have a number of users testing Web Services APIs on the HMC. Some of these APIs are known to cause lockouts of the SE (such as those in Perform Model Conversion) - both changes and queries. We need a central place to audit...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Not under consideration

Formatting Method PKOAEP2 in callable service CSNDPKE

Implement the PKOAEP2 formatting method (RSA DSI PKCS #1 v2.1 RSAES-OAEP) in the callable service CSNDPKE (PKA Encrypt). Currently PKOAEP2 is available in the callable services CSNDSYX and CSNDSYI2.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 2 Planned for future release

System z does not respond due to internal reservations

After a microcode update on System z, the system did not respond due to internal reservations without any trace who occupied the system's resources. Tasks were canceled without any hint was happend. We need some kind of mechanism that tasks execut...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

Copy the contents of a crypto card to a new crypto card after a defective card has been replaced

After a replacement of single cryptocard, in case of a broken card, it should be possible to copy the complete config from another active card in the CEC.
over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 2 Not under consideration

simplify repair actions of broken crypto cards

If a crypto card has broken in zHW, it is very complex to bring a replaced card in production again. Two or more people has to be at TKE to do that. Usually, this people are not at standby, so it could last a couple of days to be fully redundant a...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 2 Not under consideration

Audit outgoing and incoming data

Our auditors always wants to know what data is coming in or is leaving our datacenter. In the logs of system z hardware I can see that data was received or transmitted, but I didn't know what was in the data. The only thing I know is “Transmit ser...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

SE-logs should become more transparent

We are using personaliazed user-ids for our HMC-Users. The default user-ids are all disabled. But when we are logged in single object mode to an SE-element, we don't see the personal users logged in but we only see users like SooSysprog,… for exam...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

Specify of the slot location for the CryptoExpress

Allow customer specification of the slot location for the Crypto card.Customer requested to specify of the slot location of the CryptoExpress with new AP number. It is also effective for ensuring redundancy.
over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 2 Not under consideration

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