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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

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Enable the exchange of MDK keys to Visa using TR-31 Key Block Version B, mode of use=N

We are unable to send MDK keys to Visa using TR-31 Key Block Version B as they use Thales payShield HSMs which only support Mode of Use=N whereas IBM only supports Mode of Use=X.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 3 Planned for future release

New verb for time adjustment in crypto card and sync daemon

A new verb for the crypto cards is needed which allows to adjust the internal clock by a max. of 2 seconds per day.This verb needs his own access point.The intention is to keep the internal crypto card clock synchronized with the server time which...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 6 Planned for future release

Need CSFPPKS/CSFPPKV to also support ECC PKCS11 encrypt/decrypt

Currently we make use of CSFPPKS/CSFPPKV to perform PKCS11 encrypt/decrypt with RSA keys. There is a requirement by our clients to also support ECC PKCS11 encrypt/decrypt.
over 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 6 Not under consideration

Sub Group Capping function

Our customer hopes that sub group capping setting can be defined in group capping. When LPARs defined as sub group cap use the limit of sub group cap limit,capping begins and the rest of resource(=Group Cap Limit - Sub Group Cap Limit) is used amo...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 2 Not under consideration

OUTPUT OF H/W SETTING PARAMETERS IN A LIST FORMAT

It's needed the function to output processor's setting parameters(HMC/SE parameters) in a list format.ex. NTP enable/disable
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Not under consideration

zAware support for SYSLOG

We need the ability to have syslog fed to zAware realtime like operlog. zAware cannot be used for non-Operlog systems currently.
about 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 4 Not under consideration

Visa dCVV2 Support

System: Crypto ExpressActor: Issuers and Card vendors participating in the Visa dCVV2 project.The Crypto Express currently supports dynamic CVV processing with the existing card functions. Visa supports dCVV2 which is a time-based Dynamic Card Ver...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 2 Future consideration

Scripting

- Logical Separation- Independence from HW, FW, OS, etc- Ability to combine multiple CCA commands
about 10 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 2 Not under consideration

Create 'Blue' hardware error based on channel error threshold being exceeded

We recently has a 'storm' of IFCC errors on a FICON channel over a number of days that ended up causing an outage on a pair of VM SSI LPARs . After the fact, we saw that we'd received hundreds of "Purge Path Extended Data" errors on the channel, b...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

ICSF support DES transport keys

In attempting to use the HMAC function of ICSF to implement support for some processing one of our Payment Schemes is implementing. We found that ICSF does not allow the IMPORT or EXPORT of HMAC keys under a DES transport. Since DES is heavily use...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 8 Planned for future release