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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

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Passphrase support for master console logins

Using MFA on z/OS, and need passphrase support for logging on to the master console. Most other login entry points are passphrase enabled
about 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 4 Delivered

Provide "Scheduled Operations" support in the HMC for updates to the Defined Group Capacity Settings for z13 machines.

Add the capability for a z13 HMC to modify the Defined Group Capacity Settings using the "Scheduled Operations" capability of the HMC.
about 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Delivered

The Change Mirror Time on the SE does not show what it is currently set to

The Change Mirror Time option on the SE for a z15 and z16 does not show the current time the daily mirror is already set for. It only shows the current time in the window. It would be useful to know what it is set to currently so it can be checked...

ICSF TR-34 support

In order to comply with PCI 3 (Payment Cards Industry) requirements for elimination of the usage of SHA-1 in RSA cryptography, as well as the requirement for "key bundling", NCR has elected to implement support the following "technical recommendat...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 8 Delivered

Unix Syslogd Support as additional transport mechanism for messages on HMC and SE to remote syslogd gatherer

To comply with PCI DSS requirements a central syslog gathering server is installed in our infrastructure and especially the distributed systems send all their relevant messages to this instance using the syslogd function. To integrate the HMC and ...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

Diffie-Hellman (DH/DHE) Hardware Support in Crypto Express/ICSF

Add support in hardware (CPACF or more likely, Crypto Express 6S/7S) for Diffie Hellman operations performed as part of DH/DHE/ECDH/ECDHE key exchanges and make the necessary coordinating changes in ICSF to expose this support to the software stac...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 4 Delivered

Need a "select all data types" option when doing HMC backups

System: z Series HMC - Drivers 36, 41 and future.Actor: User needing new feature Description: "Save/Restore Customizable Console Data" is used to back up all customizable data types on each of our HMCs. We backup all data types and a manual select...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Delivered

HMC <-> Support Element Communication must comply with PCI DSS / security requirements

To be compliant with the current PCI DSS requirements, certain cipher suites and signature algorithm must be used for the encrypted communication between HMC and Support Element. In contrast to the Web Frontend communication it is not possible to ...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

Creating and Deleting Profiles on HMC/SE via BCPII

We have been using BCPII for quite a while to automate the control of the "defined capacity" in our z/OS Images. This was an important milestone for us because the defined capacity values can change very frequently based upon our clients requests....
almost 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 5 Delivered

LDAP Group Support for System z HMC

The System z HMC currently does not support LDAP Groups. We are unable to utilize the alternate method using templates as we are unable to update the LDAP schema for our users. We are requesting the capability for defining LDAP Groups on the Syste...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Delivered