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Include Resource Group Number In Update Confirmation Message

We recently had to update the PCI System Services Resource Groups as a result of a recent MCL update. The confirmation message that is issued after selecting update in the Manage PCI System Services HMC panel doesnt have the Resource Group include...
8 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

Add filtering for the HMC/HMA hardware messages to drop the red-herrings

Right now, on a busy IPL night, we can miss legitimate error messages on the HMC because of the flurry of "logical partition mode events" and "disabled wait...0a2" messages. If we could filter out which messages hit the HMC hardware messages state...
9 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

"Manage PCI System Services" Panel - View Access

We are currently installing the MCLs on our z15s and there is a requirement to update the Resource Groups. In order to see from the processor which pchids are in which resource groups, so that we can compile an SoE to document what needs to be tak...
9 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

Possibility to create CSR files with key length of 4096 bits

When creating a new CSR file on an IBM Z HMC there is no option to select the key size. The generated certificate request has a fixed key size of 2048. In several countries especially for Germany it is a recommendations of the local authorities th...
10 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Future consideration

Certificate Management enhancement - Key Size and allow P12 Repository import

This relates to the Certificate Management Task (z15 and DS8K) and also to the TLS configuration in the Card Specific Advianced Funtions on the OSA ICC configuration. It should be possible to specify the length of the private key used in the certi...
10 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Planned for future release

Request to auto synch the time across all crypto adapters with the system time.

Each IBM 4768 (and other 476x series) cryptographic coprocessors maintains its own internal clock to provide timestamped logging for PCI-HSM compliance. The clock value is set for each card individually by an operator using the TKE "Set Clock" fun...
11 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 1 Future consideration

HMC/SE capability to send heartbeat notifcations

We have a requirement that sources of event messages that send events to our monitoring solution are also able to send heartbeat style events to indicate their continued ability to send events as and when they do occur, thereby providing a method ...
almost 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

DS8950F TCT Monomode Fiber connection

We need to create a cross infrastructure at a distance not supported by multimode fiber. The availability of single-mode 10Gb cards is therefore required
about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 1 Planned for future release

RCL service window reduction

In the near past, before we used RCL, the IBM SSR came on site and performed the MCL load in the datacenter. The service window was calculated on around 4hrs for one servers, both the HMCs and SEs were done in the same window. With RCL this is no ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

No support of TR31 Block D K1 keys with dual mode of use

ICSF does not support TR31 K1 keys of type D with mode of use B(for encrypt and decrypt). CSNBT31I service ends with cc8/rsn7e0 (incorrect rule array parameter content). This makes ICSF CCA incompatible with authorities that do not separate KEKs a...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 0 Future consideration

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