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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

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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

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

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

Coordinated change master keys and key storage from TKE workstation

[Request] Create consistent Key Set function from TKE workstation to Domain Group on Linux only environment. [Issue]-Inconsistent master key “SET” operation from TKE workstation on z/Linux only environment-Cannot use “Set, immediate”, because this...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 3 Future consideration

CMT#AB6351

When Correctable Error(CE) occurs in the CPU L3 cache in LinuxONE, db2sysc/gskit issues KMC instruction,After recovering Correctable Error (CE), HW recovery failed because KMC instruction could not rerun that original data was already encripted.IP...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 2 Future consideration

ESAIO Tool Improvements

Wells Fargo relies on the ESAIO tool to validate I/O configurations, cabling changes, and path problems outside of our production arena. A few changes are needed to enhance the product and facilitate better safeguarding of production assets: 1) ES...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 5 Future consideration

Support for Diffie-Hellman in the crypto coprocessor cards (CEXnC)

We call in our CICS applications external webservices and external http requests, which are hosted at external Partners, means there is a http conversation between CICS and an external Partner, in which CICS has the role Client. For security reaso...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 2 Future consideration