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Status Delivered
Workspace IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware
Categories HMC/Support Element (SE)
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 4, 2015

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TKE SSL support

the new TKE shipped with the z13 processors included a change to the way that the TN3270 client interacts with a TN3270 server that requires a protected (encrypted) connection via TLS.

Typically a site will share a common server certificate across multiple instances of the TN3270 server running on different systems in a sysplex. The new TKE does not cater for this and would require either separate certificates for each instance of a TN3270 server or for the certificate in use to detail the IP addresses that can be used.

This would require customers to change their existing TN3270 Server environment to allow this to work.

My contention is that the TKE should have an option to allow this (commonly used) configuration to work. Installation of the certificate used to sign the TN3270 server certificate is sufficient security for environments where the TKE is in a private customer network.

Also given that the TN3270 client still supports a non-encrypted connection anyway there isn't much point in making controls around the use of an encrypted connection onerous.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 24, 2022
    Delivered with z16 GA1
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 18, 2016

    Thank you for your request. We accepted this requested and will plan to address it in a future release.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 6, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Hardware
    Product - z Systems Hardware
    Component - HMC/Support Element (SE)
    Operating system - Linux
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Hardware
    Product - z Systems Hardware
    Component - TKE Workstation
    Operating system - Linux
    Source - None

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 5, 2015

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #79339 in product z Systems Hardware.

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