IBM Z Hardware and Operating Systems Ideas Portal
This is the public portal for all IBM Z Hardware and Operating System related offerings. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).
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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.
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ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.
zERT is designed to describe the cryptographic protection attributes that are agreed upon and actually used on each connection. It is not intended to show what either party is capable of supporting. Expanding zERT to address capabilities vs. usage would require significant design changes far beyond the client's supported signature algorithm pairs. As pointed out in the RFE, there are other ways to collect capabilities including logs and traces. However, it has always been understood that any changes to crytographic configuration for one end of a connection must be carefully and purposefully coordinated with the communication partner's cryptographic configuration. This coordination should include clear communications between the responsible administrators at both ends regarding changing requirements and expectations well ahead of the time the changes are implemented. Since IBM does not intend to expand the scope of zERT as described, we are rejecting this RFE.