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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

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add a TN3270 configuration option to disable the check for Server name & Certificate name to match

Configurable Option to disable Verify Certificate We have encountered a situation with our TKEs at RBC. We had LPAR site certificates included in the TN3270 ring before and removed thus only TN3270 user certificate is in the keyring. More specific...
21 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / TKE Workstation 0 Submitted

Enhancements for IBM Z HMC Messages & Audit Log Management via Remote Syslog Server

HSBC is looking to use the remote SYSLOG capability on HMC to improve the observability on the healthiness of the automated processes running within the HMC and the overall healthiness of the processor hardware. In the process of setting up the ne...
5 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Submitted

Confirmation of Crypto When Resetting UDX Back to Factory Default

As a UDX user, we have been testing going back to the factory default (ie no UDX). Given this action resets the Master Keys it would be useful to have the Crypto number being reset in the confirmation screen. So you can go through: Select a Proces...
7 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Submitted

Remove CSR requirement to install certificates on Z HMC

No other IBM HMC's (DISK or TAPE) require the generation of a CSR to then allow the install of a CA signed Certificate. Clients have their own tools for generating CA signed certs so a CSR should not be required but should only be optional.
8 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Submitted

Selectable items under Customizable Data Replication for User Profile Data

We would like to use Customizable Data Replication across all HMAs in two data centers to replicate passwords for local IDs (i.e. ACSADMIN, SERVICE) but each data center has unique User Patterns. Can the User Profile Data type have sub-categories ...
21 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Submitted

Automatic update of MRDB when customer initiates CIU transaction.

Currently when a customer makes a permanent upgrade via CIU, the MRDB must be updated manually by the HW rep or Business Partner, leading to possible future ordering issues if the manual update is not completed.
about 1 month ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 0 Submitted

Asymmetric key encrypted data to Symmetric key encrypted data encryption(and reverse) - new API function

We have a use case today to decrypt an RSA public key encrypted payload and re-encrypt it with a symmetric key without exposing the payload in the clear out side of ICSF
about 1 month ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 0 Submitted

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