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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

Externalize integrity check for code application (MCL)

Audit is now requiring that we show any code application has NOT been altered from the source. We are aware that IBM has several internal checks in the firmware for this. We as a client can not show the auditor that the firmware has in-fact perfor...
2 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Under review

View Option For "Customise Scheduled Operations" Task

It would be useful to be able to view the "Customise Scheduled Operations" panel to: See when the next scheduled operation is going to run See what scheduled operation(s) are setup What the scheduled operation is setup to do, eg does the backup ju...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Under review

Provide SSO (Single Sign-On Option) to IBM z15/z16 SE (Support Element) similar to the HMA SSO

Why is it useful? When using SSO on the HMA it transfers your access and authentication to the SE for tasks that need to be performed on the SE. If the SE doesn’t support SSO, any action that requires authentication will fail. Who would benefit fr...
21 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Under review

Support crypto accelerators in go/crypto / HashiCorp Vault (Enterprise)

Currently HashiCorp Vault is compiled using a statically linked go/crypto library which doesn't use openssl or openCryptoki. This results in no support for libica on IBM Z / LinuxOne machines and thus lower performance than expected. It would be n...
9 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW Under review

Add "Customize Customer Information" task to the "SE management" window on the Support Element

Currently a user must select the CPC and then navigate to "Remote Customization" menu to get to "Customer Information" on the SE. Why not match the HMC and show it on the SE management page? Faster, easier, more sensible location for that task.
28 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Under review

Add Support to CSNDSYX, for stronger Hashing Methods like SHA-512 for CKM-RAKW to get RFC5649 output.

Add Support to CSNDSYX, for stronger Hashing Methods like SHA-512 for CKM-RAKW to get RFC5649 output. CKM_RSA_AES_KEY_WRAP is a two step process; AES Ephemeral Key gets wrapped with Public key (RSA-OAEP+SHA512) AES Ephemeral Key wraps the AES ...
7 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW Under review

Extend HMC DPM capabilities to also be available in classic (PR\SM) mode

Enhancement Request: The HMC provides extensive information about the CPC environment; however, many core metrics are currently only accessible when the CPC is operating in DPM mode. This limitation restricts users running in PR/SM mode from acces...
11 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / DPM Under review

Add capability for additional users to be able to delete a request for HMA z17 Dual Control

During evaluation of the IBM HMA z17 Dual Control code we noticed that only the original requester is allowed to delete a request. It would be beneficial to allow additional users to be able to able to accomplish this process This will be helpful ...
4 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Under review

Update for allowing duplicate named request for Dual Control HMA z17 code

While doing some evaluations of IBM HMA dual control z17 features we ran across a situation where we could not use the same name for a request if that name was currently in progress, or completed. We realize we could once it was deleted but we are...
4 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Under review

Create HMAC Keys with 64 Byte with TKE and store it at smart cards

We need to provide HMAC keys with a length of 64 bytes (HMAC512), and we need to manage these keys with smart cards. Currently, the only way I know to generate such keys without manually entering the key is UKO. Otherwise, there is no way to gener...
6 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware Under review

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