Not holding my breath. I just know that we communicate with other systems (VisaNet, MasterCard etc.) and hardware (NCR ATMs) that are "non-CCA compliant", and while sharing keys with these systems is supported under CCA it is fairly minimally documented. So I was just curious if there were "systems" outside of those by IBM that supported what I might call "CCA conforming sharing of keys".
>________________________________ > From: Phil Smith <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2013 7:43 PM >Subject: Re: IBM Mainframe (1980's) on You tube > >Frank Swarbrick wrote: >>I don't mean the applications that use it, but rather the implementations of >>CCA itself. I've only found ICSF and CCA for Linux on IBM System z. >>Since CCA is meant to be "common" I was wondering if it was implemented by >>anyone outside of IBM itself. > >Ah. I don't see the argument for that for the vendor: it's a lot of work, and >they're unlikely to need all the functions, so they're doing more work to >enable other folks to be able to port their products to that platform more >easily. And since (as Todd notes) IBM supports CCA on the four main platforms, >this would also mean implementing it for some rare system like HP/UX or >Stratus or something. > >So the net would be a lot of work on a platform that isn't mainstream to >support something that helps others. I wouldn't hold my breath! > >...phsiii > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
