Radoslaw, I think you mentioned in one of your follow-up posts that you're actually looking at a 1U Support Element, not a Hardware Management Console. If so, now you know that you have a smart card reader with smart card inside the SE.
IBM TKE Workstations are different, yes. It has externally accessible smart card readers. USB stands for Universal Serial Bus. There's no implication that USB-connected devices must be external, and they often aren't. Otherwise USB might've been called ESB (External Serial Bus). When a manufacturer wants to embed a smart card reader inside a piece of equipment the design choices are USB, USB, or USB. Exaggerating only slightly. — — — — — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
