International Business Machines Corporation

Raja Das

Sandeep Korrapati

Venkatesh Sainath

Sachin Gupta

Santosh Balasubramanian

Vishwanatha Subbanna

Dhruvaraj Subhashchandran Pillai

Deepak Kodihalli

Manish Kumar Chowdhary

Nagendra K Gurram

Rayne Anderson

Ashutosh Arora

Tuan Dang

Sreedhar Janaswamy

Shakeeb Pasha Bk

David W Hixon

Providing a method and a corresponding system for encrypting customer workload data through a trusted entity such as a self-boot engine (SBE). More specifically, there is a method and a corresponding system for securely extracting out customer centric data in a manner that requires the customer payloads and/or workloads to register with the SBE and share the encryption key.

Securing customer data and internal register data during hardware checkstops in a multi-tenant environment

Validating code that is stored in non-volatile memory. In some instances, code that is written and/or processed by an outside entity that is brought into a local non-volatile memory setting can potentially compromise a given computer system. In order to ensure that this type of code is secure, there are methods to generate interrupt signals that can later be overridden by Otprom code in order to properly validate this outside code.

Validating and securing non-volatile memory

Embodiments provide a mutable CRTM schema for ensuring the integrity of a client workload on a single system as updates are made to the firmware used to initialize and run that system by booting a computing system in a secure mode; when successfully validating a boot image for the computing system via a secure verification code that is blocked from write access when the system is booted in a unsecure mode, allowing write access to the secure verification code; and continuing to boot the computing system in the secure mode according to the boot image. When booting the system and unseccessfully validating the boot image at the third time, the system boot is failed.

Unsecure to secure transition of mutable core root of trust

In an approach for selecting a boot-up path in a multi-node server, a processor receives a first set of computing capability data for a first boot-up path of a server and a second set of computing capability data for a second boot-up path of the server. A processor compares the first set of computing capability data to the second set of computing capability data. A processor determines that the first boot-up path has greater computing capabilities than the second boot-up path based on the comparison. Responsive to determining the first boot-up path has greater computing capabilities, a processor boots-up the server using the first boot-up path.

Choosing optimum nodes to boot in multi-node server

An approach for at least one service processor to receive a notification of at least one failure during an initial program load of a server and to identify at least one step failing the initial program load. The at least one service processor determines whether a set of conditions are met to switch the initial program load responsibility from a master processor to a service processor. Furthermore, responsive to the at least one service processor determining that the set of one or more conditions are met to switch initial program load responsibility, the at least one service processor assumes the initial program load responsibility.

Switching initial program load responsibility when components fail

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to EDI enveloping and provide a method, system and computer program product for multiple message source EDI enveloping with batching support. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for multi-format EDI enveloping can include receiving messages from multiple concurrent message sources, transforming the received messages into an EDI format, inserting the transformed messages into a minimal number of envelopes, and forwarding the envelopes as an EDI interchange to designated trading partners.

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