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HMC-Last used profile

We are currentrly implementing the use of GDPS for shutdown/IPL production LPARs, but we have realized that currently in HMC, the "Last used profile" column, should not display the last activation profile when we IPL from GDPS, or more in general ...
11 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Under review

CFCC Command enhancement to handle a range of CHPIDs

Currenty the CFCC command "CON xx ON/OFF" does only support one CHPID. For maintenance puprpose it would be great to have the capability to enhance this command that ranges are accepted like it is the case on z/OS side. e.g.: z/OS: cf chp(30-38),o...
10 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Under review

Clear SSL session ID for specific port and/or IP address

Hi IBM development team, We have been requested to clear the SSL Session ID in the session cache (GSKSRVR). The server certificates are updated every year and our operations team would like to confirm if new certificates are used immediately after...
2 months ago in z/OS / SSL Under review

Crypto Express: Should show "Standby" status after setting OFFLINE within an LPAR to safely toggle crypto card

After MCL Update on a IBM Z CEC you may have to toggle the Crypto Express Cards to activate the new firmware code on these cards (Pendig conditions). A good description can be found in doc: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/best-practices-toggling...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Under review

IBM zEDC to increase max length of output buffer to more than 1 MB

In IBM cloud tape connector(CTC) product , we use the zEDC callable service FPZ4ABC to compress data. This service supports a maximum input and output buffer size of 1 MB. For performance reasons, CTC always invokes this service with the maximum i...
25 days ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS Under review

Managing zIIP Alternate Wait Time (zIIPAWMT) at the Service Class Level

Why is it useful? Currently, zIIP Alternate Wait Time (zIIPAWMT) can only be managed at the logical zIIP engine or LPAR level. In environments where both PROD and NON‑PROD zIIP‑eligible workloads execute within the same partition, this limitation ...
29 days ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM Under review

PFS UDS MAXSOCKETS for AF_UNIX

Currently, our application development department is using the C syslog() API to send logs to SYSLOGD. SYSLOGD forwards these messages to another syslog server which puts the data into Splunk. During our load and performance test, we hit the barri...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server Under review

Add Functionality to access EzNOSQL JSON Documents thru TCP/IP from distributed systems (outside z/OS systems)

EzNOSQL would be a nice and useful product, when JSON documents on z/OS would be accessable from "outside" z/OS out of the box i.e. thru a JDBC driver and /or open systems python libraries.
2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS EzNoSQL Under review

HMC OSA Advanced Facilities browser navigation - tab closing

The OSA Advanced Facilities task presents a list of available processors to select from. After selecting an object, and viewing the OSA panel, when the 'close' button is pressed, instead of returning to the list of available processor objects, the...
11 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...
6 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW Under review

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