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HMC/Support Element (SE)

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Additional information is needed when changeing the customer contact information

It would be good to have some kind of message that if adding or changing the contact information on the HMC/SE, it must have a match with a contact in the IBM customers portal. The problem is that customers are possibly not aware that the date on ...
8 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Planned for future release

Allow for debugging on the HMC when configuring a Syslog Server

Currently a Syslog Server can be configured on the HMC but there is no option to validate the connection from the HMC end. The only option the HMC offers is to send a ping. However, when the Syslog Server connection using a TLS connection the ping...
9 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

HMC - Enable DNS over TLS or HTTPS

To implement concepts like zero-trust it must be possible to define in the TSS management console the Name Server as a secured one using DNSSEC and either DNS over HTTPS (DoH) or DNS over TLS (DoT).
8 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

Add HMC Event Monitoring option to include HW MSG Details

Background: Environment uses HMC Event Monitoring to send emails when an event is open against a CEC (Ex: Call Home .*Service authorization.*# any Service authorization messages). That email does NOT include the IBM case number that is assigned. W...
7 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

Simplify Crypto Cipher Management in HMC

Currently HMC just offers a list (in a not auto scaling window) of available ciphers without any further details to which TLS version they might belong. It would be a great simplification if I can just select that I want to use TLS1.3 and TLS1.2 a...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Planned for future release

add TLS1.3 to OSA-ICC

In OSA-ICC we know that in the panel configuration option when you edit server configuration, when you check the TLS version it only goes to TLS 1.2. We have a requirement to go to TLS 1.3 or above
over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

Support Element BCPii should notify the operating system when the CPC is put into and out of SERVICE mode

The BCPii in the z16 processor was enhanced to notify the operating system that the SE is unavailable when it is rebooting and when it is back online and available to be used. Use case was so that Operations didn't have to manually suspend BCPii v...
7 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

Request ZHMC to provide API for syslog server management

Currently, syslog server can be configured in ZHMC via GUI, but it can't be configured via API, which doesn't meet the requirement of interoperation. The purpose of configuring syslog server is to aggregate ZHMC logs to logging platform, which usu...
8 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

An enhancement or upgrade to allow support for SSO products, including SAM.

My organization is moving from LDAP to SAML
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Planned for future release

change HWI_STPCONFIG to return the External Timing Source Address as well.

We are required to provide evidence on a regular basis that the Mainframe is configured to use NTP timing. We want to automate the data collection for auditors. We use BCPii to pull back a lot of information about our systems, but while the HWI_ST...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

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