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HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link

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...
4 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Not under consideration

HMC API to change time from Standard Time to Daylight Savings Time and back

We are looking to automate tasks for testing time changes. We would like to have the ability to change the time using an API on the HMC from Standard Time to Daylight Savings Time and vice versa. This will allow us to thoroughly test our cases wit...
4 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Not under consideration

MCL Accept Remains Available Even After Being Actioned on SE but not on HMC

After performing an Accept for currently installed MCLs, via a HMC, the option is then greyed out on the panel which indicates that there are no further mcls to accept. However, if you do the same Accept on a processor the option remains available...
11 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Not under consideration

want to use LDAP services to provide logon for ACSADMIN userid.

Our company security rules state that we can not have passwords stored locally and instead use LDAP services to provide authentication. We currently have our Z16 CECs set up to do this but we can not do it on our Z15 CECs. How can we secure the AC...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Not under consideration

Ability to IPL from S3

As a customer, I'd like the ability to load an LPAR from S3 similar to the FTP support so that I can recover from backups written to the cloud.
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Not under consideration

Selectable items under Customizable Data Replication for User Profile Data

We would like to use Customizable Data Replication across all HMAs in two data centers to replicate passwords for local IDs (i.e. ACSADMIN, SERVICE) but each data center has unique User Patterns. Can the User Profile Data type have sub-categories ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Not under consideration

Manage Syslog Servers support UDP protocol

HSBC is planning to implement Z15 HMC function (Manage syslog server) to send a problem notifications from HMC to Mainframe system over UDP protocol (receive HMC problem event notifications on Syslogd logs). However, the UDP is not supported.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Not under consideration

Stand-alone IOCP should honour the POCID-ID field of the dynamic token even if IOCDS source has been edited.

In IOCDS source generated by z/OS HCD the 'processor ID' is included as the first field in the 'TOK' parameter of the ID statement. If an IOCDS is generated by HCD calling IOCP directly or by stand-alone IOCP using un-modified IOCDS source importe...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Not under consideration

Send TSAD data for z14 & z15 once per day instead of once per week

Currently TSAD is only sent once a week for z14 & z15. The data is propagated to Call Home Connect Cloud (CHCC) application which our clients use as reference for installed MCL levels, HMC levels and much more. Having 1 week delay means not ha...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Not under consideration

Certificate Management Capability on Support Elements DRV41C

The ability to access certificate managment task on the support elements in DRV41C, This would give are clients the ability to setup AD LDAP authentication for local logins to the SE via import trusted signed certificate.
about 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Not under consideration

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