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HMC/Support Element (SE)

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HMC with autoscaling windows in all 'screens'

Currently there is no HMC/SE internal alignment that windows do auto scale. As nowadays when working with large screens but the HMC window does not auto scale and works with fixed height of 30 lines, that's not very user-friendly. Hence all window...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 5 Delivered

HMC LDAP authentication should recognize RACF GROUP to determine user Authority

Currently the Z HMC supports RACF LDAP for local user authentication but the user must be locally defined. The users authority is also determined by locally defined definitions. The HMC code needs to be updated so RACF GROUPS can be defined for HM...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Delivered

Expose IBM Z IFL Resource Assignment metrics

PR/SM can assign IFLs across CPC Drawers which has a reported 10 to 20% performance impact. This is dynamic and may occur when PR/SM Global Optimisation executes. In order to be able to identify such an unbalanced configuration for our Production ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Delivered

The Change Mirror Time on the SE does not show what it is currently set to

The Change Mirror Time option on the SE for a z15 and z16 does not show the current time the daily mirror is already set for. It only shows the current time in the window. It would be useful to know what it is set to currently so it can be checked...
9 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Delivered

Copy/Paste Function in HMC Integrated ASCII Console

Enable the Copy/Paste Function in HMC Integrated ASCII Console. So a user can copy or paste data between the ASCII console and their desktop (i.e., Windows Notepad). Today users have to manually type data that they wish to copy or paste. That make...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Delivered

Improve BCPII availability during SE switch

During a concurrent SE switch BCPII is unavailable drint at least 10 minutes.I ask you to reduce this time less than 1 mn
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Delivered

HMC Data Replication and IDAA Call-Home

By design 'HMC Data Replication' does not synchronize definitions for IDAA Call-Home to other HMC's.
about 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Delivered

Passphrase support for master console logins

Using MFA on z/OS, and need passphrase support for logging on to the master console. Most other login entry points are passphrase enabled
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 4 Delivered

Provide "Scheduled Operations" support in the HMC for updates to the Defined Group Capacity Settings for z13 machines.

Add the capability for a z13 HMC to modify the Defined Group Capacity Settings using the "Scheduled Operations" capability of the HMC.
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Delivered

Unix Syslogd Support as additional transport mechanism for messages on HMC and SE to remote syslogd gatherer

To comply with PCI DSS requirements a central syslog gathering server is installed in our infrastructure and especially the distributed systems send all their relevant messages to this instance using the syslogd function. To integrate the HMC and ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

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