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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

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    Optimize DMR to Minimize Performance Impact During Drawer Swaps

    On IBM z16 servers, we have observed a significant increase in the cost of accessing data/memory located in a remote drawer. In certain scenarios, this can result in a notable increase in CPI, leading to an LPAR’s CPU utilization doubling -or even...
    6 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 1 Not under consideration

    Improvemet for recovery from MCL out of sync status

    The failure of SE console HDD were occurred during MCL apply. Then it was MCL out of sync status.If the difference between MCL of SE Console and MCL of CPC is 1 Level, POR (Power on Reset) is not required for recovery.However, if it is 2 levels or...
    over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 3 Not under consideration

    Mask LPAR data in multi customer environment

    We are a service provider managing multiple customers sharing the same mainframe CPC.Our need is to avoid a customer can read LPAR usage data belonging to other customer (different group capacity).In other words we have multiple LPAR group (one fo...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 5 Not under consideration

    STP handle multiple DST dates

    Z15 with multiple LPARs using multiple daylight savings dates. Meaning some are US Central, US Eastern which can be setup using the Image profile time offset and be automatically changed using STP Daylight savings option as their DST falls on the ...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Server Time Protocol (STP) 5 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...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Not under consideration

    Optionnaly hide LPAR performance data despite HiperDispatch

    Despite that HiperDispatch requests that the LPAR option named 'performance data control' be activated, we would like to have the possibility to manage the accesses to these performance data based on the same security rules as they exist in the BC...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 3 Not under consideration

    masterkeys that are set on LPAR location should be verified from the HMC

    Hello, We have 2 Z in our datacenter for covering a need of business continuity plan Each LPAR running on one Z is able to be restarted on the other Z if needed To verify if the masterkey is correctly set on the location of the LPAR on the other Z...
    5 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / TKE Workstation 0 Not under consideration

    Connect TKE to HMC to set the masterkey instead of a LPAR

    Hello, Today we need to have an active LPAR on a Z to connect the TKE to enter the masterkey for another LPAR on this Z The security officers who own a part of the masterkey need to have an account on this LPAR ; this LPAR need to be started etc.....
    5 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / TKE Workstation 0 Not under consideration

    Support more than 4 Subchannel Sets in each LCSS

    With the plan of defining a MM 4-Site disk topology, the base devices of each copy of disk will occupy all the 4 Subchannel Sets currently supported leaving no Subchannel Set for defining Alias devices. Therefore to support a MM 4-site disk topolo...
    10 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 4 Not under consideration

    Create Health Check for Hardware Messages

    We would like to have a health check for hardware messages on HMC. For example, when an RSF service call fails for some reason, it will be reported on HMC but we would like to see an exception on health check panel to. In our installation the HMCs...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Not under consideration

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