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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

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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...
4 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.....
4 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / TKE Workstation 0 Not under consideration

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...
5 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 1 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...
7 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 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

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.
11 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 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 ...
12 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 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.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 2 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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Not under consideration

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