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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

Visualization and Configuration Enhancement for CPU and storage placement

Currently PR/SM decides during Activation of LPARs where the CPUs and the storage should be allocated and which Drawer should be used (VH GCPs, VH zIIPs, VM GCPs, VM zIIPs.... starting at Drawer 1 from the "lower" end and e.g. IFLs at the "last Dr...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 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...
9 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 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...
10 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / TKE Workstation 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.....
10 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / TKE Workstation 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...
11 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Not under consideration

Increase SMT Simultaneous multithreading greater than 2

Since several month, we have lot of Rest Api calling DB2 from DDF gateway and DB2 API rest use is increasing. These Api Rest are very short and execute on ZIIP. Many years ago, when we activate SMT to 2, we noticed a real benefits for DB2 running ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 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

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