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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

Natively emit Open Telemetry (traces, logs, metrics) from IBM z Hardware

Enterprise adoption of modern observability practices are moving towards open standards with vendor-neutral instrumentation.IBM z hardware do not have a consistent implementation of logs, traces, and metrics, often requiring complex side-car integ...
5 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous Submitted

Add SmartNIC/DPU-like hardware for IBM system z (zOS based)

Implement SmartNIC/DPU-like hardware for IBM system z, to offload networking and security functions from zOS servers, enabling hardware-accelerated microsegmentation, firewalling, telemetry, and workload isolation at scale.
about 12 hours ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking Under review

Trigger Hardware Event in SE when IFCC threshold exceeded

In the current reporting mechanism for IFCC, No Hardware event will be generated in SE/HMC when the IFCC threshold is exceeded. Is it possible to add this in future MCL ? Adding this event logging would significantly improve error tracking for fie...
8 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Under review

Support for retrieving and configuring NTP settings at the HMC WS-API

For compliance, our use of Z systems in the IBM VPC Cloud needed to retrieve the NTP settings from the HMCs and store them for potential future audits. The WS-API of the HMC does not currently support the retrieval of the NTP settings. Therefore, ...
27 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Under review

Add port-specific TCP connectivity testing to IBM Z HMC

The IBM Z HMC is already a powerful and comprehensive management platform, providing administrators with many capabilities for configuring, operating and diagnosing IBM Z environments. However, an important network diagnostic capability is current...
16 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Under review

Complete Power Consumption Charts for Intelli Magic

After installing the z17s and re-IPLing all LPARs, the power consumption data from our CECs became visible in IntelliMagic. To be honest, I still do not fully understand why an IPL is required for this. However, there is still a gap between the To...
18 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Under review

Set https certificate for SSC lpar in HMC

At the moment when you start a SSC lpar in installer mode, the lpar starts with a self signed certificate and https isn't secure. Since connecting to the lpar via this connection is an admin connection, a direct connection between 'server' and 'us...
7 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Planned for future release

An export&import functionality for HMC Information inside Activaiton Profiles

I would like to suggest creating a functionality to transfer all the HMC LPAR and CEC information inside the "Customize/Delete activate profile" to an XML, zOS datasets or any other kind of format, making it easier to see the history of changes on...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Functionality already exists

Additional information is needed when changeing the customer contact information

It would be good to have some kind of message that if adding or changing the contact information on the HMC/SE, it must have a match with a contact in the IBM customers portal. The problem is that customers are possibly not aware that the date on ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Planned for future release

Avoid Remote VL CP Penalties By Utilizing Local Resources When Drawer Fit Fails

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous Future consideration

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