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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

HMC to support FQDN on HTTPS port 443

We disclose all applications via IBM Security Verify Access (or WebSeal) to end-users using a single port, port 443. This is currently not possible for Z HMC, of all applications. We require a quick HMC redesign to support a single Fully Qualified...
6 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Submitted

Provide SSO (Single Sign-On Option) to IBM z15/z16 SE (Support Element) similar to the HMA SSO

Why is it useful? When using SSO on the HMA it transfers your access and authentication to the SE for tasks that need to be performed on the SE. If the SE doesn’t support SSO, any action that requires authentication will fail. Who would benefit fr...
20 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Under review

Add "Customize Customer Information" task to the "SE management" window on the Support Element

Currently a user must select the CPC and then navigate to "Remote Customization" menu to get to "Customer Information" on the SE. Why not match the HMC and show it on the SE management page? Faster, easier, more sensible location for that task.
27 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Under review

View Option For "Customise Scheduled Operations" Task

It would be useful to be able to view the "Customise Scheduled Operations" panel to: See when the next scheduled operation is going to run See what scheduled operation(s) are setup What the scheduled operation is setup to do, eg does the backup ju...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Under review

Externalize integrity check for code application (MCL)

Audit is now requiring that we show any code application has NOT been altered from the source. We are aware that IBM has several internal checks in the firmware for this. We as a client can not show the auditor that the firmware has in-fact perfor...
2 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Under review

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...
3 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous Not under consideration

CFCC Command enhancement to handle a range of CHPIDs

Currenty the CFCC command "CON xx ON/OFF" does only support one CHPID. For maintenance puprpose it would be great to have the capability to enhance this command that ranges are accepted like it is the case on z/OS side. e.g.: z/OS: cf chp(30-38),o...
3 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Parallel Sysplex Future consideration

HMC-Last used profile

We are currentrly implementing the use of GDPS for shutdown/IPL production LPARs, but we have realized that currently in HMC, the "Last used profile" column, should not display the last activation profile when we IPL from GDPS, or more in general ...
4 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Planned for future release

HMC OSA Advanced Facilities browser navigation - tab closing

The OSA Advanced Facilities task presents a list of available processors to select from. After selecting an object, and viewing the OSA panel, when the 'close' button is pressed, instead of returning to the list of available processor objects, the...
4 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Not under consideration

HMC API to toggle ETS

We are looking to automate tasks for testing STP. One of the tasks we we like to automate is toggling between NTS sources and PTP sources for our External Time Source Configuration. We have the ability to do this manually through the HMC under Man...
4 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Future consideration

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