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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

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Allow CBU real activation during CBU test

Allow CBU real activation during CBU test.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 6 Planned for future release

Simplify Crypto Cipher Management in HMC

Currently HMC just offers a list (in a not auto scaling window) of available ciphers without any further details to which TLS version they might belong. It would be a great simplification if I can just select that I want to use TLS1.3 and TLS1.2 a...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Planned for future release

add TLS1.3 to OSA-ICC

In OSA-ICC we know that in the panel configuration option when you edit server configuration, when you check the TLS version it only goes to TLS 1.2. We have a requirement to go to TLS 1.3 or above
about 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

Certificate Management enhancement - Key Size and allow P12 Repository import

This relates to the Certificate Management Task (z15 and DS8K) and also to the TLS configuration in the Card Specific Advianced Funtions on the OSA ICC configuration. It should be possible to specify the length of the private key used in the certi...
10 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Planned for future release

HMC Support for Secure SMTP and SMTP Authentication

We have setup e-mail alerts within the HMC that are critical to the operation of our systems. We have a requirement internally to remove insecure SMTP and use Secure SMTP with Authentication. Currently, the HMC does not support Secure SMTP (TLS) o...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 11 Planned for future release

Propagate HMC certificates to defined CPCs to allow LDAP login with secure certs.

In the conversations with IBM, the following appears to be the recommended path and we are good with this approach. We need to ensure that users (including IBM techs) can log into the Support elements using trusted AD-LDAP and our Privileged User ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Planned for future release

HMC Security requires pattern matching to support our DevOps model

We need to give appropriate permission to our Linux LPARs to our DevOps community, we have dozens of different use cases with their own DevOps team. Separation of duty is critical, and elevated authority (such as PoR, STP/CTN etc) must be able to ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

Enable Remote Option For HMC Application Restart

Would it be possible to have the option to restart the HMC app via remote access rather than just local? This maybe all that is required rather than the more heavy handed restart which I believe will take out the SE as well whereas the app restart...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

Customer is requesting an RFE to provide a progress indicator for CFCC image activation.

Due to the large amount of storage we define in the CFCC image, it is taking 10 minutes or more for the CFCC Operating System Messages console to come up after we activate a CFCC image. The image activation itself that you initiate at the HMC comp...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Parallel Sysplex 0 Planned for future release

JPMC RFE is needed to ask for future support to be able to delay, NOT CANCEL the scheduled code upgrade via the HMA. Today, there is no deferral option only a cancel option when approaching scheduled start time.

As there are many occasions where we need to delay the code activate for a period of time within scheduled window and would be a benefit not have to fully cancel and reschedule. Also, we are reluctant to do RCL in production is the inability to do...
6 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

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