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    Provide a ascertained historical view of all installed and/or activated capacity records

    Why is it useful? In our installation a variety of different capacity records are used on multiple machines with frequent changes to the activated capacity levels. This makes it cumbersome to reconstruct the active capacity levels for any given po...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 3 Functionality already exists

    Include empty slot locations in channel reports from Machine Info/Resourcelink/Cloud Connect

    When reviewing machine info, we have to manually confirm empty slot locations for potential MES updates. There is no report that shows empty slots by location.
    about 1 month ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Submitted

    add a TN3270 configuration option to disable the check for Server name & Certificate name to match

    Configurable Option to disable Verify Certificate We have encountered a situation with our TKEs at RBC. We had LPAR site certificates included in the TN3270 ring before and removed thus only TN3270 user certificate is in the keyring. More specific...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Future consideration

    LDAP Server Definitions - Different Ports and SSL for Primary and Backup

    With the current configuration options I'm able to define two hosts (primary and backup) however I'm only able to define a single port which must then match for both hosts. I need the option/flexibility to assign different settings for each host l...
    10 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Future consideration

    Allow for debugging on the HMC when configuring a Syslog Server

    Currently a Syslog Server can be configured on the HMC but there is no option to validate the connection from the HMC end. The only option the HMC offers is to send a ping. However, when the Syslog Server connection using a TLS connection the ping...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Planned for future release

    LDAP Server Definitions - Allow testing and validation

    With the current option is only possible to define the Primary and Backup hosts with a port and separate Bind DN. It would be great to offer the function to test the connection (with a ping for non-SSL and a handshake for SSL connections) and vali...
    9 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Future consideration

    Usage of certificate instead of userid/password for log data transfer

    To improve the user management process on the Mainframe HMC we want to implement regular automated reviews of the users that do have access to the HMC including the user settings.Instead of using the WebAPI we are planning to regularly send the re...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 2 Future consideration

    Notification Of A New MCL Release (HMC/SE)

    Would it be possible to get a notification when a new MCL Bundle has been released for HMC and SE Code for zSeries Mainframes? This would save checking z15, z16, z17 and HMCs to see if there has been a new MCL Bundle released for anything. The not...
    3 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Future consideration

    We need a capacity dashboard to keep track of capacity usage for CoD offerings

    Customer wants to know how much time they have spent activating their flex capcity, OOCoD etc.
    7 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Planned for future release

    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...
    over 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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