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HMC/Support Element (SE)

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Create Health Check for Hardware Messages

We would like to have a health check for hardware messages on HMC. For example, when an RSF service call fails for some reason, it will be reported on HMC but we would like to see an exception on health check panel to. In our installation the HMCs...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

Remote HMC/SE access on machine swaps

We have a problem performing HMC/SE functions, when a new processor has been installed, prior to it being swapped. We need to get information (remotely) from the old processor, on to the new processor, and also be able to remotely load the new IOC...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Not under consideration

An enhancement or upgrade to allow support for SSO products, including SAM.

My organization is moving from LDAP to SAML
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 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 ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Planned for future release

Add HMC Event Monitoring option to include HW MSG Details

Background: Environment uses HMC Event Monitoring to send emails when an event is open against a CEC (Ex: Call Home .*Service authorization.*# any Service authorization messages). That email does NOT include the IBM case number that is assigned. W...
5 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

"Manage PCI System Services" Panel - View Access

We are currently installing the MCLs on our z15s and there is a requirement to update the Resource Groups. In order to see from the processor which pchids are in which resource groups, so that we can compile an SoE to document what needs to be tak...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

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...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

Need to send SNMP traps about CEC events to customer's monitiring solution

My customer would like monitor the zSeries CECs hardware with SNMP Traps, so that when any HW error is detected by the CEC/Support Element an SNMP Trap is sent to their monitoring solution. I opened another similar request RFE ID 119355 but it was...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

Disabling touchpad of HMC Table Top KMM

FC 148 HMC Table Top KMM is equipped with touchpad. But the customer is not familiar with the operation of the touchpad, so they are planning to use a mouse instead of it. To prevent accidental operation, touchpad should be able to be disabled.
over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

Display Crypto S/N in Cryptos panel

In z/OS, ICSF provides the crypto S/N. When we need to toggle the Crypto CHP from the SE, it is helpful to have the S/N, so we can correlate it to the z/OS ICSF Crypto # to ensure we have the correct Crypto. For example:D ICSF,CARDS CSFM668I 09.04...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

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