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Support automated install/update of OSA-ICC Certificates

Large environments can have dozens of ICC consoles to support out of band access to TN3270/Master Consoles. If the organization has standards/restrictions around the sharing/reuse of certificates, there's a large operational burden in renewing the...

HMC API to change time from Standard Time to Daylight Savings Time and back

We are looking to automate tasks for testing time changes. We would like to have the ability to change the time using an API on the HMC from Standard Time to Daylight Savings Time and vice versa. This will allow us to thoroughly test our cases wit...

Ability to configure a log off on idle user (automatic logoff after timeout) on the HMS/SE

Our customer was asking for this option - is it available - how can it be activated/ deactivated (case TS018530378) It appears it is not possible to configure and idle user to be logged off from the HMC/SE - for me it makes perfect sense to have t...

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 Functionality already exists

Add capability for additional users to be able to delete a request for HMA z17 Dual Control

During evaluation of the IBM HMA z17 Dual Control code we noticed that only the original requester is allowed to delete a request. It would be beneficial to allow additional users to be able to able to accomplish this process This will be helpful ...

Allow custom TCP Ports for SFTP Boot

HMC should allow to add custom TCP Ports to boot from an SFTP source. At the moment, it just uses TCP Port 22 but when the customer runs his SFTP/SSH Server on a non-standard Port, the HMC is not able to connect.Ideally the HMC allows entries like...

Extension of "Manage System Time" tab overview with NTP configuartion on z16 oscillator cards

Beginning with IBM z16, the STP physical connection to the time servers (PTP or Network Time Protocol (NTP)) is no longer established through the HMC. The time servers are connected now directly to the CEC (bypasses the SE connection).So each of t...

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...
over 2 years 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...

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...