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HMC/Support Element (SE)

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Need a "select all data types" option when doing HMC backups

System: z Series HMC - Drivers 36, 41 and future.Actor: User needing new feature Description: "Save/Restore Customizable Console Data" is used to back up all customizable data types on each of our HMCs. We backup all data types and a manual select...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Delivered

HMC <-> Support Element Communication must comply with PCI DSS / security requirements

To be compliant with the current PCI DSS requirements, certain cipher suites and signature algorithm must be used for the encrypted communication between HMC and Support Element. In contrast to the Web Frontend communication it is not possible to ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

Enhance CIU display and procedure for permanent upgrades.

Using ResourceLink, CIU to order a permanent upgrade to an 8561 was successful and the record download ready. From the HMC, we performed model conversion, permanent upgrades with the retrieve processor upgrade data but do not apply successfully. D...
7 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

Creating and Deleting Profiles on HMC/SE via BCPII

We have been using BCPII for quite a while to automate the control of the "defined capacity" in our z/OS Images. This was an important milestone for us because the defined capacity values can change very frequently based upon our clients requests....
over 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 5 Delivered

LDAP Group Support for System z HMC

The System z HMC currently does not support LDAP Groups. We are unable to utilize the alternate method using templates as we are unable to update the LDAP schema for our users. We are requesting the capability for defining LDAP Groups on the Syste...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Delivered

realtime HMC/SE logging at a syslog server

We have the requirement to collect all messages, logs,... at a central point like a syslog server (e.g. Splunk).It has to became possile to collect all HMCs and SEs messages (Logs, API-Requests, HW-messages,...) there in realtime. The aim is to re...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Delivered

Meaningful internal battery feature hardware message

Due to the conversion of the battery technology inside the Internal Battery Feature (IBF) of the IBM z15 systems to lithium-ion batteries and the associated risk of thermal runaway, an effective and quick alert is required in recognizable critical...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Delivered

Missing syslog messages for important configuration changes on the HMC

There are currently no logs for when the syslog forwarding configuration is changed, nor when changes are made to the SSL/TLS certificates used by the HMC for connections to other servers, such as remote syslog server. We need this feature to effe...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Delivered

HMC Email From Domain Setting

HMC EMAIL NOTIFICATION NEEDS TO INDICATE 'FROM' DOMAIN OF '@DOMAIN.COM' INSTEAD OF '@NAME.DOMAIN.COM' FOR SECURITY EMAIL FILTER PURPOSES.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 5 Delivered

All color adjustment of status fields.

It can be extremely difficult to identify systems "not active" and "not operating" because they use the same icon (X) and color in the status column. In the "Classical view" it was easy to quickly identify different states of objects based on thei...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

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