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HMC/Support Element (SE)

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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...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Delivered

The Change Mirror Time on the SE does not show what it is currently set to

The Change Mirror Time option on the SE for a z15 and z16 does not show the current time the daily mirror is already set for. It only shows the current time in the window. It would be useful to know what it is set to currently so it can be checked...
10 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Delivered

Request for system Z HMC 'View LPAR controls' task

Our current z/15 HMC has a task called 'Change LPAR Controls' that allows my Configuration Mgmt. dept to manage our zCloud external customers LPDEFS such as weights, caps, etc. Due to the large number of changes our external customers require in f...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

Report-a-Problem using HMC Web Services

We would like to be able to perform a Report-a-Problem against a CPC or an HMC via Web Services. The POST properties would specify the type of RaP (Power, CPC, LAN, Software, I/O, Health Check, Other, Test automatic problem reporting) and a charac...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Delivered

zHMC CPC Properties

JPMC(Ovidio.Ruiz@JPMCHASE.com) is trying to utilize the zHMC Web API Services to pull the CPC properties and use that information to populate a database. The data provided by HMC via CPC properties is much different that the data returned via WEB ...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 4 Delivered

Provide 'authorisation via LDAP' on HMC

In the current HMC code only authentication can be done using LDAP. Authorisation is managed in HMC code. We would like to have the possibility to add authorisation so that a request to authenticate a user on LDAP also verifies if that user is all...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

Enhance LDAP Support in hmc

We want to be able to manage hmc users in specific groups and not as single users.Clarification based on the fact that:1) Users belonging to a group has the role and auhorization define for this group.2) if for example, user "xxxx" belongs to Grou...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

Early warning alert indicating this BCPii caching issue

BCPii caching issue early warning alert. Also, is there any possibility of having the SE auto reboot (or be self-correcting) for the BCPii cache issue as it does for the VPD issue?
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Delivered

zHW - HMC/Support Element (SE) Amendments

It be useful to have view access to the following options on the HMC: - View LPAR Controls- View LPAR Group Controls Under the audit and log management option it is not possible to include user info. Is it possible that this info can be added so t...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Delivered

Allow Web Services to Change Properties of Objects Under Custom Groups

Per HMC/SE DE, Web Services does not have the granularity to be able to change the properties of objects that are under custom groups on the HMC. Regardless of where objects appear under custom groups when the members of the groups are listed unde...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Delivered

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