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    Provide more diagnostic data for Coupling Express Long Reach Adapter Ports

    When verifying connectivity of multiple Coupling Express ports,it's time consuming to obtain information such as Tx and Rx power levels to diagnose the health of connections and requires the user to click through various panels on each adapter to ...
    10 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Future consideration

    HMC WebServices API support for New Certificates

    WS API support should be added to allow generation and import of HMC server Certificates (remote browsing, WS APIs, etc). There needs to be an API to generate the CSR (Certificate Signing Request). There is also a need for an API to then allow the...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Planned for future release

    Dashboard that tracks and informs on all z server capacity options , records , dates etc

    Give us a tool to see the state of z server options Active capacity Engine config Any timer that is active on temp capacity - or any other cap type Any date that is pertinent to withdrawal of feature (no option to replenish) Oocod activity Provide...
    7 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Planned for future release

    make bcpii V1 HWI_RESERVEID information visible in V2 API

    W we had a problem during a DR test where we were not able to do a CBU (via EMC GDDR software which uses BCPii) because someone had left a panel open. IBM says that HWI_RESERVEID is in the old (version 1) of BCPii would have let us know that his w...
    11 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 2 Future consideration

    HMC Support for Secure SMTP and SMTP Authentication

    We have setup e-mail alerts within the HMC that are critical to the operation of our systems. We have a requirement internally to remove insecure SMTP and use Secure SMTP with Authentication. Currently, the HMC does not support Secure SMTP (TLS) o...
    about 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 12 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...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Future consideration

    change HWI_STPCONFIG to return the External Timing Source Address as well.

    We are required to provide evidence on a regular basis that the Mainframe is configured to use NTP timing. We want to automate the data collection for auditors. We use BCPii to pull back a lot of information about our systems, but while the HWI_ST...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Planned for future release

    Support Element BCPii should notify the operating system when the CPC is put into and out of SERVICE mode

    The BCPii in the z16 processor was enhanced to notify the operating system that the SE is unavailable when it is rebooting and when it is back online and available to be used. Use case was so that Operations didn't have to manually suspend BCPii v...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Planned for future release

    make HMC screen "Users and Tasks" data visible to bcpii or some other API

    follow up to ZOS-I-4400 We had a problem where a user locked out CBU's by leaving the change model screen. IBM in TS017175982 said that we could look in the Users and Tasks screen to see which HMC and user had done that. We would like the informat...
    10 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Future consideration

    HMC Security requires pattern matching to support our DevOps model

    We need to give appropriate permission to our Linux LPARs to our DevOps community, we have dozens of different use cases with their own DevOps team. Separation of duty is critical, and elevated authority (such as PoR, STP/CTN etc) must be able to ...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Planned for future release

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