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HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link

API messages for Capacity on Demand start

My customer would like to be able to better automate making sure that they don't exceed their CoD contract. Right now the check is based on when the model number of the CoD'd system changes but it would be useful if an API message/webhook could be...
8 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Functionality already exists

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

Format Media - Add formatting options

Primary Goal: We'd like to add the ext3 format option, for larger files to the Format Media option. This will also be required in the future as HMC back-ups grow larger in size. Secondary Goal: We'd like to add the exFAT option for large files tha...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Future consideration

Please add ACME Client feature for automatic Certificate Generation

Most if not all companies no longer allow Self-Signed Certs on their network. Most if not all organizations are requiring 90 day, 180 day or 365 Day certificate renewals. On the Z HMC this is a cumbersome task .. especially for 90 day cert renewal...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Future consideration

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 ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 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...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Planned for future release

We need a capacity dashboard to keep track of capacity usage for CoD offerings

Customer wants to know how much time they have spent activating their flex capcity, OOCoD etc.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 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...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Planned for future release

HMC/SE capability to send heartbeat notifcations

We have a requirement that sources of event messages that send events to our monitoring solution are also able to send heartbeat style events to indicate their continued ability to send events as and when they do occur, thereby providing a method ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 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...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Planned for future release

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