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    zHMC Optic Power measurement

    HMC 2.14.0 introduced a feature under the Channel Problem Determination panel called Optical Power measurement. Works for FICON only, Some clients are asking if this will be available for Inter Coupling Adapters , RoCE and zHiperlink ports as well.
    almost 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 2 Delivered

    HMC/SE LDAP Group Replication/LDAP Server Connection Validation for HMC/SE Disabled ACSADMIN user

    The LDAP Groups configuration needs to be replicated automatically from the HMC to the SE. This will allow the HMC user being used at the SE to utilize LDAP Groups without manually adding that LDAP Group config at the SE. For a single disabled ACS...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 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...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Delivered

    allow the query of all crypto related information via BCPii

    Currently it is not possible to retrieve all crypto related information regarding from the image profile of a single LPAR via BCPii.
    about 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 7 Delivered

    JPMC RFE is needed to ask for future support to be able to delay, NOT CANCEL the scheduled code upgrade via the HMA. Today, there is no deferral option only a cancel option when approaching scheduled start time.

    As there are many occasions where we need to delay the code activate for a period of time within scheduled window and would be a benefit not have to fully cancel and reschedule. Also, we are reluctant to do RCL in production is the inability to do...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 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...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 3 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 ...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 4 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?
    about 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 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...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 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...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Delivered

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