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HMC/Support Element (SE)

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Audit outgoing and incoming data

Our auditors always wants to know what data is coming in or is leaving our datacenter. In the logs of system z hardware I can see that data was received or transmitted, but I didn't know what was in the data. The only thing I know is “Transmit ser...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

SE-logs should become more transparent

We are using personaliazed user-ids for our HMC-Users. The default user-ids are all disabled. But when we are logged in single object mode to an SE-element, we don't see the personal users logged in but we only see users like SooSysprog,… for exam...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

OUTPUT OF H/W SETTING PARAMETERS IN A LIST FORMAT

It's needed the function to output processor's setting parameters(HMC/SE parameters) in a list format.ex. NTP enable/disable
over 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Not under consideration

Create 'Blue' hardware error based on channel error threshold being exceeded

We recently has a 'storm' of IFCC errors on a FICON channel over a number of days that ended up causing an outage on a pair of VM SSI LPARs . After the fact, we saw that we'd received hundreds of "Purge Path Extended Data" errors on the channel, b...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

Allow resetting PCI FIDS without requiring Deactivation/Activation of support paartitions.

When a PCIe FID needs to be reset it is necessary to deactivate and activate the PCIe support partition that owns the card. Other cards belonging to the same support partition are also reset even though they are still usable. This causes a disrupt...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

bottle neck in the SCLP component which caused delay in sending messages between BCPii and SE.

Timeout problem when using GDPS script to automate loading 6 LPARs for system IPL. A timeout occurs in the 5th or 6th GDPS LOAD command. To bypass the timeout , it have to insert some time gap between the system IPLs. In such case, the overall IPL...
about 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Not under consideration

CEC degradation is not a major alert

When there is a CEC refrigeration problem, the CEC protects itself reducing processor speed to decrease power consumption and heat generation. The hardware alert generated is not considered a critical condition by IBM service and is not tacked int...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Not under consideration

zManager WebServices API

We are looking to be able to use WebServices API to perform the below updates per a request of our Performance Team. We followed up with BMC as well to review the IBM doc. Per BMC response and the IBM doc, the fields listed below are fields that a...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 4 Not under consideration

HMC health self assessment

The HMC is performing more and more functions, many of which do not require a user sitting at the physical HMC, and so if the HMC is suffering from health issues it may not always be noted in a timely fashion and invoking function remotely may fai...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Not under consideration

TKE 8.0 is too loud

In comparision with the TKE 7.2 the TKE 8.0 is very loud, even if it is turned off. The TKE is placed in our office and the high noise level in off mode is disturbing while working.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Not under consideration

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