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    Disabling touchpad of HMC Table Top KMM

    FC 148 HMC Table Top KMM is equipped with touchpad. But the customer is not familiar with the operation of the touchpad, so they are planning to use a mouse instead of it. To prevent accidental operation, touchpad should be able to be disabled.
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Not under consideration

    Crypto ID in toggle on/off panel

    When isolating a crypto engine we have to verify the crypto deactivated in ICSF with the crypto engine on the toggle off/on panel. It would be beneficial if we could verify the serial number from ICSF with the toggle off/on panel before taking the...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Future consideration

    Display Crypto S/N in Cryptos panel

    In z/OS, ICSF provides the crypto S/N. When we need to toggle the Crypto CHP from the SE, it is helpful to have the S/N, so we can correlate it to the z/OS ICSF Crypto # to ensure we have the correct Crypto. For example:D ICSF,CARDS CSFM668I 09.04...
    about 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Not under consideration

    Retrieve/update Authorized LPARS that can send commands via BCPII

    As service provider hosting lot of customers, defining the LPARs that can send BCPII command to an LPAR and retrieving this information are fastidious manual operations. Would be nice if we could perform it via a batch program
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Future consideration

    z14 SNMP MIB enhancement add mainframe SN, FRU location and FRU PN included,

    For some reason, the mainland mainframe clients DO NOT enable the option of call home, the response time of 7*24 standby servicedepends on the completeness of SNMP message to some extent, which is critical to keep the customer satisfaction and ser...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 2 Not under consideration

    bcpii error enhancment on group cap value

    I was trying to change a group cap and was on an LPAR that was not in the group. Instead of getting a bad data return code or something meaningful I got: REXXHostRc = 0 rc = 101 DiagArea.Diag_Index = 0 DiagArea.Diag_Key = 146 DiagArea.Diag_Actual ...
    over 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 3 Not under consideration

    Release BCPii commands to manage ADD/REMOVE Partitions, inside CAPACITY GROUP resources for zXX IBM Processors

    It could be useful for Customer called to dynamically change (expecially if required in recursively way) Lpars associated to Capacity Groups. I think it could be made available via new simple HWISET BCPii commands inside z/OS platform. Actually th...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Functionality already exists

    HMC - display timestamp of last successful logon to user

    When a user logs on to an HMC, there is no indication displayed to the user of their last successful logon to the device.
    over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Not under consideration

    CBU acctivation date when turning off a CBU

    when turning off a CBU with TEMPCAP the HWI_CBUACTIVE date does not seem to clear when everything is reset. If I issue a second TEMPCAP off the value does clear. IBM says to ignore that value. I think there's a bug if it clears when I issue the co...
    about 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 2 Not under consideration

    do not depricte oocod/cbu status from CPC

    IBM has told me that they plan to deprecate the items that allow us to check the CBU/OOCOD status without checking the individual records. This is a really bad idea. It will greatly complicate code if we have to check all the available records. I ...
    about 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 2 Not under consideration

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