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HMC/Support Element (SE)

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SE Log to help troubleshoot API timeouts

System: zSeries Support ElementActor: Computer Operation group needing new feature The SE provides various logs that help with managing activities. We are a software development shop that uses both BCPii and Web Services APIs. We have a number of ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

HMC userid with access to all Web Services API logs

As a development shop we have a number of users testing Web Services APIs on the HMC. Some of these APIs are known to cause lockouts of the SE (such as those in Perform Model Conversion) - both changes and queries. We need a central place to audit...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Not under consideration

System z does not respond due to internal reservations

After a microcode update on System z, the system did not respond due to internal reservations without any trace who occupied the system's resources. Tasks were canceled without any hint was happend. We need some kind of mechanism that tasks execut...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

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...
over 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...
over 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
almost 9 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...
almost 7 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...
about 7 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...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Not under consideration

zHMC WEB API Service command for channel toggles

JPMC has asked about using a WEB Services API command to the HMC to toggle a channel.
over 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 4 Planned for future release

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