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HMC/HMA & Radius Authentication

Update/modification to Idea ZL1S-I-400. The client is requesting HMC/HMA support/integration for Radius Authentication. This needs to address the scenario where there is no z/OS available in the environment (i.e., therefore not dependent on MFA).
25 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Submitted

Prevent LPAR definitions that would span CPC drawers

When configuring LPAR definitions for a CEC via the HMC, logic should exist to prevent customers from specifying a configuration of zIIPs, CPs, and weight that would result in an LPAR that spans drawers. Basically, perform the calculations for the...
27 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 0 Submitted

Mask LPAR data in multi customer environment

We are a service provider managing multiple customers sharing the same mainframe CPC.Our need is to avoid a customer can read LPAR usage data belonging to other customer (different group capacity).In other words we have multiple LPAR group (one fo...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 5 Not under consideration

Support Element BCPii should notify the operating system when the CPC is put into and out of SERVICE mode

The BCPii in the z16 processor was enhanced to notify the operating system that the SE is unavailable when it is rebooting and when it is back online and available to be used. Use case was so that Operations didn't have to manually suspend BCPii v...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

Possibility to create CSR files with key length of 4096 bits

When creating a new CSR file on an IBM Z HMC there is no option to select the key size. The generated certificate request has a fixed key size of 2048. In several countries especially for Germany it is a recommendations of the local authorities th...
10 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Future consideration

Allow CBU real activation during CBU test

Allow CBU real activation during CBU test.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 6 Planned for future release

Simplify Crypto Cipher Management in HMC

Currently HMC just offers a list (in a not auto scaling window) of available ciphers without any further details to which TLS version they might belong. It would be a great simplification if I can just select that I want to use TLS1.3 and TLS1.2 a...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Planned for future release

Add VLAN tagging capability to OSA ICC in the advanced facilities configuration - z feature code 0455

The OSA 1GE cards do support VLAN tagging .. but the OSA-ICC “appliance” does not support VLAN tagging. UPS is requesting that VLAN Tagging support be added to the Advanced Facilities configuration option for the OSA-ICC server
4 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 1 Future consideration

HMC WebServices API for Audit Query of User Profile Data

A WS API interface should be provided to send a WS API request to the HMC with an object target of HMC or CPC to gather the equivalent of the Audit and Log Mgmt task data returned for the User Profile Data selection (includes all subtypes of that).
about 1 month ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

Certificate Management enhancement - Key Size and allow P12 Repository import

This relates to the Certificate Management Task (z15 and DS8K) and also to the TLS configuration in the Card Specific Advianced Funtions on the OSA ICC configuration. It should be possible to specify the length of the private key used in the certi...
10 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Planned for future release

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