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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

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    Request to Add Full dynamic Activate support in SACF Lpar on Z14 and above

    Reference case: TS003931886When there are no requirements for a ZOS LPAR or ZVM LPAR, there is still a need to configure resources beyond coupling facility. The SACF Activation LPAR needs to be able to handle equivalent of the Dynamic Activate fun...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 5 Not under consideration

    Certificate Management Capability on Support Elements DRV41C

    The ability to access certificate managment task on the support elements in DRV41C, This would give are clients the ability to setup AD LDAP authentication for local logins to the SE via import trusted signed certificate.
    over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Not under consideration

    OSA SF on z/OS for OSA-Express 5S needed

    Starting with OSA-Express 5S Adapters OSA S/F functionality has moved from z/OS to Hardware Management Console (HMC) and Support Element (SE). We ask you to continue OSA/SF Support on z/OS for OSA-Express 5S and the following Cards.
    over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 3 Not under consideration

    Smarter HMC

    Using the z Series Hardware Management Console is a manual process to define, configure, disable, enable and IPL logical partitions. As the coupling facility control code is not shut down like an LPAR containing e.g. z/OS it could happen that the ...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Not under consideration

    Manage Syslog Servers support UDP protocol

    HSBC is planning to implement Z15 HMC function (Manage syslog server) to send a problem notifications from HMC to Mainframe system over UDP protocol (receive HMC problem event notifications on Syslogd logs). However, the UDP is not supported.
    about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Not under consideration

    SNA support of Hipersockets

    Our customer runs Communication Server on z/Linux to communicate with z/OS VTAM.Now, they connect Communications Server on z/Linux and VTAM on z/OS with OSA-Express card(SNA protocol).But, they hope to connect with Hipersockets, but Hipersockets d...
    over 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 3 Not under consideration

    Stand-alone IOCP should honour the POCID-ID field of the dynamic token even if IOCDS source has been edited.

    In IOCDS source generated by z/OS HCD the 'processor ID' is included as the first field in the 'TOK' parameter of the ID statement. If an IOCDS is generated by HCD calling IOCP directly or by stand-alone IOCP using un-modified IOCDS source importe...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 2 Not under consideration

    Need to send SNMP traps about CEC events to customer's monitiring solution

    My customer would like monitor the zSeries CECs hardware with SNMP Traps, so that when any HW error is detected by the CEC/Support Element an SNMP Trap is sent to their monitoring solution. I opened another similar request RFE ID 119355 but it was...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Not under consideration

    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

    Adding Virtual Appliances for the Compute Express Link ( CXL Virtual Switch Appliance) to the IBM LinuxONE

    Achieving Advanced Virtual AI Data Center based on Compute Express Link Attached Devices. Please, refer to the other complementary idea "Adding Compute Express Link CXL3.0 based on PCIe6 and CXL4.0 based on PCIe7 to the IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE [ZL1...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 6 Not under consideration

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