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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

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    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

    Enhance information sent by SNMP trap by Case number

    Hello, we have enabled SNMP trap in HMC to allow IBM Netview to collect messages and automatically create incident ticket in IPC tool to have it in sync with IBM Case ticket. In current situation IBM Case number is visible in HMC but SNMP trap pro...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware 3 Planned for future release

    HMC - add IODF description field

    To add a column on the Hardware Management Console GUI display to display the IODF Description. This will allow freeform text (in a limited field size) to describe what the LPAR represents.
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Planned for future release

    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

    Optimize repartition of the LPAR on the several drawers of the Z

    Today the algorithm of repartition of the LPAR on the several drawers is to fill the first drawer, then the second one etcIf you use few CP and few memory, all your partitions will be started on the same drawer with a L4 cache shared with all the ...
    about 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 3 Future 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

    Issue warning via the HMC when trying to deactivate a CF partition containing active structures

    During a deactivation of the CF Partition while all structures reside in that CF (one CF) can you please display the other CF partition and if it is in Maintenance Mode, please issue a warning message in red “ All CF structures are currently locat...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Future 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

    Suggest BCI instruction, I4 field to branch forward up to 32 bytes without clearing cache.

    A variation of the BCR instruction. Instead or the R destination field, the I4 Immediate 4 bit field would be 0 skip 0 or 2 bytes after instruction, 2 skip 2 or 4 bytes after instruction, ..., 15 skip 30 or 32 bytes after instruction. The miniscul...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 2 Functionality already exists

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