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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

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    zHMC Password Encryption & Audit Report

    We have a request from a corporate auditor to explain the security controls surrounding the passwords stored within the HMC. They have requested evidence that the passwords for the accounts (i.e. OPER, SYSPROG, etc) are encrypted on the hard drive...
    about 7 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.
    almost 11 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 3 Not under consideration

    Avoid a user who needs to restart an lpar from operating on the CPC

    If a user who has to do actions against some LPAR objects (as "Load", "Activate" or "Deactivate") has access to object "CPC" can do any of this actions against the whole CPC.
    over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 2 Not under consideration

    ChaCha20-Poly1305 for IBM Z and LinuxONE

    Requesting system hardware support particularly in IBM Crypto Express features (but also in CP Assist for Cryptographic Processing, and in operating system and middleware exploiters such as z/OS System SSL) for the ChaCha stream cipher (at least t...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 4 Future consideration

    New feature of migratie DPM system by HMC/SE UI

    DPM machine do not have a formal HMC/SE UI option to migrate system configuration between different machine generation. Current solution for this DPM migration is using API. For example, if customer want to migrate a DPM machine from z14 to z15, t...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / DPM 2 Future consideration

    Crypto Hardware Adjunct Processor Assignment

    Crypto Adjunct Processors (APs) are assigned to Crypto PCHIDs at Power-on Reset time. In our experience they differ across multiple z15s despite being identical in hardware configuration. Can we manually assign APs to PCHIDs even if it requires a ...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 1 Future consideration

    Export/import Scheduled Operation

    The possibility to import/export scheduled operation from HMC. (mode like import/export profiles)
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 7 Not under consideration

    OSA internal clock sync with host time

    I am requesting that the internal OSA clock time be synchronized with an external time source. It could be the CEC/STP time or it could be an NTP source.
    almost 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 4 Planned for future release

    Provide method to determine how many drawers are installed in a z16 CEC. (Or future CECs)

    We use BCPii interfaces to create dashboard concerning our CEC environments. It would be nice to have all data concerning a CEC be accessible. In particular we would like to be able to tell how many drawers are in a CEC. (MAXxx type info).
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 3 Future consideration

    Minimize risk of odd input in HMC settings

    Defined Capacity or Group Capacity is changed on a regular basis. To minimize the risk of odd input, the new value should be checked against the old value.In case the difference is more than 50%, an appropriate warning should be displayed.
    about 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Not under consideration

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