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    MCL Accept Remains Available Even After Being Actioned on SE but not on HMC

    After performing an Accept for currently installed MCLs, via a HMC, the option is then greyed out on the panel which indicates that there are no further mcls to accept. However, if you do the same Accept on a processor the option remains available...
    3 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Under review

    Unable to Edit Backup Settings On An Existing HMC Scheduled Operation

    We setup some initial scheduled ops inc backups for our new processor and DR61 HMAs but we didnt have FTP setup so these were just to USB (HMA) and Primary/Alternate SE (CPU). I have since defined the FTP server settings and went back into edit th...
    3 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Is a defect

    Provide more diagnostic data for Coupling Express Long Reach Adapter Ports

    When verifying connectivity of multiple Coupling Express ports,it's time consuming to obtain information such as Tx and Rx power levels to diagnose the health of connections and requires the user to click through various panels on each adapter to ...
    10 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Future consideration

    HMC WebServices API support for New Certificates

    WS API support should be added to allow generation and import of HMC server Certificates (remote browsing, WS APIs, etc). There needs to be an API to generate the CSR (Certificate Signing Request). There is also a need for an API to then allow the...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Planned for future release

    Dashboard that tracks and informs on all z server capacity options , records , dates etc

    Give us a tool to see the state of z server options Active capacity Engine config Any timer that is active on temp capacity - or any other cap type Any date that is pertinent to withdrawal of feature (no option to replenish) Oocod activity Provide...
    7 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Planned for future release

    make bcpii V1 HWI_RESERVEID information visible in V2 API

    W we had a problem during a DR test where we were not able to do a CBU (via EMC GDDR software which uses BCPii) because someone had left a panel open. IBM says that HWI_RESERVEID is in the old (version 1) of BCPii would have let us know that his w...
    11 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 2 Future consideration

    Configure OSA 5S outside of HMC

    OSA 5S cards can only be configured from the HMC, which is traditionally a CE roll. CEs generally are not familiar with having to code OSA card parameters such as loading the SNA microcode on an OSA card. Mainframe networking support team does not...
    almost 12 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 7 Future consideration

    HMC Support for Secure SMTP and SMTP Authentication

    We have setup e-mail alerts within the HMC that are critical to the operation of our systems. We have a requirement internally to remove insecure SMTP and use Secure SMTP with Authentication. Currently, the HMC does not support Secure SMTP (TLS) o...
    about 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 12 Planned for future release

    Optionnaly hide LPAR performance data despite HiperDispatch

    Despite that HiperDispatch requests that the LPAR option named 'performance data control' be activated, we would like to have the possibility to manage the accesses to these performance data based on the same security rules as they exist in the BC...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 3 Not under consideration

    masterkeys that are set on LPAR location should be verified from the HMC

    Hello, We have 2 Z in our datacenter for covering a need of business continuity plan Each LPAR running on one Z is able to be restarted on the other Z if needed To verify if the masterkey is correctly set on the location of the LPAR on the other Z...
    5 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / TKE Workstation 0 Not under consideration

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