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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

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    Connect TKE to HMC to set the masterkey instead of a LPAR

    Hello, Today we need to have an active LPAR on a Z to connect the TKE to enter the masterkey for another LPAR on this Z The security officers who own a part of the masterkey need to have an account on this LPAR ; this LPAR need to be started etc.....
    5 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / TKE Workstation 0 Not under consideration

    "Manage PCI System Services" Panel - View Access

    We are currently installing the MCLs on our z15s and there is a requirement to update the Resource Groups. In order to see from the processor which pchids are in which resource groups, so that we can compile an SoE to document what needs to be tak...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Future consideration

    change HWI_STPCONFIG to return the External Timing Source Address as well.

    We are required to provide evidence on a regular basis that the Mainframe is configured to use NTP timing. We want to automate the data collection for auditors. We use BCPii to pull back a lot of information about our systems, but while the HWI_ST...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Planned for future release

    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...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Planned for future release

    make HMC screen "Users and Tasks" data visible to bcpii or some other API

    follow up to ZOS-I-4400 We had a problem where a user locked out CBU's by leaving the change model screen. IBM in TS017175982 said that we could look in the Users and Tasks screen to see which HMC and user had done that. We would like the informat...
    10 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Future consideration

    Support more than 4 Subchannel Sets in each LCSS

    With the plan of defining a MM 4-Site disk topology, the base devices of each copy of disk will occupy all the 4 Subchannel Sets currently supported leaving no Subchannel Set for defining Alias devices. Therefore to support a MM 4-site disk topolo...
    11 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 4 Not under consideration

    HMC Security requires pattern matching to support our DevOps model

    We need to give appropriate permission to our Linux LPARs to our DevOps community, we have dozens of different use cases with their own DevOps team. Separation of duty is critical, and elevated authority (such as PoR, STP/CTN etc) must be able to ...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Planned for future release

    Create Health Check for Hardware Messages

    We would like to have a health check for hardware messages on HMC. For example, when an RSF service call fails for some reason, it will be reported on HMC but we would like to see an exception on health check panel to. In our installation the HMCs...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Not under consideration

    Additional Verifications for some HMC operations.

    Normally, Z HMC infrastructure requires password verification when the performed operation is disruptive. For example if you are deactivating a running LPAR, the system warns you well and says that this is a disruptive operation and asks for your ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Future consideration

    An ability for the customer to have a screen / screens where they can check how many tests / activations they have used and how they have left.

    Customers will benefit from this. Also IBMers can benefit. Customer will be able to view these balances on a self-service basis and not be dependent on IBM.
    6 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Under review

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