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    Enhancements for IBM Z HMC Messages & Audit Log Management via Remote Syslog Server

    HSBC is looking to use the remote SYSLOG capability on HMC to improve the observability on the healthiness of the automated processes running within the HMC and the overall healthiness of the processor hardware. In the process of setting up the ne...
    12 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Future consideration

    Request to auto synch the time across all crypto adapters with the system time.

    Each IBM 4768 (and other 476x series) cryptographic coprocessors maintains its own internal clock to provide timestamped logging for PCI-HSM compliance. The clock value is set for each card individually by an operator using the TKE "Set Clock" fun...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 1 Future consideration

    System Recovery Boost - Monitoring of zIIPs

    Hello IBM, We've been checking the workings of SRB on our z15s and I came across the following problem ... At shutdown of z/OS via GDPS or System Automation, STC IEASDBS is started and it sets reserved zIIPs online. So far so good. At IPL, due...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 0 Future consideration

    PASS_MAX_DAYS setting

    Hi, The typical default for password expiration on Ubuntu in /etc/login.defs is "PASS_MAX_DAYS 99999" which means effectively it's not enabled, unless you choose to modify the setting. However, on the image " Ubuntu Linux 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish Min...
    6 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware 4 Under review

    Asymmetric key encrypted data to Symmetric key encrypted data encryption(and reverse) - new API function

    We have a use case today to decrypt an RSA public key encrypted payload and re-encrypt it with a symmetric key without exposing the payload in the clear out side of ICSF
    about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 2 Planned for future release

    Automatic update of MRDB when customer initiates CIU transaction.

    Currently when a customer makes a permanent upgrade via CIU, the MRDB must be updated manually by the HW rep or Business Partner, leading to possible future ordering issues if the manual update is not completed.
    about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Functionality already exists

    Enable Multi-VSwitch Link Aggregation for z12

    Please provide MCL updates to allow z12 (EC and BC) to exploit Multi-VSwitch Link Aggregation on OSA4s and OSA5s (same hardware as z13
    over 10 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 4 Not under consideration

    Prevent LPAR definitions that would span CPC drawers

    When configuring LPAR definitions for a CEC via the HMC, logic should exist to prevent customers from specifying a configuration of zIIPs, CPs, and weight that would result in an LPAR that spans drawers. Basically, perform the calculations for the...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Future consideration

    Request ZHMC to provide API for syslog server management

    Currently, syslog server can be configured in ZHMC via GUI, but it can't be configured via API, which doesn't meet the requirement of interoperation. The purpose of configuring syslog server is to aggregate ZHMC logs to logging platform, which usu...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Planned for future release

    Customer is requesting an RFE to provide a progress indicator for CFCC image activation.

    Due to the large amount of storage we define in the CFCC image, it is taking 10 minutes or more for the CFCC Operating System Messages console to come up after we activate a CFCC image. The image activation itself that you initiate at the HMC comp...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Parallel Sysplex 0 Planned for future release

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