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    Additional information is needed when changeing the customer contact information

    It would be good to have some kind of message that if adding or changing the contact information on the HMC/SE, it must have a match with a contact in the IBM customers portal. The problem is that customers are possibly not aware that the date on ...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Planned for future release

    Confirmation Screen Before Performing An SE Switch

    Would it be possible to have a confirmation screen before an SE Switch is performed? Currently you just select the option and then click ok and it goes off and performs the SE Switch. After clicking ok, could there be a confirmation screen present...
    17 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Submitted

    Ability to configure a log off on idle user (automatic logoff after timeout) on the HMS/SE

    Our customer was asking for this option - is it available - how can it be activated/ deactivated (case TS018530378) It appears it is not possible to configure and idle user to be logged off from the HMC/SE - for me it makes perfect sense to have t...
    9 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Future consideration

    Allow custom TCP Ports for SFTP Boot

    HMC should allow to add custom TCP Ports to boot from an SFTP source. At the moment, it just uses TCP Port 22 but when the customer runs his SFTP/SSH Server on a non-standard Port, the HMC is not able to connect.Ideally the HMC allows entries like...
    7 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Future consideration

    Add link encryption capabilitys to coupling express adapters

    As of today, coupling express (LR and SR) adapters are not capable of link encryption functionality. The sysplex functionality of logically encrypting CF structures like LIST and CACHE structures is good but does not cover the need to have "everyt...
    7 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Parallel Sysplex 2 Future consideration

    Improvemet for recovery from MCL out of sync status

    The failure of SE console HDD were occurred during MCL apply. Then it was MCL out of sync status.If the difference between MCL of SE Console and MCL of CPC is 1 Level, POR (Power on Reset) is not required for recovery.However, if it is 2 levels or...
    over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 3 Not under consideration

    Extension of "Manage System Time" tab overview with NTP configuartion on z16 oscillator cards

    Beginning with IBM z16, the STP physical connection to the time servers (PTP or Network Time Protocol (NTP)) is no longer established through the HMC. The time servers are connected now directly to the CEC (bypasses the SE connection).So each of t...
    10 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Future consideration

    Provide a ascertained historical view of all installed and/or activated capacity records

    Why is it useful? In our installation a variety of different capacity records are used on multiple machines with frequent changes to the activated capacity levels. This makes it cumbersome to reconstruct the active capacity levels for any given po...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 3 Functionality already exists

    Include empty slot locations in channel reports from Machine Info/Resourcelink/Cloud Connect

    When reviewing machine info, we have to manually confirm empty slot locations for potential MES updates. There is no report that shows empty slots by location.
    about 1 month ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Submitted

    add a TN3270 configuration option to disable the check for Server name & Certificate name to match

    Configurable Option to disable Verify Certificate We have encountered a situation with our TKEs at RBC. We had LPAR site certificates included in the TN3270 ring before and removed thus only TN3270 user certificate is in the keyring. More specific...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Future consideration

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