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    LDAP Server Definitions - Different Ports and SSL for Primary and Backup

    With the current configuration options I'm able to define two hosts (primary and backup) however I'm only able to define a single port which must then match for both hosts. I need the option/flexibility to assign different settings for each host l...
    9 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Future 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

    An export&import functionality for HMC Information inside Activaiton Profiles

    I would like to suggest creating a functionality to transfer all the HMC LPAR and CEC information inside the "Customize/Delete activate profile" to an XML, zOS datasets or any other kind of format, making it easier to see the history of changes on...
    10 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 2 Functionality already exists

    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

    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...
    10 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 4 Not under consideration

    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

    Ability to IPL from S3

    As a customer, I'd like the ability to load an LPAR from S3 similar to the FTP support so that I can recover from backups written to the cloud.
    12 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Not under consideration

    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

    Confirmation of Crypto When Resetting UDX Back to Factory Default

    As a UDX user, we have been testing going back to the factory default (ie no UDX). Given this action resets the Master Keys it would be useful to have the Crypto number being reset in the confirmation screen. So you can go through: Select a Proces...
    12 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 3 Future consideration

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