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Simplify Crypto Cipher Management in HMC

Currently HMC just offers a list (in a not auto scaling window) of available ciphers without any further details to which TLS version they might belong. It would be a great simplification if I can just select that I want to use TLS1.3 and TLS1.2 a...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Planned for future release

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 ...
5 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

Capability to test OSA QDIO infrastructure (MAC and IP address) without IPL'ing a system.

We have run into multiple issues when we change out hardware, where OSAs are not operational when we go to move and operate from our DR site. We need the capability of testing OSA IP address and MAC connectivity to switches without IPL'ing a z/OS ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 2 Future consideration

add TLS1.3 to OSA-ICC

In OSA-ICC we know that in the panel configuration option when you edit server configuration, when you check the TLS version it only goes to TLS 1.2. We have a requirement to go to TLS 1.3 or above
over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

Enhance zHMC to add SYSLOG entries for FCP/FICON error conditions

The zHMC appliance contains valuable information about the health of Mainframe Fiber Channel (FICON) connections. This information could be used for alerting and troubleshooting but its proprietary and can only be assessed interactively from the H...
4 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

Add options for connecting to a decommissioned CPC

When a CPC has been removed (i.e. moving from z15 to z16), it stays in the network for a little while. When doing the HWILIST such as by Broadcom's BCPii feature, it gets this decommissoned CPC and tries to connect. Once it tries the RESTful inter...
2 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

Reset Shared Secret Key User-By-User when using LDAP Templates

It would be very helpfull to have the possibility to reset the Shared Secret Key for each user-by-user when using LDAP Template. So when somebody lost their TOTP, the HMC admin can force a reset Shared Secret key for only the user who lost the TOT...
2 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

Enabling of IGMP on z16 ETS Adapters

We are trying to use an FSM Labs Timekeeper Grandmaster II (base package 1.12; timekeeper version 8.0.31) PTP server as an External Time Source to our z16 at Bundle S31b. There is a Cisco N9K-C9348GC-FXP at Firmware Version 7.0(3)I7(7) in between....
5 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

Redesign the PR/SM to manage the IBM Spyre AI Accelerators resources and enabling the z/VM and KVM to access these AI Accelerators resourses accordingvto the PR/SM

This idea is very important in IBM Z17 and Linux ONE Emperor5, to use the AI acceleratotors resources for virtual machines and/or Containerized AI workliads by z/VM and KVM. This will enable Thousands and may be Millions of Openshift AI containers...
3 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 1 Future 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...
8 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

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