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Add bulk processing to HWIQUERY for activation/load profiles in zEC12 and up

Expand the BCPii "bulk processing" improvements for HWIQUERY in z/OS 2.1 to retrieving the activation and load profile attributes (HWI_IMAGE_ACTPROF and HWI_LOAD_ACTPROF). This is in conjunction with the BCPii RFE#83196, as I understand the limita...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Delivered

IPv6 support for OSA ICC

OSA ICC (Integrated Console Controller) should support IPv6.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 3 Delivered

TKE SSL support

the new TKE shipped with the z13 processors included a change to the way that the TN3270 client interacts with a TN3270 server that requires a protected (encrypted) connection via TLS. Typically a site will share a common server certificate across...
about 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 4 Delivered

Hiperdispatch: provide parmfile for manual intervention

Please provide an PARMLIB Member (maybe DIAGxx) for Manual adjustment of HIPERDISPATCH Settings. We are a rel. small z/OS shop. We have an 705 with more that 10 running LPARs. 2 PROD LPARs are rel. big...the rest rel. small from point of share. Th...
about 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 4 Delivered

Provide SOCIPHER support for outbound SSL calls

Currently, CICS 5.1 allows for the recording of which specific cipher was negotiated on an inbound SSL handshake in the CMF performance record. Such support should be extended to outbound SSL handshakes.
about 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 6 Delivered

SE backup via FTP to HMC

Currently backup from SE runs via FTP to an customer server. But our SE are in a secure network environment and no FTP to other network is available. In this secure network is the HMC (a PC tower from IBM) too.We need a FTP funtion on this HMC to ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 5 Delivered

Add CALL-HOME function when "Report Loss of Communication" detected as HMC options of z Systems.

In unattended service sites, if the HMC-SE network is disconnected for some failures, no one can find it because there is only H/W messages of "Report Loss of Communication" on HMCs, and there is no option for call-home of it. Therefore, SE failur...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 4 Delivered

XCF - Return code improvement if the Notepad is unavailable

IBM and Itaú teams discussed the resilience design review of a homemade application which uses the XCF Notepad as a prerequesite for an active/active high availability model. Due to some characteristics of Itaú environment, we agreed that the inab...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 1 Delivered

SVC DUMP generation causes an application time-out error

Before this, SVC DUMP generation from an address space has caused WLM time-out under our WebSphere Application Servers. SVC DUMPs generated tend to grow its size as customer system environments expand. Once SVC DUMP is generated, DUMPSRV puts DUMP...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Storage Management (inc. RSM/ASM/VSM/DIV) 2 Delivered

PFI-IT0311-1384 HMC and TKE Workstation as a 19 rack server

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Bernd.Daubner@izb.deSubmitters Company: Finanz Informatik Technical Services (FI-TS) PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PFI-IT0311-1384 HMC and TKE Workstation as a 19 rack serverHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Cat...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / TKE Workstation 5 Delivered

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