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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

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HMC asks for user and pasword verification due to weight or capping LPAR change

Whenever necessary to change Mainframe LPAR weight or capping attributes, let HMC asks for password confirmation as double check and as a way to keep track of changes
about 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 5 Planned for future release

CEC degradation is not a major alert

When there is a CEC refrigeration problem, the CEC protects itself reducing processor speed to decrease power consumption and heat generation. The hardware alert generated is not considered a critical condition by IBM service and is not tacked int...
about 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Not under consideration

zManager WebServices API

We are looking to be able to use WebServices API to perform the below updates per a request of our Performance Team. We followed up with BMC as well to review the IBM doc. Per BMC response and the IBM doc, the fields listed below are fields that a...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 4 Not under consideration

KVM for IBM z Systems - RFE Test

Only a test to validate process
over 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 3 Not under consideration

FICON Status reporting

JPMC would like another option other than CONFIGxx on z/OS to report the status of channels on their z13's using Automation. A WEB API to submit a query to all channels for the operating status, then they would take the information returned and co...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Planned for future release

Cipher Text Translate to suport ASYM<-->SYMMETRIC translations

3rd party clients are using ASYM PKCS11 encrypt/decrypt to send for example CC numbers to us. Vice Versa as well. Local DB2 database stores the CC numbers using a symmetric key.Would like a enhancement to CIPHER text translate or new function to p...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 10 Not under consideration

CMT#AB6351

When Correctable Error(CE) occurs in the CPU L3 cache in LinuxONE, db2sysc/gskit issues KMC instruction,After recovering Correctable Error (CE), HW recovery failed because KMC instruction could not rerun that original data was already encripted.IP...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 2 Future consideration

M/T 2964 (z13) WCU Pump Switch

This is a customer request (Walmart) to be able to manually switch the WCU pumps. Currently the WCU pumps switch ever 47 days. Customer had a couple of situations where the customer supply loop valves were not open on the redundant supply loop and...
about 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 3 Not under consideration

HMC health self assessment

The HMC is performing more and more functions, many of which do not require a user sitting at the physical HMC, and so if the HMC is suffering from health issues it may not always be noted in a timely fashion and invoking function remotely may fai...
about 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Not under consideration

Add zkey / paes support for the ZFS filesystem encryption

Canonical/Ubuntu is exploring using ZFS native encryption (without LUKS) when deploying on the ZFS Linux filesystem. ZFS is already available on Ubuntu Server for s390x. Currently with LUKS on s390x installers default to using zkey/paes if availab...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 4 Not under consideration

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