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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

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    Notification Of A New MCL Release (HMC/SE)

    Would it be possible to get a notification when a new MCL Bundle has been released for HMC and SE Code for zSeries Mainframes? This would save checking z15, z16, z17 and HMCs to see if there has been a new MCL Bundle released for anything. The not...
    3 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Future consideration

    Coupling Facility - channel status

    Whenever there is an HCD IO activation to delete CF links from the CF LPARs, the channels are indeed deleted and no longer available for use, however somehow they remain on the CFCC and showing up on the zOS Display CF command outputs as follows :...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Parallel Sysplex 0 Future consideration

    Format Media - Add formatting options

    Primary Goal: We'd like to add the ext3 format option, for larger files to the Format Media option. This will also be required in the future as HMC back-ups grow larger in size. Secondary Goal: We'd like to add the exFAT option for large files tha...
    9 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Future consideration

    Inclusion of CHPID/adapter status (and state) change in Monitor System Events

    It would be extremely useful if CHPID/adapter status and state change notifications could be sent through the Monitor System Events task on the HMC. For instance, notifications when a FICON CHPID status changes from Online to IFCC Threshold Exceed...
    9 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Future consideration

    Please add ACME Client feature for automatic Certificate Generation

    Most if not all companies no longer allow Self-Signed Certs on their network. Most if not all organizations are requiring 90 day, 180 day or 365 Day certificate renewals. On the Z HMC this is a cumbersome task .. especially for 90 day cert renewal...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 2 Future consideration

    Change Next Screen Displayed After Result Of "Query Switch Capabilities" Under Alternate Support Element Option

    When doing a manual Switch or Mirror of the Alternate Support Element I usually try to remember to do a "Query Switch Capabilities" before doing it to ensure that it has a good chance of working. Once I have got the result and clicked ok, it takes...
    3 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Future consideration

    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 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

    Configure OSA 5S outside of HMC

    OSA 5S cards can only be configured from the HMC, which is traditionally a CE roll. CEs generally are not familiar with having to code OSA card parameters such as loading the SNA microcode on an OSA card. Mainframe networking support team does not...
    almost 12 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 7 Future consideration

    "Manage PCI System Services" Panel - View Access

    We are currently installing the MCLs on our z15s and there is a requirement to update the Resource Groups. In order to see from the processor which pchids are in which resource groups, so that we can compile an SoE to document what needs to be tak...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Future consideration

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