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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

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    change HWI_STPCONFIG to return the External Timing Source Address as well.

    We are required to provide evidence on a regular basis that the Mainframe is configured to use NTP timing. We want to automate the data collection for auditors. We use BCPii to pull back a lot of information about our systems, but while the HWI_ST...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Planned for future release

    Support Element BCPii should notify the operating system when the CPC is put into and out of SERVICE mode

    The BCPii in the z16 processor was enhanced to notify the operating system that the SE is unavailable when it is rebooting and when it is back online and available to be used. Use case was so that Operations didn't have to manually suspend BCPii v...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Planned for future release

    HMC Security requires pattern matching to support our DevOps model

    We need to give appropriate permission to our Linux LPARs to our DevOps community, we have dozens of different use cases with their own DevOps team. Separation of duty is critical, and elevated authority (such as PoR, STP/CTN etc) must be able to ...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Planned for future release

    Asymmetric key encrypted data to Symmetric key encrypted data encryption(and reverse) - new API function

    We have a use case today to decrypt an RSA public key encrypted payload and re-encrypt it with a symmetric key without exposing the payload in the clear out side of ICSF
    about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 2 Planned for future release

    Request ZHMC to provide API for syslog server management

    Currently, syslog server can be configured in ZHMC via GUI, but it can't be configured via API, which doesn't meet the requirement of interoperation. The purpose of configuring syslog server is to aggregate ZHMC logs to logging platform, which usu...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Planned for future release

    Customer is requesting an RFE to provide a progress indicator for CFCC image activation.

    Due to the large amount of storage we define in the CFCC image, it is taking 10 minutes or more for the CFCC Operating System Messages console to come up after we activate a CFCC image. The image activation itself that you initiate at the HMC comp...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Parallel Sysplex 0 Planned for future release

    Missing syslog messages for important configuration changes on the HMC

    There are currently no logs for when the syslog forwarding configuration is changed, nor when changes are made to the SSL/TLS certificates used by the HMC for connections to other servers, such as remote syslog server. We need this feature to effe...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 2 Planned for future release

    HMC/HMA & Radius Authentication

    Update/modification to Idea ZL1S-I-400. The client is requesting HMC/HMA support/integration for Radius Authentication. This needs to address the scenario where there is no z/OS available in the environment (i.e., therefore not dependent on MFA).
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Planned for future release

    allow BCPii to show current number of engines enabled to a Z/OS (and any other type of) LPAR

    There is currently a field in BCPii (number-general-purpose-processors) that we thought was the number of current GP engens enabled. Support has confirmed that this is not the current number of engines that are live, it's once again a re-statement...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Planned for future release

    DPM support of Internal Shared Memory / SMC-D

    DPM should allow for configuration of Internal Shared Memory (ISM) for SMC-D
    over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / DPM 1 Planned for future release

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