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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

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HMC WebServices API for Audit Query of User Profile Data

A WS API interface should be provided to send a WS API request to the HMC with an object target of HMC or CPC to gather the equivalent of the Audit and Log Mgmt task data returned for the User Profile Data selection (includes all subtypes of that).
8 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

HMC/SE LDAP Group Replication/LDAP Server Connection Validation for HMC/SE Disabled ACSADMIN user

The LDAP Groups configuration needs to be replicated automatically from the HMC to the SE. This will allow the HMC user being used at the SE to utilize LDAP Groups without manually adding that LDAP Group config at the SE. For a single disabled ACS...
8 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 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 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / DPM 1 Planned for future release

HMC support for Federation protocols(SAML 2.0 or OIDC)

Currently HMC Does not support SAML 2.0 or OIDC protocols for authentication. Our organization is moving to Federation as an Enterprise access solution and will impact how we administer HMC access.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Planned for future release

HMC FCP/NPIV Reporting Enhancement

Currently the only tools available to validate FCP/NPIV configurations are: 1) Configuration/FCP Configuration: This gives us a snapshot of the FCP/NPIV configuration – which if we need the full environment requires us to offload via FTP, which is...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Planned for future release

Please provide C++17 support for the Cryptographic Coprocessor Custom Software Developer's Toolkit (CEX7S/4769)

C++ provides valuable features to the UDX developper in order to extend the standard IBM CCA functionality:- Guaranteed intialization of variables and objects during creation (constructor)- Guaranteed clean-up of variables while destroying the obj...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 2 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 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Planned for future release

Enhance information sent by SNMP trap by Case number

Hello, we have enabled SNMP trap in HMC to allow IBM Netview to collect messages and automatically create incident ticket in IPC tool to have it in sync with IBM Case ticket. In current situation IBM Case number is visible in HMC but SNMP trap pro...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware 3 Planned for future release

HMC - add IODF description field

To add a column on the Hardware Management Console GUI display to display the IODF Description. This will allow freeform text (in a limited field size) to describe what the LPAR represents.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

JPMC RFE is needed to ask for future support to be able to delay, NOT CANCEL the scheduled code upgrade via the HMA. Today, there is no deferral option only a cancel option when approaching scheduled start time.

As there are many occasions where we need to delay the code activate for a period of time within scheduled window and would be a benefit not have to fully cancel and reschedule. Also, we are reluctant to do RCL in production is the inability to do...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

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