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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

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An enhancement or upgrade to allow support for SSO products, including SAM.

My organization is moving from LDAP to SAML
about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Future consideration

Allow BCPii to see capacity records that have been downloaded but not accepted/installed. Even better would be for it to install those records and activate them if desired. Activation is most likely only useful for loaner record.

If there is a new capacity record downloaded, we can't even see it in BCPii. If we could we could alert someone that an action needs to be taken to "get" that record. Of course, letting BCPii get the record would be even better than just letting B...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

Crypto ID in toggle on/off panel

When isolating a crypto engine we have to verify the crypto deactivated in ICSF with the crypto engine on the toggle off/on panel. It would be beneficial if we could verify the serial number from ICSF with the toggle off/on panel before taking the...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

Adding Virtual Appliances for the Compute Express Link ( CXL Virtual Switch Appliance) to the IBM LinuxONE

Achieving Advanced Virtual AI Data Center based on Compute Express Link Attached Devices. Please, refer to the other complementary idea "Adding Compute Express Link CXL3.0 based on PCIe6 and CXL4.0 based on PCIe7 to the IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE [ZL1...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 6 Not under consideration

Adding Compute Express Link CXL3.0 based on PCIe6 and CXL4.0 based on PCIe7 to the IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE

CXL 3.0 is built upon the IBM OpenCAPI, but CXL3 and CXL 4 have more speeds and will achieve the following: 1- Enabling the Interconnection between IBM LinuxONE and Exa scale AI Data Centers based on Nvidia DGX H100 based on Nvidia H100 GPUs and I...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 6 Not under consideration

Retrieve/update Authorized LPARS that can send commands via BCPII

As service provider hosting lot of customers, defining the LPARs that can send BCPII command to an LPAR and retrieving this information are fastidious manual operations. Would be nice if we could perform it via a batch program
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Parallel Sysplex 0 Planned for future release

Option To Set A Logoff Timer For Users Showing As Disconnected

We have noticed that when some users are in Adapter panels and LPAR Controls (Possibly others) evem if they only have view access that they seem to lock the task out so others cannot access it. This seems to then remain locked even when the userid...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 2 Planned for future release

The Symmetric Algorithm Decipher callable service does not provide support to handle JWE Compact Serialization and none of the other callable services have support for this functionality.

The Symmetric Algorithm Decipher callable service does not provide support to handle JWE Compact Serialization and none of the other callable services have support for this functionality.
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 2 Future consideration

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