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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

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    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...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 2 Future consideration

    Add the ability to filter and entirely exclude different Hardware Messages from being presented at all on the HMC.

    Every day use of OOCoD records to increase and/or decrease capacity on demand creates multiple alerts with the following text: "One or more profiles have been modified because the upgrade data has been restored". Our operations team has to acknowl...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Future consideration

    Add VLAN tagging capability to OSA ICC in the advanced facilities configuration - z feature code 0455

    The OSA 1GE cards do support VLAN tagging .. but the OSA-ICC “appliance” does not support VLAN tagging. UPS is requesting that VLAN Tagging support be added to the Advanced Facilities configuration option for the OSA-ICC server
    about 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 1 Future consideration

    HMC/SE capability to send heartbeat notifcations

    We have a requirement that sources of event messages that send events to our monitoring solution are also able to send heartbeat style events to indicate their continued ability to send events as and when they do occur, thereby providing a method ...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Future consideration

    Enhance zHMC to add SYSLOG entries for FCP/FICON error conditions

    The zHMC appliance contains valuable information about the health of Mainframe Fiber Channel (FICON) connections. This information could be used for alerting and troubleshooting but its proprietary and can only be assessed interactively from the H...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Future consideration

    Enabling of IGMP on z16 ETS Adapters

    We are trying to use an FSM Labs Timekeeper Grandmaster II (base package 1.12; timekeeper version 8.0.31) PTP server as an External Time Source to our z16 at Bundle S31b. There is a Cisco N9K-C9348GC-FXP at Firmware Version 7.0(3)I7(7) in between....
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Future consideration

    Sync CryptoExpress clock to sysplex timer

    Currently the only way to set the clock on CryptoExpress hardware is to use the TKE workstation to manually set the time. This can result in: Discrepancy between different cryptographic hardware, especially when using multiple mainframe footprints...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 0 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...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Future consideration

    OSA-ICC 1GE Fiber Cards need to support VLAN TAGGING in the ICC Server Configuration Panels

    IBM is discontinuing the Copper based OSA that support OSA-ICC consoles. The only available OSA-ICC cards in the future will be FIBER based 1GE cards. In our environment all of our FIBER switches require VLAN tagging. This IDEA is to support a VLA...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 1 Future consideration

    NEW!! SubGroup / SuperGroups for LPAR Controls and capping

    We have found a need to control different groups under a common cap for a mainframe server. We would like the ability to have test systems with lesser priorities set to a subset value of a larger cap controlling all LPARs (including test) in this ...
    over 10 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 8 Future consideration

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