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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

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Enhance CIU display and procedure for permanent upgrades.

Using ResourceLink, CIU to order a permanent upgrade to an 8561 was successful and the record download ready. From the HMC, we performed model conversion, permanent upgrades with the retrieve processor upgrade data but do not apply successfully. D...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

Support additional TR-31 key blocks

Our system uses ICSF, and we are working with third parties to import and export TR-31 key blocks. At least one third party so far has provided TR-31 key block examples that cannot be imported using ICSF. We would like IBM to consider relaxing som...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 6 Delivered

zHMC Optic Power measurement

HMC 2.14.0 introduced a feature under the Channel Problem Determination panel called Optical Power measurement. Works for FICON only, Some clients are asking if this will be available for Inter Coupling Adapters , RoCE and zHiperlink ports as well.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Delivered

Report-a-Problem using HMC Web Services

We would like to be able to perform a Report-a-Problem against a CPC or an HMC via Web Services. The POST properties would specify the type of RaP (Power, CPC, LAN, Software, I/O, Health Check, Other, Test automatic problem reporting) and a charac...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Delivered

allow the query of all crypto related information via BCPii

Currently it is not possible to retrieve all crypto related information regarding from the image profile of a single LPAR via BCPii.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 7 Delivered

Early warning alert indicating this BCPii caching issue

BCPii caching issue early warning alert. Also, is there any possibility of having the SE auto reboot (or be self-correcting) for the BCPii cache issue as it does for the VPD issue?
about 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Delivered

zHW - HMC/Support Element (SE) Amendments

It be useful to have view access to the following options on the HMC: - View LPAR Controls- View LPAR Group Controls Under the audit and log management option it is not possible to include user info. Is it possible that this info can be added so t...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Delivered

A request for zEDC documents

We are considering the installation of zEDC in our customer's environment. Our customer asked us how zEDC work when data compression requests exceed the capability of zEDC cards installed. We started investigation, but there was no document descri...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 2 Delivered

zHMC CPC Properties

JPMC(Ovidio.Ruiz@JPMCHASE.com) is trying to utilize the zHMC Web API Services to pull the CPC properties and use that information to populate a database. The data provided by HMC via CPC properties is much different that the data returned via WEB ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 4 Delivered

Support of RSASSA-PSS signature paddings in CCA

The padding schemes for signatures called RSASSA-PSS from PKCS#1 v2.2 are not so easy to implement and should therefore be implemented as an option to the CCA signature/verify verbs similar to the PKCS 1.5 options.The padding might be used togethe...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 3 Delivered

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