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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

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Display Crypto S/N in Cryptos panel

In z/OS, ICSF provides the crypto S/N. When we need to toggle the Crypto CHP from the SE, it is helpful to have the S/N, so we can correlate it to the z/OS ICSF Crypto # to ensure we have the correct Crypto. For example:D ICSF,CARDS CSFM668I 09.04...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

bcpii error enhancment on group cap value

I was trying to change a group cap and was on an LPAR that was not in the group. Instead of getting a bad data return code or something meaningful I got: REXXHostRc = 0 rc = 101 DiagArea.Diag_Index = 0 DiagArea.Diag_Key = 146 DiagArea.Diag_Actual ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Not under consideration

Additional subchannel sets

With the implementation of GDPS 4 Site, we have drastically depleted UCB's in our KPAR's and SDMPLEX, we are requesting at least 6 MSSes per LCSS in support of 4 Site and future UCB growth. We have worked for years on UCB reclamation to comply wit...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 5 Not under consideration

HMC LDAP Enhancement with different DirectoryEntryLocation

We use LDAP to authenticate the users to the hmc. We have 2 LDAP Servers with different Directory Entry Location. At the HCM User Management it is possible to define a Backup Host Name, but it is not possible to assing to the Backup Host Name a di...
about 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Not under consideration

PLAC0911-1434 Avoid the necessity of having to use a zOS image to load master keys

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Carles.ArisSubmitters Company: la Caixa PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PLAC0911-1434 Avoid the necessity of having to use a zOS image to load master keysHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core Technology...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / TKE Workstation 6 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 ...
about 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

System Recovery Boost - Monitoring of zIIPs

Hello IBM, We've been checking the workings of SRB on our z15s and I came across the following problem ... At shutdown of z/OS via GDPS or System Automation, STC IEASDBS is started and it sets reserved zIIPs online. So far so good. At IPL, due...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 0 Future consideration

Make OSA ICC Console Shared Certificate to use as CA signed with Pertinent infor such as Country Code, etc.

We like to have Shared Certificate as a option also like Individual Certificate to have it as CA signed. Right now, there is no way to have Shared Certificate to be CA signed to put in Country code and all the pertinent information. We need this s...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release