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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

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Simplify Crypto Cipher Management in HMC

Currently HMC just offers a list (in a not auto scaling window) of available ciphers without any further details to which TLS version they might belong. It would be a great simplification if I can just select that I want to use TLS1.3 and TLS1.2 a...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Planned for future release

HMC add support for Client authentication

Please have a look at IBM SR TS011062840 we need Client Authentication support in our Manage Syslog server Option of IBM Z14 ZR1 HMC @ R51 microcode level.
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Is a defect

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

Provide capability to capture hardware events for Coupling Facility problem diagnosis

When customers experience adverse performance results when moving workloads to a new IBM Z hardware architecture, for a z/OS operating system, the z/OS Hardware Instrumentation Service captures hardware event data into SMF type 113 records which a...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Parallel Sysplex 0 Future consideration

Provide a ascertained historical view of all installed and/or activated capacity records

Why is it useful? In our installation a variety of different capacity records are used on multiple machines with frequent changes to the activated capacity levels. This makes it cumbersome to reconstruct the active capacity levels for any given po...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Functionality already exists

IBM z SDN and SD-WAN with 5G Networking and Slicing traffic

1- Adding SD-WAN to IBM Z Networking 2- Adding 5G Networking with Slicing Traffic 3- Adding NVMe over TCP/IP connectivity 4- Adding AI in Edge Computing based on Intel IPU (Infrastructure Processing Unit) and Nvidia DPU (Data Processing Unit) 5- U...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 5 Future consideration

Propagate HMC certificates to defined CPCs to allow LDAP login with secure certs.

In the conversations with IBM, the following appears to be the recommended path and we are good with this approach. We need to ensure that users (including IBM techs) can log into the Support elements using trusted AD-LDAP and our Privileged User ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Planned for future release

Enable Remote Option For HMC Application Restart

Would it be possible to have the option to restart the HMC app via remote access rather than just local? This maybe all that is required rather than the more heavy handed restart which I believe will take out the SE as well whereas the app restart...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

HMC MFA interoperate with Broadcom product

Some customers need this based on there security products
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Future consideration

Certificate Management Capability on Support Elements DRV41C

The ability to access certificate managment task on the support elements in DRV41C, This would give are clients the ability to setup AD LDAP authentication for local logins to the SE via import trusted signed certificate.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

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