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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

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Allow Web Services to Change Properties of Objects Under Custom Groups

Per HMC/SE DE, Web Services does not have the granularity to be able to change the properties of objects that are under custom groups on the HMC. Regardless of where objects appear under custom groups when the members of the groups are listed unde...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Delivered

Increase the max engine limit from 256 to higher number

System: z/OSActor: Please increase the max engine limit from 256 to higher number on HMC for a lparDescription:Currently the max engine limit is set to 256 which includes sum of initial and reserved cp and ziip which is again multiplied by 2. We n...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 4 Delivered

z Systems with multiple CPC books/drawers will automatically restart using health other book(s) when shudown by book failure.

New function we require is bellow: zSystems can automatically be restarted when zSystems shutdown caused from its book troubles.When zSystems shutdown caused from book troubles , it is not automatically restarted and cannot run applications.So we ...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 2 Delivered

Provide 'authorisation via LDAP' on HMC

In the current HMC code only authentication can be done using LDAP. Authorisation is managed in HMC code. We would like to have the possibility to add authorisation so that a request to authenticate a user on LDAP also verifies if that user is all...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

Enhance LDAP Support in hmc

We want to be able to manage hmc users in specific groups and not as single users.Clarification based on the fact that:1) Users belonging to a group has the role and auhorization define for this group.2) if for example, user "xxxx" belongs to Grou...
about 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

User defined exponent in RSA key generation EKMF / CCA

The exponent for RSA key pair generation should be user selectable / definable in EKMF.Currently common values are 3 and 65537 as well as random.For specific use cases we will need 17 as an option.A more general approach would be a user definable ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 3 Delivered

Support of ECC curve 25519

The ECC curve 25519 will be needed for future projects to sign data structures.Furthermore it was selected as a future option for TLS and therefore might become in widespread use for ECDHE usages.The crypto card and all software stacks like ICSF C...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 4 Delivered

TKE allow customizable initial banner

We have an audit requirement that every component that allows any type of login, must display a customized warning banner to alert the user of legal information. The HMCs have a banner that can be customized but the TKEs do not. The audit finding ...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / TKE Workstation 5 Delivered

PPSG0113-1572 More Granularity on the CP processor assignment in a CEC

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: guceda@produban.comSubmitters Company: Produban-Santander Group PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PPSG0113-1572 More Granularity on the CP processor asignment in a CECHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 7 Delivered

Need to know what are the snmp TRAPS that zSeries will send from HCM

In order to monitor the zSeries machines my customer would like to receive the SNMP TRAP events send by the HMC in their monitoring tool and define an action for each one of them. We have not been able to locate the list of TRAP IDs and their mean...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Delivered