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Configure OSA 5S outside of HMC

OSA 5S cards can only be configured from the HMC, which is traditionally a CE roll. CEs generally are not familiar with having to code OSA card parameters such as loading the SNA microcode on an OSA card. Mainframe networking support team does not...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 7 Future consideration

Request to auto synch the time across all crypto adapters with the system time.

Each IBM 4768 (and other 476x series) cryptographic coprocessors maintains its own internal clock to provide timestamped logging for PCI-HSM compliance. The clock value is set for each card individually by an operator using the TKE "Set Clock" fun...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 1 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
11 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 1 Future consideration

Stand-alone IOCP should honour the POCID-ID field of the dynamic token even if IOCDS source has been edited.

In IOCDS source generated by z/OS HCD the 'processor ID' is included as the first field in the 'TOK' parameter of the ID statement. If an IOCDS is generated by HCD calling IOCP directly or by stand-alone IOCP using un-modified IOCDS source importe...
4 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Not under consideration

Optionnaly hide LPAR performance data despite HiperDispatch

Despite that HiperDispatch requests that the LPAR option named 'performance data control' be activated, we would like to have the possibility to manage the accesses to these performance data based on the same security rules as they exist in the BC...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 3 Not under consideration

Create Health Check for Hardware Messages

We would like to have a health check for hardware messages on HMC. For example, when an RSF service call fails for some reason, it will be reported on HMC but we would like to see an exception on health check panel to. In our installation the HMCs...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

HMC Security requires pattern matching to support our DevOps model

We need to give appropriate permission to our Linux LPARs to our DevOps community, we have dozens of different use cases with their own DevOps team. Separation of duty is critical, and elevated authority (such as PoR, STP/CTN etc) must be able to ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

HMC/HMA & Radius Authentication

Update/modification to Idea ZL1S-I-400. The client is requesting HMC/HMA support/integration for Radius Authentication. This needs to address the scenario where there is no z/OS available in the environment (i.e., therefore not dependent on MFA).
8 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Planned for future release

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 ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Planned for future release

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...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 0 Future consideration

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