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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

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Would like to prevent HMC window going full screen when logging on.

When I logon to the HMC Via web interface, the window that is opened in such a way that it becomes a full screen window. I would like a method to prevent this behavior.
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

Change GroupCap settings with HMC/SE Scheduler

We often have to change the capping values of our lpars on our CECs. DC-Limit changes I can do with HMC/SE schedulers, but when I have to change the GroupCap value I have to go online and change it. It will be very helpful for us when this also ca...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Delivered

OSA ICC Certificate Management does not allow Certificate Signing Request fields to be amended prior to generation

OSA-ICC Certificate Management function provides the ability to export a Certificate Signing Request via OSA Advanced Facilities.In its current form this CSR generation process does not allow for the fields in the CSR to amended prior to signing a...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 3 Delivered

Add support for updated EMV card personalization data format

There is a need to support a slightly different EMV DDA format as returned by the CSNDPKT service from the keywords
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 5 Delivered

add function to print the ACP list in TKE workstation

Hi there, ICSF TKE workstations user guide inhttp://publibfp.dhe.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/csf2c614.pdf page 211 with title of 'Domain Control Points page' 3rd paragraph and Figure 112 shows only 'Save to file' and 'Load from file' options. There is no op...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / TKE Workstation 4 Delivered

Audit facility for Access Control Points

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0126071532User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR0126071532Title: Audit facility for Access Control PointsSubmitted By: Stanley Jon/Markham/IBMOriginators Area: Ontario CanadaFPOC: John Petreshock/Poughkeepsie/IB...
over 10 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / TKE Workstation 4 Delivered

OSA-ICC SSL/TLS : Need support Organization Validation SSL

OSA Express5 supports DV (Domain Validation) SSL only in OSA-ICC. Client wants OV (Organization Validation) SSL that is standard SSL certificate defined in client's security guideline.
over 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 3 Delivered

zHMC Certificate expiration of 10yrs is too long

The 10 year expiration certificate does not meet JPMC requirements as defined by ATCS-840 of a two year expiration period. We explained that we normally go through a CEC upgrade every 18 months – 2 years in which we upgrade the HMCs so it never re...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

Using CPACF with HW "built-In" instructions - Linux on z

SV likes to use HW Crypto support of CPACF (see Principles of Operation) in their applications running on Linux for z Systems (LinuxONE) As of requiremts of their architecture and as of performance reasons, they want to use the CPACF instructions ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 5 Delivered

zSeries HMC or API to query the Support Element to extract the time adjustment messages from current PTS or future PTS

We are requesting the ability for the zSeries HMC to query the Support Element of the PTS (or any processor that could become the PTS) for Audit log information in an effort to be able to create a schedule operation by which the time adjustment me...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered