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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

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Add bulk processing to HWIQUERY for activation/load profiles in zEC12 and up

Expand the BCPii "bulk processing" improvements for HWIQUERY in z/OS 2.1 to retrieving the activation and load profile attributes (HWI_IMAGE_ACTPROF and HWI_LOAD_ACTPROF). This is in conjunction with the BCPii RFE#83196, as I understand the limita...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Delivered

IPv6 support for OSA ICC

OSA ICC (Integrated Console Controller) should support IPv6.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 3 Delivered

TKE SSL support

the new TKE shipped with the z13 processors included a change to the way that the TN3270 client interacts with a TN3270 server that requires a protected (encrypted) connection via TLS. Typically a site will share a common server certificate across...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 4 Delivered

Hiperdispatch: provide parmfile for manual intervention

Please provide an PARMLIB Member (maybe DIAGxx) for Manual adjustment of HIPERDISPATCH Settings. We are a rel. small z/OS shop. We have an 705 with more that 10 running LPARs. 2 PROD LPARs are rel. big...the rest rel. small from point of share. Th...
about 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 4 Delivered

SE backup via FTP to HMC

Currently backup from SE runs via FTP to an customer server. But our SE are in a secure network environment and no FTP to other network is available. In this secure network is the HMC (a PC tower from IBM) too.We need a FTP funtion on this HMC to ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 5 Delivered

Add CALL-HOME function when "Report Loss of Communication" detected as HMC options of z Systems.

In unattended service sites, if the HMC-SE network is disconnected for some failures, no one can find it because there is only H/W messages of "Report Loss of Communication" on HMCs, and there is no option for call-home of it. Therefore, SE failur...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 4 Delivered

PFI-IT0311-1384 HMC and TKE Workstation as a 19 rack server

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Bernd.Daubner@izb.deSubmitters Company: Finanz Informatik Technical Services (FI-TS) PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PFI-IT0311-1384 HMC and TKE Workstation as a 19 rack serverHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Cat...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / TKE Workstation 5 Delivered

PFI0413-1597 BCPii performance and serialization enhancements

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: tdoerkesSubmitters Company: Finanz Informatik PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PFI0413-1597 BCPii performance and serialization enhancementsHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent Status:...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

PCIT0610-1350 HMC support for national characters in the loadparm

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: william.pape@citigroup.comSubmitters Company: Citigroup PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PCIT0610-1350 HMC support for national characters in the loadparmHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyC...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 5 Delivered

Secure logging

Logging of security significant events in the HSM (keys, access control info, admin commands)Logged info must be protected so it can not be modified or deleted by unauthorized peopleLog in HSM, OS, etc
about 10 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 5 Delivered

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