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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

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Disabling touchpad of HMC Table Top KMM

FC 148 HMC Table Top KMM is equipped with touchpad. But the customer is not familiar with the operation of the touchpad, so they are planning to use a mouse instead of it. To prevent accidental operation, touchpad should be able to be disabled.
over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

DS8950F TCT Monomode Fiber connection

We need to create a cross infrastructure at a distance not supported by multimode fiber. The availability of single-mode 10Gb cards is therefore required
about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 1 Planned for future release

Display Crypto S/N in Cryptos panel

In z/OS, ICSF provides the crypto S/N. When we need to toggle the Crypto CHP from the SE, it is helpful to have the S/N, so we can correlate it to the z/OS ICSF Crypto # to ensure we have the correct Crypto. For example:D ICSF,CARDS CSFM668I 09.04...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

CBU acctivation date when turning off a CBU

when turning off a CBU with TEMPCAP the HWI_CBUACTIVE date does not seem to clear when everything is reset. If I issue a second TEMPCAP off the value does clear. IBM says to ignore that value. I think there's a bug if it clears when I issue the co...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Not under consideration

do not depricte oocod/cbu status from CPC

IBM has told me that they plan to deprecate the items that allow us to check the CBU/OOCOD status without checking the individual records. This is a really bad idea. It will greatly complicate code if we have to check all the available records. I ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Not under consideration

bcpii error enhancment on group cap value

I was trying to change a group cap and was on an LPAR that was not in the group. Instead of getting a bad data return code or something meaningful I got: REXXHostRc = 0 rc = 101 DiagArea.Diag_Index = 0 DiagArea.Diag_Key = 146 DiagArea.Diag_Actual ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Not under consideration

HMC - display timestamp of last successful logon to user

When a user logs on to an HMC, there is no indication displayed to the user of their last successful logon to the device.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

No support of TR31 Block D K1 keys with dual mode of use

ICSF does not support TR31 K1 keys of type D with mode of use B(for encrypt and decrypt). CSNBT31I service ends with cc8/rsn7e0 (incorrect rule array parameter content). This makes ICSF CCA incompatible with authorities that do not separate KEKs a...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 0 Future consideration

Long Reach Required for OSA-Express7S 25GbE and 25GbE RoCE

Support for Long Reach fiber (Single Mode) is required on z15 25GbE RoCE and OSA Express7S.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 4 Planned for future release

Improvements in zAWARE

It is important for us, zAware being able to read from syslog, because our installation is based on SYSLOG. Also we are interesting in synergies between IMS, DB2 and MQ, and zAware. And it is really important the coexistence between zAware and GDP...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 5 Not under consideration