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IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware

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Provide method to determine how many drawers are installed in a z16 CEC. (Or future CECs)

We use BCPii interfaces to create dashboard concerning our CEC environments. It would be nice to have all data concerning a CEC be accessible. In particular we would like to be able to tell how many drawers are in a CEC. (MAXxx type info).
11 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Future consideration

Smarter HMC

Using the z Series Hardware Management Console is a manual process to define, configure, disable, enable and IPL logical partitions. As the coupling facility control code is not shut down like an LPAR containing e.g. z/OS it could happen that the ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

Enhance information sent by SNMP trap by Case number

Hello, we have enabled SNMP trap in HMC to allow IBM Netview to collect messages and automatically create incident ticket in IPC tool to have it in sync with IBM Case ticket. In current situation IBM Case number is visible in HMC but SNMP trap pro...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware 3 Planned for future release

Dynamic HW activation support for LinuxONE III

JPMC has purchased three LinuxONE III machines to use for IDAA SSC. This will be part of their zOS IODF. They have asked if they would be able to perform dynamic activations on this machine like they could for their standalone coupling facilities.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 5 Future consideration

Add the ability to generate an AES DUKPT DATA encryption key similar to the K1DATA derived key for DES DUKPT

This would allow the user to be able to perform encryption operations on DATA that has been encrypted using AES-DUKPT derived keys.
12 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 2 Functionality already exists

HMC - add IODF description field

To add a column on the Hardware Management Console GUI display to display the IODF Description. This will allow freeform text (in a limited field size) to describe what the LPAR represents.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

JPMC RFE is needed to ask for future support to be able to delay, NOT CANCEL the scheduled code upgrade via the HMA. Today, there is no deferral option only a cancel option when approaching scheduled start time.

As there are many occasions where we need to delay the code activate for a period of time within scheduled window and would be a benefit not have to fully cancel and reschedule. Also, we are reluctant to do RCL in production is the inability to do...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

End user must be able to handle custom secureboot keys on s390x

On all securebootable platforms end user can- wipe secureboot keys- provision own secureboot keys- reset to stock secureboot keys And boot bootloader / kernel is only signed by keys that end user controls. This has many properties of securing syst...
about 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 2 Future consideration

Optimize repartition of the LPAR on the several drawers of the Z

Today the algorithm of repartition of the LPAR on the several drawers is to fill the first drawer, then the second one etcIf you use few CP and few memory, all your partitions will be started on the same drawer with a L4 cache shared with all the ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Future consideration

Provide capability to capture hardware events for Coupling Facility problem diagnosis

When customers experience adverse performance results when moving workloads to a new IBM Z hardware architecture, for a z/OS operating system, the z/OS Hardware Instrumentation Service captures hardware event data into SMF type 113 records which a...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Parallel Sysplex 0 Future consideration

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