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HMC FCP/NPIV Reporting Enhancement

Currently the only tools available to validate FCP/NPIV configurations are: 1) Configuration/FCP Configuration: This gives us a snapshot of the FCP/NPIV configuration – which if we need the full environment requires us to offload via FTP, which is...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Planned for future release

Include RMF field at PROCU Screen Monitor III and OMEGAMON

We are replacing our monitor by OMEGAMON and we are missing a field in RMF and OMEGAMON. We are using RMF PROCU (Processor Usage) screen and have the field Total CPU Time in mSec. We would like to suggest having more fields describing this CPU Tim...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / RMF 1 Planned for future release

Pervasive Encryption feature to enable PDSE, but exclude LOADLIBS (which cannot be encrypted).

We cannot enable PE for our PDSE libraries, as there is has been no method to exclude LOADLIBs, which become unusable when encrypted with PE. This prevents us from enabling encryptions for PDSE files that could contain confidential or restricted d...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Planned for future release

HMC WebServices API for Audit Query of User Profile Data

A WS API interface should be provided to send a WS API request to the HMC with an object target of HMC or CPC to gather the equivalent of the Audit and Log Mgmt task data returned for the User Profile Data selection (includes all subtypes of that).
about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

Storage group: Total space Alert threshold% feature

With zOS 2.2, there is a new field added to storage group: Total Space Alert Threshold% which gives us alerting on console. I liked this feature, but when tested, seems the total space is being calculated for only ENABLED volumes and ignoring QUIN...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 2 Planned for future release

AUTOIPL CHANGE for LPAR ACTIVATION

WE would like to have AUTOIPL processing incorporate a deactivate on activate of the lpar that is being REIPL. This should be and option in the DIAGXX member, like you now have for reconfigurable storage.This process is now been done by our BMCsof...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 2 Planned for future release

HMC/SE LDAP Group Replication/LDAP Server Connection Validation for HMC/SE Disabled ACSADMIN user

The LDAP Groups configuration needs to be replicated automatically from the HMC to the SE. This will allow the HMC user being used at the SE to utilize LDAP Groups without manually adding that LDAP Group config at the SE. For a single disabled ACS...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

Provide SET IGGCAT=xx to dynamically change catalog options

Allowing a SET IGGCAT=xx would allow a user to dynamically change catalog options without having to restart the catalog address space (CAS). SSMVSE14003
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Planned for future release

Need -w option on z/OS Unix grep command

Update z/OS Unix grep command with the -w option. Here's the failing command being sent from a non-Z Linux host to z/OS Unix for execution: grep -sqwF "$key" "$keyfile" Here's the definition of -w that I have seen: "-w, --word-regexp Select only t...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Planned for future release

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...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware 3 Planned for future release