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Status Delivered
Workspace IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware
Categories HMC/Support Element (SE)
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 12, 2016

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Creating and Deleting Profiles on HMC/SE via BCPII

We have been using BCPII for quite a while to automate the control of the "defined capacity" in our z/OS Images. This was an important milestone for us because the defined capacity values can change very frequently based upon our clients requests. Our homegrown BCPII assembler application can easily set the new values. We simply need to provide an input file with the requested values, submit a batch job and a few seconds later the values are set.

As we have made very positive experience with BCPII we did the next step and wrote a REXX application to do things like

- creating reports (audit purposes)

- modifying activation profiles (Image, Load...etc)

- modifying other Image attributes directly, e.g. current Lpar Weights...etc.

Now we are able to do most of these things without using the HMC/SE web interface which is very, very helpful for us. It saves us a lot of time. The HMC/SE interface is okay but if you have to modify
50 profiles, it is more efficient to do it via a batch job calling the REXX interface than doing it via the HMC/SE web interface. Furthermore it is much less error prone.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 25, 2023
    Delivered with z16 GA1.5
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 17, 2022
    PER IBM SME and not enough resources dedicated IBM agrees with the intent of this requirement. However, to fulfill this requirement will require significant changest from both BCPii as well as the firmware.
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Dec 1, 2020

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware
    Product - Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware
    Component - HMC/Support Element (SE)
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS
    Component - BCP_BCPii
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 6, 2017

    IBM agrees with the intent of this requirement. However, to fulfill this requirement will require significant changest from both BCPii as well as the firmware.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 16, 2017

    IBM is investigating this request at this time.

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