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    248 VOTE

    Machine pool minimum size setting for path switch.

    Please refer to TS005543906(CritSit(MEC)) . The system is configured with multi-path storage via SAN switch. The serious problem (5250 telnet terminals dropped) happened when the system did path switch. It was because the lack of machine pool and ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Storage 4 Not under consideration
    147 VOTE

    Concurrent Maintenance for Ethernet adapter component SFP - FRU for SFP request

    Please provide concurrent maintenance using own FRU = Field Replaceable Unit number for adapter component SFP for ethernet adapter EN0J, EL38, EN0H, EL56, CCIN for all is 2B93, vendor Emulex / Broadcom. Currently a FRU number is available for whol...
    over 5 years ago in Power Systems Design 7 Not under consideration

    Allow for Synchronous Policy Based Replication (PBR) on IBM Storwize

    With the recent version of IBM Storwize, metro mirror - synchronous replication - is no longer available for IBM i. This version allows for policy based replication (PBR) or policy based High-Availability (PBHA), both asynchronous. In order to get...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Storage 4 Not under consideration

    InfiniBand adapters for Power10 based hardware

    Customers are asking for a higher performance networking option than is currently available from the existing RoCE-capable 100 Gbps Ethernet adapters on Power10 based server models. Based on the performance seen with POWER9 based servers, they exp...
    about 3 years ago in Power Systems Design 3 Not under consideration

    Concurrent replacement for the FSP

    The FSP (Flexible Service Processor) cannot be changed in Concurrent mode. The E870C and E880C Systems have a dual FSP configuration, the failover of a FSP System does not create an outage.But the replacement of the failed FSP must be done after o...
    over 7 years ago in Power Systems Design 3 Not under consideration

    AC922 - BMC-GUI usable in HMC-GUI

    make usage of BMC-GUI possible like we know from cassical-FSP Power-machines ( ASMI )
    almost 5 years ago in Power Systems Design 0 Not under consideration

    DST identification of disk controller cache failures without IBM i present

    IBM technical support unable to diagnose failed disk controller cache failure on a brand new machine. Advised that support unable to diagnose without IBM i loaded and operating, during a risc-rick migration at the same OS level (V7.3) from POWER 7...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Storage 2 Not under consideration

    Add Internal LTO Tape drive to Next generation of Power System

    Add internal LTO Tape drive to next generation of IBM POWER Servers. Especially the P05 class machine.
    about 7 years ago in Power Systems Design 5 Not under consideration

    Support n-way DASD mirroring

    We would like to be able to mirror storage across more than two physical DASD units per logical storage unit. Use Case: Mirroring currently only supports two DASD units, so it only has protection against a single DASD device failure in the pair. W...
    about 5 years ago in IBM i / Storage 1 Not under consideration

    Flash Copy for internal disks

    Availability to run for IBM i flashCopy on internal disks (similar like on the ext storage) for backup purpose. The flash copy could be assigned to another lpar and perform backup with or without Full System Flash Copy toolkit.
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / Storage 2 Not under consideration

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