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    Support LTO9 with SAS and FC direct attach on AIX

    There are many cases which it is necessary to backup AIX to external media. We and BPs have proposed RDX or LTO before, but we are now guided to propose only LTO. There are currently some problems on proposing LTO. Now AIX only supports LTO8 via S...
    7 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

    AIX community edition for QEMU/KVM

    AIX will remain the leading UNIX operating system for mission-critical environments for many years to come. It has performance, security and ease of administration features that make it a very interesting option for new deployments complementing t...
    over 1 year ago in AIX 2 Under review

    Live Partition Mobility: Allow overrides of CPU and LPAR ID on target CEC

    For hosted environments, moving a partition from P9 to P10, for example, is often not at CPU-for-CPU but at CPW-for-CPW (e.g. 15000 CPW = 1 CPU on a 9009-22a but not on a 9105-22a). And LPAR ID is automagically assigned.This is counter-productive,...
    9 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 4 Under review

    There is a risk that the ethchan_config command may mistakenly change the IP address of enX interface.

    Please Improve the specification of the ethchan_config command. ethchan_config should check the target device. The ethchan_config command can change the "netaddr" parameter of entX and set the address to ping of EtherChannel. However, the ethchan_...
    about 1 year ago in AIX 0 Under review

    Improve samba client response time.

    Development found the I/O slowness is related with the oplocks & leases (feature-1082272) implementation. Looks like storing the data locally in VMM and reading back is causing the slowness. This needs more analysis and also might need in dept...
    3 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

    Deliver emfc_power as command in AIX for SAN connection troubleshooting

    One of the first steps when working with IBM is (after snap´s) is to run the command emfc_power to verify TX/RX/ levels. This command could be useful as a standard command also including 25/10Gbs LAN power status check, as maybe event driven alert...
    over 2 years ago in AIX 1 Under review

    BRMS ICC backup to AWS Cloud only allows US East region for storing data

    Please see PMR Case number TS016529098. We are looking to use BRMS to send backup data to an S3 bucket at AWS. By default it is directing to AWS US East region and we are told there is no option to send data to another region. We faced issues with...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 1 Under review

    Emulex Dirver Support for the Emulex SAN Manager

    Support for Congestion Management, Visibility of Transceiver Data and Inventory of all Power Emulex HBAs. Customers can do autonomous Congestions Managment who can help them mitigate Performance Problems. With the Visibility of Transceiver Data th...
    about 3 years ago in AIX 0 Under review

    NFS3 performance improvement of attribute caching

    When a NFS client caches file and directory attributes, it uses READDIRPLUS to initially populate the cache, but does not when refreshing expired entries. Performance is improved briefly for the timeout duration (based on acdirmax, acdirmin, acreg...
    4 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

    IBM Cloud CLI option for IBM i

    It would be great to have an IBM Cloud CLI ported to IBM i. This would allow to run snapshots, exports or queries to the cloud billing without living IBM i LPAR. I can also imagine some kind of orchestration between on-premise and cloud LPARs.
    11 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 0 Under review

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