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    Journal receive encryption

    After a discution with a Db2 expert about RCAC implemenation, it appears that after an update of a journalized table, the corresponding journal entry can be fully displayed with a simple DSPJRN command. Is it possible to add a new option at the cr...
    17 days ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 0 Submitted

    Add Column of Configured Maximum number of jobs on Active Prestart Jobs

    In the latest TRs, V7R4 TR11 in our case have been included some additional columns that also included the Peak in Use! It would be very usefull to also have an additional column with the configured Maximum number of jobs per PJ, so we could easil...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Functionality already exists

    implement an ON/OFF function to force syncvg after takeover after a node failure occurs.

    Implement an ON/OFF function to force syncvg after takeover after a node failure occurs. When a node failure occurs on the service machine and the shared disk created by AIX LVM mirror is taken over to the standby machine, syncvg is forced using t...
    almost 2 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Submitted

    Recommend to enhance iASP HA solution and user prompting to improve user experience

    Recommend to enhance iASP solution and user prompting to improve user experience
    25 days ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Submitted

    Add a "Last Active" Timestamp or number of elapsed seconds since the last activity for a Job to WRKACTJOB and QUSRJOBI API

    While we know that interactive jobs have an inactivity timer on them, the Work Active Jobs (WRKACTJOB) and the corresponding API do not provide us with information on how long a user hasn't had an interaction with the 5250 session or a batch job h...
    3 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Not under consideration

    Add feature to be able to add mount options to NFS cross mounts

    For some our NFS cross mounted filesystems we need to be able to add additional NFS mount options. This is a requirement triggered by SAP. It also should be added to the SAP Smart Assist tools.
    almost 3 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Under review

    Change the performance adjuster algorithm

    The performance adjuster algorithm looks only if the pool is paging but doesn't care if it has already free memory. This causes sometimes that a pool start stealing a lot of memory without using it. The algorithm should look at the unallocated mem...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 4 Future consideration

    Add options to use different shared Filesystems for SAP Smart Assist

    When using PHA SAP Smart Assist it is required to use NFS 4.It would be very helpful to have an option to use NFS 3 or ISS (GPFS) instead.
    over 2 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Submitted

    NVMeOF support in PowerHA

    Fibre Channel (FC)-Nonvolatile Memory express (NVMe) over Fabrics (NVMeoF) protocol in the PowerVM N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) stack (NVMeoF) offers a significant boost in performance and efficiency. AIX on Power Systems, supports NVMe over Fi...
    about 1 year ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Submitted

    add feature to predict if "verification + synchronisation" will bring resource group(s) down of not

    When you make a change to the powerHA configuration on one node you have to run "Verify and Synchronize Cluster Configuration" to propagate the change to the other nodes. When you do that the smit panels will give you the following warning: "Depen...
    almost 2 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Future consideration

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