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    IBM Idea: Simplify SR-IOV VF Deconfiguration for Adapter Replacement

    IBM Idea: Simplify SR-IOV VF Deconfiguration for Adapter Replacement Title: Automated or Centralized Deconfiguration of SR-IOV Virtual Functions (VFs) Across LPARs for Adapter Maintenance Description: In environments using SR-IOV with vNICs and re...
    about 1 month ago in PowerVM 4 Submitted

    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 PowerVM 5 Under review

    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...
    21 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

    lshwres -r procpool -m <Managed System> command work as is for Power11 Systems

    The command lshwres -r procpool -m <Managed System Name> for Power11 Systems will yield and error : "The command entered is either missing a required parameter or a parameter value is invalid. The parameters that are missing or have an inval...
    2 months ago in PowerVM 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

    Enable Shared Processor Pool within PEP 2.0

    In the current implementation of PEP 2.0, the processor resources available in operation are composed of the respective Base Activations per machine and the additional credits. The limit of the usable resources corresponds to the total installed p...
    about 3 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration

    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

    Enable PowerVM Live Partition Mobility (LPM) for DB2 HA clusters using Pacemaker and SBD watchdogs on RHEL9 Power systems

    Currently, IBM PowerVM Live Partition Mobility (LPM) fails for RHEL9 DB2 HA clusters that use Pacemaker with SBD (STONITH Block Device), due to the pseries_wdt watchdog driver preventing partition suspend.This limitation directly impacts IBM DB2 H...
    about 2 months ago in PowerVM 0 Submitted

    Enable a description to be added to system reply list entries

    When you use the wrkrpyle command you see a list of Message ID's which is quite meaningless. I recently was investigating at a new site where there were a lot of reply list messages and no site documentation so I worked through the messages to det...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Not under consideration

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