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    alternative IP address for the PowerHA SystemMirror GUI communication

    The official documentation (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSPHQG_7.2/rnstandard723/rnstd723.htm) says, that this is already implemented which is wrong.When the SMUI GUI starts gathering the clusterdata it connects not over the alt...
    about 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Future consideration

    Need only minimum capabilities for PowerHA ROHA accessing HMC

    When defining ROHA we have to setup access to HMC to fulfill various task e.g. increasing/decreasing CPU Entitlement and Memory as an examplt. FOr this we need to use e.g. HSCROOT which has full access to anything on the HMC including Shutdown a P...
    almost 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Under review

    Change STRPCCMD to NOT pop up the STRPCO window

    As part of modernization, I have convert reports (spool files) to PDF documents. I then run the NETSERVER command STRPCCMD to display the PDF document. The request:Change the process to either suppress the pop up window or run it minimized. There ...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 7 Not under consideration

    Improve performance of IBM i IFS File Access for Large Files

    When accessing large, multimegabyte IFS files (beyond 16MB) there is a noticable lag in response times by some interfaces, such as HLL languages. The C read() function with buffer that is a C++ vector or dynamically allocated TS memory seems to ta...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Future consideration

    Add SSHFS support to ADDMFS

    Adding SSHFS support to ADDMFS command can help mitigate NFS performance issues, avoid using UDP ports, allows to connect using a secure connection on Internet and compress data for better performance. Use Case: We could connect to IBM Cloud from ...
    about 4 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Not under consideration

    Save timestamp captured for stream files

    I would like to understand what IFS objects are NOT backed up on a regular basis. I can tell that easily with QSYS objects because the save timestamp has always been captured at the object level. For stream files, no save timestamp exists. Not eve...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Future consideration

    IFS view in Navigator for i does not show same change date of objects as Green screen view of IFS

    Using IBM i Navigator for i (Browser Interface) the directory '/Qopensys/lib' displays a changed date of 12/09/12, but when I look at the Changed Date of the same directory using a green screen the Change Date is 3/30/20. I used the CL Command EDT...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 2 Not under consideration

    Extend PowerHA Smart Assist NFS monitor

    In a SAP environment configured with PHA Smart Assist. Do we get PHA hangs when the total cluster gets stopped. This happen due to the fact that NFS gets stopped before the SAP RGs get stopped.
    about 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Under review

    NETSERVER PRINT SHARES WILL NOT WORK WITH SMB2

    We use the IBM i system as a print server and have many NetServer print shares. The IBM i 7.3 Memo to Users (MTU) (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_ibm_i_73/rzaq9/rzaq9osNetSrvPrt.html) documents additional steps required to allo...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 4 Future consideration

    Enable an equivalent for QAUDCTL(*NOQTEMP) for IFS

    Activities such as create, delete, grant authority of files in QTEMP ale eliminated from QAUDJRN if system value QAUDCTL has the value *NOQTEMP.There is no equivalent possibility when working in the IFS.This is even emphasized as it is common in L...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 4 Not under consideration

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