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    Enhance PHA Startup Policy "Online Using Node Distribution Policy"

    Today the PowerHA Starup policy "Online Using Node Distribution Policy" is hard coded to use the CPU load only.There should be the same list of options as for Resource Group Fallover policy "Fallover Using Dynamic Node Priority".
    about 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Planned for future release

    Smart assist support for NFS server

    We need smart assist support for NFS server
    about 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Not under consideration

    Expand the temporary storage metrics in the QAPMSYSTEM file to track each global bucket

    The QAPMSYSTEM file in Collection Services has information about system-wide use of temporary storage - but this is grouped into database, non-database, active jobs, and ended jobs. It would be extremely helpful to expand this temporary storage tr...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 1 Future consideration

    Provide easy to use "IBM i internal disk performance modeling tool" which supports latest technologies (SSD, NVMe)

    Simple and easy to use IBM i internal disk performance modeling tool which supports latest internal storage technologies (SSD/NVMe) is desirable to configure, propose, buy new IBM i server. IBM supplied storage modeling tools do not fulfill the re...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 2 Not under consideration

    Add PASE and Java details to Job Watcher call stack information

    Job Watcher call stacks, whether via iDoctor or PDI, do not show the very important information regarding Java and PASE call stacks. Investigation into the Job Watcher database files looks like the required information is not collected by Job Watc...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 1 Future consideration

    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

    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

    Generate performance reports based on *HSTFILE, and also have the possibility of automate report generation if possible.

    I would like to be able to generate reports based on historical data, and also be able to automate it's generation. Use Case: For instance, generate reports on the 1st of each month for the previous months, for CPU utilization, disk arm usage, dis...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 1 Future consideration

    Tie Breaker disk add site priority

    It will be useful if we would add a priority option to the tiebreaker solution.The idea is: - If the system with a lower priority will do a sleep of some seconds (need to be configurable), before it tries to get hold of the Tie-breaker. This would...
    about 8 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Future consideration

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