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IPTRACE and TCPDUMP need to record in PCAPNG format

PCAPNG is the new format being used by wireshark to view network traffic. Encoding iptraces and tcpdumps in this format will allow better manipulation of packet trace files by customers and network support personnel at IBM and/or worldwide.
over 8 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered

AIX jfs2 scsi unmap support

jfs2 does not support scsi unmap feature
over 8 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Provide ability to specify timeout for viosvrcmd command

HMC viosvrcmd command uses a global timeout when running vios commands. The timeout is 10 minutes. However, when running backupios command via viosvrcmd the command simply times out before completing the backup. By adding a timeout option to viosv...
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

Limit KSYS to discover disks attached to KSYS managed LPARs & using local cache when nothing changed since last discovery

Name of the software vendor: IBM is the product vendor but the product needs to discover and use EMC storage array disks using Storage Enabler softwareApplication name: VMRM-DR KSYSData store(s) for the application e.g. DB2 z/OS, DB2 LUW, Open Sou...
over 4 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Delivered

CMC: Capability to schedule/push periodic mailers

- Today, client needs to login to CMC and need to manually pull usage data from CMC console.- In an actual production environment, there are different people responsible for administrator, capacity management & billing. - Access to CMC is desi...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Management Console 2 Delivered

Syntax highlighter for UIM Source

Probably silly, but I'd like to have at least a minimal syntax highlighter for UIM source. I personally use a lot of UIM and just seeing the language tags different than the rest of the text would be nice. When editing UIM source code that support...
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

PVC not savin "running" config to "startup" config after every zone change on Cisco SAN Switches to Preserve over restarts

PowerVC 1.4.4 Is out of sync on "startup" config on Cisco MDS switches with "Running" config. This may result in loosing the last saved zone changes and its configuration data upon loosing or restarting SAN switches due to various reasons. Support...
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

Ability to migrate LU from thin to thick in Shared Storage Pool

It would be useful to have a command or automated procedure to migrate an lpar's LU from thin to thick provisioning in VIOS Shared Storage Pools.
over 4 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Delivered

Please stop prompting the command when copying members.

When copying source members from one file to another, do not prompt the CPYSRCF command for every member. Use Case: When I drag one or more members from one file to another (like from object table to remote systems view), the CPYSRCF command promp...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

PowerVC support for HMC 8.4 /VIOS 2.4

Customers would like to use PowerVC with HMC 8.4 and VIOS 2.4 which are the current releases of those products
almost 9 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

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