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Retrieve values from existing objects

Create or modify objects requires you to specify parameters (i.e. Activation Group, Form Size, Orientation, Size, Reuse Delete records and so on). These parameters may be retrieved from the existing object and prompted. A possible list of object c...
over 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

Thread usage statistics enhancements

1. Thread usage stats based on accumulated time dispatched to CPURequest new stat available, via getthrds64 and getrusage(RUSAGE_THREAD,...) accessors, to reflect the accumulated time the thread is dispatched to CPU. Breakdown by user time and sys...
over 9 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Let client choose the LPAR ID of PowerVC Deployment

The Current PowerVC Driver does not let you choose the LPAR ID to be specified.However we have seen cases in the field that the customer wants to choose the LPAR id to be used for deployment.Major reasons are because1. HMC taskroles rely on LPAR I...
over 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

RDi default cursor mode

Default to insert mode, or at least give me the option to pick insert instead of overwrite. Every time I open a source file I have to change to insert mode. Use Case: editing code
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

Build date restriction prevent customer from upgrading across AIX TL levels.

Customer : Kaiser Permanente Customer has over 2000 AIX servers running with AIX 7.2 TL01 SP06. When we try to upgrade them to AIX 7.2 TL03 SP02 But it failed because AIX 7.2 TL01 SP06 was released after AIX 7.2 TL03 SP02. AIX 7.2 TL01 SP06 is hav...
almost 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Permanent fix for resilency on NLQ feature on WEX

We need permanent fix on NLQ feature on WATSON explorer (IBM product)..disabling the port is not a permanent solution...we need permanent solution on this.
almost 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Allow changing Record Format Name in ACS Schema Table Definition Window

Allow changing Record Format Name in ACS Schema Table Definition Window after the table has already been created. The field is only available during the new table creation. Use Case: You chose the auto-generated name, but would later like to fix t...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

SR-IOV support for fiber adapters

SR-IOV support for fiber adapters
almost 5 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration

NPIV load_balacing in LPM allgorithm

My customer uses multiple fcs adapters in a VIOS that are connected to the same FC fabric. This is done for load balancing. When creating new LPARs, these will be distributed over the fcs.But, when the LPARs are moved using LPM, the LPM algorithm ...
almost 10 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 3 Not under consideration

change the AIX 72 sctape driver to return dk_stat sturcture so iostat can read the data and display it

iostat -ap 1 1 does not show the SAS attached tape drive System configuration: lcpu=32 drives=12 paths=28 vdisks=1 tapes=0 The ATAPE driver does not support this drive attached via SAS (or USB), so we cannot just switch drivers.
about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

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