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SRAD limitation on E880

PMR: [45692,999,766 / 45693,999,766] CMT# : AK1789For Power 7 & p8, there was a SRAD limit of 4 on every CEC, However, with p8 announcement, per core performance increased compared to p7&p6. In order to achieve same performance level on P8...
over 8 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

AIX: request for 64 bit version of strip command

Bloomberg is seeing failure with strip command : strip: tsbig.prestrip.tsk -- 0654-406 Internal error while reading filetables. There is not enough memory available now. request is for 64 bit enablement of the strip command so that it can work wit...
over 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Please package rsyslog gnutls for AIX to Enable TLS for RSyslogd

Please package rsyslog gnutls for AIX to Enable TLS for RSyslogd. We needed to use an alternative for syslog, given syslog has limited use. We are now finding we can't use encryption for Rsyslog because the package does not exist.
over 8 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

AIXX lsuser

Customer complains about the slow command lsuser. Problem was tested in local environment and tests show, that problemdoesn't depend on LDAP connection, but on secldapclntd (AIX LDAPdaemon) cache search. All user data are local...
over 8 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

struct top_of_stack omits elements that would line it up to the top of stack

define two new size-invariant structures that you can use to examine core files of both 32- and 64- bit programs. struct top_of_stack omits elements that would line it up to thetop of stack.
over 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

AIX : implement specific file advisories in the posix_fadvise

The requirement is to implement at least POSIX_FADV_RANDOM. This may also include AIX-specific variants to distinctly specify random read and random write separately.
over 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

enhance FWAD so that it does not run out of memory for storing CDT structures

IBM Power Systems customer Bloomberg created a system dump in which was displayed the message : "There was not enough memory to copy the CDTs, Contact IBM for further support". Analysis of this dump indicated there was not enough memory pre-alloca...
over 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Second stage of UDP receive rate improvements

Seek to attain a goal of 1 million packets per second on receive, for a single-stream of UDP multicast. The mechanism at this rate should be lossless and sustainable. Assumptions:- Full system LPAR running AIX 7.2 TL1.- POWER8: models S824 (24-way...
over 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

AIX ProbeVue : provide expansion of _curthread and _curprocess acccesors

Request to add thread state as an accesor in the __curthread and __curproc ProbeVue objects. Additional granularity required to limit results of interval probe to data only from threads in running state.
over 8 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

AIX ProbeVue : provide Vue function to convert probev_timestamp_t type to nanoseconds

ProbeVue set_date_format doesn't document a facility to timestamp with milliseconds or microseconds. The log output from certain tools must produce sub-second granularity. Providing a Vue function to convert probev_timestamp_t type to nanoseconds ...
over 8 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

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