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AIX LKU - general performance improvement during attach/detach, currently too slow.

Improving AIX Live Kernel Update, with PowerVC, general performance would benefit many clients, but is particularly needed here due to the scale of the environment and the challenges of keeping up with code rollout schedules. Currently LKU is taki...
over 1 year ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Add Processor Feature Code to Virtual Control Panel

Please also display the Processor Feature Code in the Virtual Control Panel within ACS. Yes, this is discoverable in the Serviceabliltiy section in the HMC, but I would like to see it added along side the MachineType, Model, Serial number informat...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Set null value in imageRef when using DynamicFlavors

When the SAN is managed by other teams, you can set a null value in imageRef when using DynamicFlavors. SAN team propose an API to create remotly disks, so use it to deploy AIX.
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 5 Delivered

Memory usage

In iDoctor a graph is available in which the Memory Usage is shown of a specific memory pool. The IBM i performance data is used to build this graph, meaning that this information is stored in the performance database. I would like to have a simil...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 3 Delivered

Process needed to port RDi licenses to IBM Cloud

We need to provide clients a way to easily move to IBM Cloud and other clouds as well in order to retain and help transform their business. If clients have acquired RDi through eConfig, then the entitlement is tied to a serial number and cannot be...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 4 Delivered

Spooled file copy PDF or TXT Selection option

Access Client Solutions Printer Output. Here we have the ability to download spooled files from IBM i. The default for drag and drop is to drop a .pdf to the desktop. You can right click for menu to display or download but you cannot select the fo...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

Nav4i JVM's

On the systems we manage JVM's plays an important part in running applications. Overall one could say that there roll is getting more and more importance.Keeping track with the command WRKJVMJOB or the DB2 for i Service "QSYS2.JVM_INFO" are alread...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Delivered

Nav4i viewing logs/msgq

We use Nav4i al the time, when viewing the system logs/message queues the time zone of the PC running the browser is taken into account. This is misleading to say the least. Use Case: When trying to analyse a problem we were running Nav4i in a PC ...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / System Management 5 Delivered

Add a column for "Volume ID" when looking at Host Volumes, Data Volumes, and Boot Volumes

It will help us in determining when reclaiming disks as AIX "hdisks" do not translate to the volume name in PowerVC. This is a tedious process when finding a volume to delete when there are hundreds of volumes provisioned. If we see a "Volume ID" ...
almost 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

improve AIX default security Enhancement with smarter LPA

The default hash function for passwords checking in AIX or VIO is the legacy crypt() function and is accepting only first 8 characters (for hashes). I'm not sure why old crypt() function is still used by default, but from security perspective sha1...
about 4 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

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