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Command to retrieve VIOS information etc. because kdb is unreliable and dangerous

I request to create one or more commands to be able to get information of vscsi- and vfc-host AND client adapters on lpars and vios which are currently available only via kdb.kdb is slow, not reliable, dangerous and there is a "bug" in the kernel ...
over 8 years ago in AIX 11 Delivered

netstat -a show sctp statistics

Would like to be to monitor SCTP port level details the same way "netstat -a" provides socket level details of other protocols like tcp, udp.
over 4 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

visual display on HMC for server health

HMC displays on an image the health of the server, for at lest:-fans-Electric Power
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

PowerVC - managing FC port connnections from VIOS to storage

Customer engagement, Customer would like PowerVC to surface a way to select the backend storage ports used thru VIOS to connect.Currently SCG provides the option to control how ports are used to VIOS, but cannot force port selection by VIOS to the...
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Configure IBM i to return public IP on passive mode request

In passive mode request the IBM i is responding with an IP address on the system. We would like passive mode request to be configurable. For example, we would like to insert the network public address in IBM i passive mode responses. Use Case: We ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Networking 5 Delivered

Regular expression scan and replace

Please add 'replace' to the regular expression search. In particular, the ability to use back references to capturing groups is very much desired. Use Case: I had an SQL script that was several hundred lines long which I wanted to put into a CL pr...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Increasing the maximum number of bytes allowed in messages outstanding on an associated message queue

Increasing the maximum number of bytes allowed in messages outstanding on an associated message queue
over 4 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered

clcallev need to care about return codes

We had the need to add pre-events.During testing we discovered that the Pre-defined PowerHA event will be started regardless of the return code of the Primary event. This need to be changed!
over 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Delivered

Request to Change the design of powerHA Smart assit for Oracle which depends on /tmp fs to setup temp files to elsewhere

Customer wants to change the design code of powerHA smart assist for oracle which depends on /tmp fs to setup temp files to elsewhere.Customer had regular outages in recent days due to /tmp fs getting full since any (non-previleged) user/Applicati...
over 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Delivered

Allow ids on HMC's to not have a usable password.

Currently, we cannot setup an ID we must set a password to it. Recently, we have wanted to enable ID provisioning team to be able to manage ID's on the HMC's. They wish to use private / public key access via SSH exclusively, and as such we would l...
almost 9 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

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