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Massive number of installs and deinstalls can corrupt ODM

Large amounts of LPP installs and deinstalls can cause a unrecoverable corruption of the ODM which leaves the AIX system unstable.
about 7 years ago in AIX 0 Delivered

Error messages reported against fcs adapters

Sep 21 08:26:24 fcs2 T FCA_ERR6 Unknown error number: 0000000C Sep 21 08:12:09 fcs0 T FCA_ERR6 Unknown error number: 0000000C
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

HA for PowerVC Control Plane

PowerVC manager is a single point of failure for providers of IaaS components to end users. While workload isn't impacted if PowerVC manager is offline, the ability to interact with the infrastructure is impacted. Please add a level of resiliency ...
about 7 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Enhance POWERVC zoning to allow different group of ports to be zoned per VM HBA port.

Today, POWERVC 1.3.3.1 is able to blacklist SVC ports and then determine which ports of SVC should be zoned to VM HBA ports. However, with the use of "Use all available WWPNs for attachment:" all VM ports connected to each fabric will be zoned to ...
about 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

Request for default logsize of lvmgs change

I request to change the product specification that the default size of lvmgs.log.It's defined in the SWservAt ODM as 204800 bytes, so please change the size as 20971520 bytes. Also, I want to confirm the range of lvmgs.log size you can design.
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Provide capability to bypass the node fencing when remove a node from the domain

Background information: As part of the protocol (with gpfs_agent as the IBM.FenceAgent) when a node leaves a domain while maintaining quorum, the node will be fenced via mmexpelnode. This causes the file system on the fenced node to be unavailable...
over 7 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

enable NetApp bootluns for live update AIX 7.2

we have generally bootluns via NPIV located on netapp filerduring live update test, our bootluns pointed an error geninstall -k -p -D 1430-095 FAILED: some disks are not supported. [sblorax1009].root:/root # lsattr -El hdisk1PCM PCM/friend/NetAppD...
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Path Failure in Closed Disk Due to Multiple Processes Acessing Adapter For Query

In our server paths are failing when one process is already opening an adapter and another process try to open the same adapter. Please refer the PMR 24147,000,834. In this case paths are marked as failed when lspv was not able to query through an...
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Restricted mode for errpt

We would like the ability to restrict the use of errpt to errpt(1) to privileged users - Ideally, we would like to prevent non-privledged users (i.e., non-root) from running errpt(1) to avoid our users from viewing the AIX error log.
over 7 years ago in AIX 0 Delivered

Add whitelist support for discovered storage port

PowerVC support for "whitelist" port management of discovered storage
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

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