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option to avoid volume formatting (like in SVC)

in SVC, there is a feature, "-nofmtdisk", to avoid new volumes formatting. It would be good to enable this feature also on type "generic" PowerVC Storage Templates. Currently, SVC always formats volumes created by PowerVC. thank you very much in a...
almost 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Enhance CMPPFM command

We currently use the CMPPFM command to provide an initial "sanity check" that data is replicated via our software correctly. DB2 tables have used this without issue until we had a requirement to support BLOB column types where the CMPPFM command f...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

Utilization trend graphs for selected lpars

For the moment, you can get utilization trend graphs on a managed system level. It could be interesting to generate a graph with trend utilization for CPU and memory on selected lpars and not all of them.
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

Disable DNS from HMC CLI

Currently there is no CLI option to disable DNS and "USE DHCP DNS settings" selections in HMC, that needs to be done via HMC GUI. (see Attachment) However, it would be great to have them done also via HMC CLI
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

sh/ksh support for large files

/bin/sh is unable to handle large files. this causes problems with shell archives and other scripts that need to interface with large files where /bin/sh is used.
over 6 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

AIX Password Checking issue

Please refer the case #TS003130621. AIX 7.1 and above are having the pattern matching with regexec is not case insensitive , which is failing our compliance check and reporting the system.
almost 5 years ago in AIX 7 Delivered

Add the feature to disable migration with Novalink, as it is already possible with the HMC (migration_disabled=0)

We have this customer that needs to move its Oracle server to a powerVC environment but wants to be sure that no LPM will be done.The only proof we can provide him (if we exclude the PowerVC/HMC/errpt logs which can be deleted at will), would be t...
over 6 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 3 Delivered

VM Recovey Manager DR Release 1.5

We have discovered 3 problems up to now: 1. The DR site must have at least one session for global mirror (lssession output check)2. There can not be common LUN IDs between the source and destination LUNs3. The flashcopies for global mirror can not...
over 3 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Delivered

AIX SAN adapter driver support for new RDP ELS

Unfortunately, the AIX adapter driver still does not support the new RDP ELS - even on the newer SAN adapters.Are there any plans to implement support for the RDP ELS as this is very common by all SAN vendor.
over 6 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered

add print output to 5250 session in ACS

Add print out put to 5250 session or a button that start print out put for the open session Use Case: to download a spool file you need to Select System and then open printer output. would like to be able to press a button on the tool bar that wil...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

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