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AIX support of RPD probe on Brocade switches

Connected to Brocade G620 16G fibre switch According to IBM: We are getting the following: "The FCA_ERR6 with sense data of 0x68A indicated that we are receiving unrecognized ELS from the fabric with N_Port IDs of FFFC36 and FFFC40. This message i...
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

PowerVM VIOS Release the PCM Energy and SSP stats documentation

IBM appears to have forgotten to release the documentation for this announced and released in December 2016 feature REST API for temperature, electrical power and Shared Storage Pools.This includes the units for ALL the statistics, the URLs, the h...
over 7 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Delivered

Improve PowerHA 7.1.3.5 SmartAssist Oracle DB scripts

As per current design (PowerHA 7.1.3.5 in my case) - if either Oracle listener or Oracle DB goes down - we will invoke the restart script to restart both listener and DB, which is wrong. If a listener goes down, only the listener should be restart...
over 7 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Delivered

Add *LSTSAVSYS option to PERIOD Beginning date for STRRCYBRM

Current options on STRRCYBRM prevent us from automating printing of recovery reports including using a hub system in Enterprise Services. To get usable reports for a recovery we have to keep track of the last SAVSYS and manually enter that date on...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 2 Delivered

RFE Notifications for IBM AIX

How to receive RFE notifications about IBM AIX?
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

LPM Activity Logging

For the new Oracle DB Licensing Model, we need a possibility to log every LPM (Live Partion Moving) Transaction within a Power Server. This log should be exportable for a permanently archive in an audit-proof manner.
almost 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

Do not allow end-user to control "trusted" signers

When connecting the first time to a new system with IBM i Access Solutions in SSL mode, the client allows the end user to accept the root/intermediate certificate which introduces a secrurity risk (MITM attack). The client should only use pre-load...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

HMC issues after upgrade to V7.7.9.0 SP3

We have upgraded HMC from HMC V7.7.9.0 SP1 to HMC V7.7.9.0 SP3.After HMC update , when trying to run any "viosvrcmd" commands its not working and giving error as below. The same commands were working before the upgrade when we were in lower SP lev...
almost 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

Support for BNA ELS frames

we get daily error reports on every port of FC Adapters 5735 caused by SAN diagnostic packets LABEL: FCA_ERR6IDENTIFIER: ECCE4018 VIOS Level is 2.2.4.10Please add Support for BNA ELS Frames in AIX and VIOS
almost 8 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Delivered

PATTERN support for IFS save with BRMS

Please allow us to exclude IFS files and folders using PATTERN. We often run into excluding individual cache/log/tmp files and folders. Those lists need to be maintained which is basically a waste of time. Use Case: See above.
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Delivered

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