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MessageTracing - not available in IWS 2.6

Dear Team, In HTTP server release V2.6 (compare to release V1.5), we did not fine the equivalent of « Message Tracing=enabled » any more. This to be able to control once the Xml Requests & responses managed by the server (sent by different Cli...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Delivered

To support SRIOV networks in deploy template

PowerVC 1.4.4.1 cannot Create Deploy Template - no network defined error due to usage of SRIOV
about 4 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

hdisk name related to alt_disk_copy and bosboot

IBM should NOT permit altdiskcopy to run to disk names that are NOT supported by bosboot. Request fix via any method below:1. Update altdiskcopy to FAIL if disk name used is unsupported by bosboot.2. Update bosboot to support any disk name.3. Publ...
over 3 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

IBM Navigator for i (Application Administration)

In application administration to remove access to several or applications you have to modify each and add the profile to the exclude list. And that is after the profile list is generated which takes a while on a system with a lot of profiles. Need...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Delivered

Enhance unmirrorvg for mirror pools

Contrary to 'mirrorvg' the 'unmirrorvg' command is not aware of Mirror Pools. Hence before removing a mirror copy of a LV the Mirror Pools need to be removed separately (with 'chlv -M ...'). It might be a good idea to have 'unmirrorvg' enhanced to...
about 7 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Allow authority on IFS share (logical)

Allow additional authority (for example *USE/*EXCLUDE) on the logical IFS share name instead of only on the underlying physical path. Use Case: Typically the IFS root is shared, however this should only be accessible for administrators while now t...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 7 Delivered

PowerVC support for lun migration to different storage pool in IBM SVC

Our Costumer would like to migrate a LUN (created and managed by PowerVC) to a new storage Pool in the SVC. The Costumer has two old storage-pools in the SVC and would like to migrate Copy0 of the LUN to the new pool-1 and Copy1 of the LUN to new ...
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Download .MBR files doesn't convert to ASCII

When using "Integrated File system" program and I download a member file from /QSYS.LIB/AWPDEV.LIB/qrpglesrc.file, the resulting file isn't in ASCII and is unreadable. If I try to view the file it crashes the entire Client Solutions program and no...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 9 Delivered

BRMS GUI SWA MSGQ

Inconsistency between GUI and Telnet interface. The BRMS greenscreen allows you to specify the name of the message queue, when running a save with the option save while active. You are allowed to enter the name of a message queue, not the library....
about 5 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 6 Delivered

Add new POLLEXCL flag for poll() function to solve thundering herd problem. Flag logic like EPOLLEXCLUSIVE for linux epoll()

We have developed multiprocessing middleware named Enduro/X, where several processes may listen for messages on several ipc queues (SystemV for example). Processes are using poll() to wait for event in some queue. Work on queues may be load balanc...
about 4 years ago in AIX 8 Delivered

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