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TPROF - COLLECT VALID DATA WITHOUT TRACE '-M' FLAG

Tprof processing requires the trace '-M' flag( collect address map information and dump into trace ) in order to provide accurate information when generating a profile. The '-M' flag is "heavyweight" and can be disruptive in a live/sensitive syste...
over 9 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

TPROF - TIMESTAMP LIMITED PROFILING OF TRACE DATA

If a very large trace file is collected, the only option for tprof profiling is to process the entire trace data files. This DCR is opened to add a feature to tprof that will allow the user to limit the profiling to a specified start and end time ...
over 9 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

TPROF/GENSYMS - PROVIDE PROFILING SUPPORT FOR RELOCATED TEXT SEGMENTS

Currently tprof and gensyms do not provide information for text segments relocated using LDR_CTRL manipulations. This corresponds to processes allocated with HUGE_EXEC and cases where text code has been relocated to SEGMENT 2( as process private )...
over 9 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

TRCRPT - CONSISTENT NUMBER OF COLUMNS IN GENERATED TRACE REPORT FILE

When '-O svc=on' is used, some lines contain the system call and some others don't. Trace report files require heavy post processing and text parsing in order to interpret. The inconsistent number of columns forces the users to add workarounds to ...
over 9 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

TPROF/TRACE - GENERATE SYMBOLS with '-M' FLAG FOR ONLY THE SPECIFIED PROCESS

The '-M' flag is disruptive in a heavily used machine. If we can specify that trace only collect '-M' type information for a specific process name/PID, it would be much lighter weight. This DCR is opened to enhance '-M' to limit collections to a s...
over 9 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Provide shared segment description when using 'svmon -S'

When svmon is invoked with the -S flag( segment report ), some shared memory segments are not being given their specific descriptions. If a shared memory segment has more than one process attached, svmon reports the segment with a description of "...
over 9 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Increase performance of csum command

Starting with AIX 6.1, the performance of the csum command has dropped considerably, compared to AIX 5.3. AIX development support investigated and found that this was due to the csum command being modified to use libclic.a library functions. The a...
over 9 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

CHANGE SECLDAPCLNTD CACHE SEARCH ALGORITHM FOR PERFORMANCE

Customer is having performance issues in LDAP with large groups. We have fixed a few defects, and had 1 remaining one open, defect 939690.However attempted fixes in that defect have not been approved by devt,and devt agreed to accept a DCR to impl...
over 9 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered

Modify RG status when SAP API has been used

In a PowerHA 713 using the SAP Smart Assist, the Client does a 'manual stop' via the SAP API.After this operation, all PowerHA standard monitoring tools (clRGinfo, clstat, cldump etc..) still show the RG as ONLINE: this makes the operator monitori...
over 9 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Delivered

Do not restrict VIOS command 'lslv -pv VMLibrary'

Please note that disk placement of hd2 logical volume can be displayed but that disk placement of VMLibrary logical volume can not. $ lslv -pv hd2hd2:/usrPV COPIES IN BAND DISTRIBUTIONhdisk0 063:000:000 100% 000:000:063:000:000hdisk10 063:000:000 ...
over 9 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Delivered

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