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Build date restriction prevent customer from upgrading across AIX TL levels.

Customer : Kaiser Permanente Customer has over 2000 AIX servers running with AIX 7.2 TL01 SP06. When we try to upgrade them to AIX 7.2 TL03 SP02 But it failed because AIX 7.2 TL01 SP06 was released after AIX 7.2 TL03 SP02. AIX 7.2 TL01 SP06 is hav...
almost 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Permanent fix for resilency on NLQ feature on WEX

We need permanent fix on NLQ feature on WATSON explorer (IBM product)..disabling the port is not a permanent solution...we need permanent solution on this.
almost 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Allow changing Record Format Name in ACS Schema Table Definition Window

Allow changing Record Format Name in ACS Schema Table Definition Window after the table has already been created. The field is only available during the new table creation. Use Case: You chose the auto-generated name, but would later like to fix t...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

SR-IOV support for fiber adapters

SR-IOV support for fiber adapters
almost 5 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration

NPIV load_balacing in LPM allgorithm

My customer uses multiple fcs adapters in a VIOS that are connected to the same FC fabric. This is done for load balancing. When creating new LPARs, these will be distributed over the fcs.But, when the LPARs are moved using LPM, the LPM algorithm ...
almost 10 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 3 Not under consideration

change the AIX 72 sctape driver to return dk_stat sturcture so iostat can read the data and display it

iostat -ap 1 1 does not show the SAS attached tape drive System configuration: lcpu=32 drives=12 paths=28 vdisks=1 tapes=0 The ATAPE driver does not support this drive attached via SAS (or USB), so we cannot just switch drivers.
almost 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Virtual partition shutdown

HMC "Operations -> shutdown" asks if you are replacing a battery.This is impossible with only virtual resources.STOP ASKING ME THIS!
about 10 years ago in PowerVC 3 Not under consideration

Double-Click or blockMarkWord select differently

Double clicking or using the action "blockMarkWord" selects differenty depending on the source specification location. Keywords defined for the d-spec areas select the quote characters where as c-spec functions do not. Use Case: Key any keyword or...
about 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

SMC-R support for VIO client

To enhance AIX VIO client performance, the use of SMC-R in conjunction with vNIC and LPM would be of value.
about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

SSP LUN Space Reclaim

When using SSP deployment, Tiers can be created as Thin provisioned thus consuming LUN space that is used in the assigned LPARs.By time data in the LUs is written and subsequently erased, causing the LUs (and their containing tiers) to inflate.The...
about 5 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Not under consideration

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