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Evaluate Asymmetric Access State (ALUA state) on path recovery

On path recovery an AIX system does not evaluate the ALUA state of the path (which may have changed while there was no communication).
27 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

nimadm with option to migrate multiple lpars at once

In our environment we have more than 400 active lpars to migrate to AIX 7.3 soon.For the migration we only have six month time and only one day a week. So we have to migrate multiple systems simultanious. Unfortunately, there is no build-in way to...
over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

Provide mksysb image in ESS AIX Flash ISO Media

in a similar way that ESS VIOS Flash ISO Media does.
5 months ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

Reset RootVG PVID in Cloud Ready Images

Currently when Cloud Ready images are deployed, all images regardless of OS level have the same PVID for hdisk0. This can complicate actions like attaching a rootvg to another system to do an alt_disk operation. This is very common in the cloud (P...
17 days ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

RFE for PowerVM for QoS with virtual fibre channel (NPIV)

QoS with NPIV requirements: Desire a way to control the relative host and related FC adapter resources that a VM can consume compared to other VMs on a physical server. The intent is to allow VMs with critical I/O needs to get more host and FC ada...
3 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

AIX, VIOS and HMC Lifecycle Information API

Dear Team, Looks like there is no API available to fetch table data from the below VIOs and AIX pages. It would be a nice to have feature, If there is an API available similar to FLRT API. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/powervm-vios-lifecycle-i...
3 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

Need ability to sync from AIX File system cache in memory to disk when needed

When having filesystems with multiple TB of size and have a big read/update activity depending on the size of VM and his %Maxperm when shut down AIX and it comes to the umount point it might take hours before everyting is synched to disk. It shoul...
about 1 year ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Please provide possibility to add 'vlan_tag' to 'vios' management objects on NIM

As of now [ AIX 7300-02-01-2346 ], the current design of VIOS objects does not include support for VLAN tags :-( # lsnim -q define -t standalone | grep vlan-a vlan_tag=<value>-a vlan_pri=<value> # lsnim -q define -t vios | grep vlan
5 months ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

GLVM for 3 locations (sides)

Currently GLVM only support 2 sides.However, the LVM is able to manage 3 copies.Specially for IBM Cloud environments it is required to get GLVM to support 3 sides. So that the full capability of the AIX LVM can be utilized.
over 3 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

Deliver emfc_power as command in AIX for SAN connection troubleshooting

One of the first steps when working with IBM is (after snap´s) is to run the command emfc_power to verify TX/RX/ levels. This command could be useful as a standard command also including 25/10Gbs LAN power status check, as maybe event driven alert...
11 months ago in AIX 0 Under review