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PowerVC SDN redundancy enhancment

When configured to use the SDN features of PowerVC the Novalink VM becomes a single point of failure for VMs running on a physical system. Provide a mechanism for redundant/resilient network services when selecting PowerVC SDN features.
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

HOST_FAILURE more accurate problem description

In the Discover output, replace the "Check available capacity and configuration issues on target hosts" message with more accurate error messages.
over 2 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Planned for future release

telefork() call for AIX

telefork() call allows to move a single running process to another server. Details about Linux realization - https://thume.ca/2020/04/18/telefork-forking-a-process-onto-a-different-computer/
over 2 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

mkviosbk - Possibility to break the mirror while backup

Hi Team, please give us the possibility to break the mirror while backing up the system - so we are able in case of DR to restore a previous mirrored system on a single disk. The way is described in this article: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/...
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

With host down, show red hexagon on the host in the left pane

Add a red hexagon next to the host in the right panel when the host is down.
over 2 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Planned for future release

Clock Card Concurrent Maintenance

Client experienced Customer Impacting Event on 9/12/17. Was told that concurrent maintenance is not an option on Power8 9119 MHE and that an outage would be required to replace clock card to ensure redundancy going forward. PE and Service Availabi...
almost 7 years ago in Power Systems Design 2 Not under consideration

support multibos under VIO

Support of multibos under VIO.
almost 7 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Not under consideration

Add Align menu to right click context menu in report design to replicate functionality that is in screen design

It would be nice to be able to align headers/fields/constants, etc. in a printer file (PRTF) to the parent like you can when designing a screen (DSPF). Please replicate the right click context menu item Align (with it's sub menu) from the screen d...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

Display AIX LPAR "Variable Capacity Weight" in 'topas -C' view

Please enhance the 'topas -C' view to display the "Variable Capacity Weight" for each AIX partition in the Cross-partition panel view. Or provide a new option, along with -C, to display this information. The "Variable Capacity Weight" can be displ...
about 7 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

Support Subsystem names and multiple Job SubType Enhanced for all API format choices for calls to QGYOLOBJ

All other selection (filter) criteria work when calling QGYOLOBJ except "Active Subsystem" and multiple "Job Type - Enhanced". The issue with Job Type may be a bug, but the Active Subsystem should not be limited to only format OLJB0300
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 3 Not under consideration