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FOM Design Change Request

In the event of FOM related failures, current standard recovery procedures are causing longer service outages, which have a greater impact on business. For banking customers, all FC adapters are redundant by FOM, so in case of failure immediate ta...
over 4 years ago in AIX 2 Future consideration

"Change User Interface Settings? option is available only in classic GUI, can we have it in Enhanced GUI?

The web page https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/HW4M4/p8ha1/changeuserinterfacesettings.htm says he can customize the user interface settings. He would like to change the default views to this above, using Enhanced GUI with V9.
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

MMY: Slow System

1. AIX 7.1 has implemented the feature that supports thread level locale, AIX 6.1 doesn't have this feature. 2. Because of this feature, there is some performance penalty on the locale APIs like isdigit.
almost 9 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Have AIX fibre channel allow storage target ports to leave Fabric and return with new FC_ID (same WWN) for Disaster Recovery

In NetApp's SAN storage Cluster Mode Disaster Recovery solution, two distinct clusters are active at separate sites. When one cluster or site goes down, the cluster at the other site can load it's replicated configuration and data and continue to ...
almost 9 years ago in AIX 5 Not under consideration

DataStructure Subfield Access By Variable Property

Add new syntax to RPG for accessing subfields. RPG limits access to qualified data structure subfields to hard-coded names with dot notation. New syntax should be like Javascript property notation dataStruct['literal_name'] or var fld = 'userName'...
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

Consistent use of Run actions CTRL+F11

Please make the actions of CTRL+F11 (Start a Run Configuration) ALWAYS prompt for the configuration to start. Seen in RDi 9.1.1.1. Use Case: When using CTRL+F11 to initiate a Run Configuration and LPEX is open and in focus a dialog appears requiri...
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Not under consideration

NFS v4.1 support for AIX 6.1/7.1

NFS v4.1 - Support requriement for AIX 6.1/7.1
almost 9 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Making an AIX full-system partition bootable on systems with IFL enabled cores

A full-system partition created on a Power9 box that has IFL enabled cores is unbootable. Leads to a B700F121 error. On Power8 a simple chsyscfg command allowed for reducing the CPU count on a full system partition profile, to exclude the IFL enab...
over 4 years ago in Power Systems Design 2 Not under consideration

NPE when prompting CL

After installing 9.6.0.8 we get errors when prompting (F4) inside CL Programs. See attached stacktraces Use Case: Programming CL
over 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Is a defect

Make Database Development Log on follow RSE connection standards

In RSE you can save your password. If later your profile password changes RSE tells you the password its attempting to use is not the same as the one on the server. Please make the connection feature for the Database Development / Debug adhere to ...
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Not under consideration

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