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fcstat and underlying APIs - time series data

It would be great if fcstat could at least give time-series output (like vmstat, iostat, etc.) for at least one interface at a time. Having a "-a" flag (or similar) to get time-series performance/capacity data for all of the HBAs in the system at ...
over 3 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Add new POLLEXCL flag for poll() function to solve thundering herd problem. Flag logic like EPOLLEXCLUSIVE for linux epoll()

We have developed multiprocessing middleware named Enduro/X, where several processes may listen for messages on several ipc queues (SystemV for example). Processes are using poll() to wait for event in some queue. Work on queues may be load balanc...
over 4 years ago in AIX 8 Delivered

hdisk name related to alt_disk_copy and bosboot

IBM should NOT permit altdiskcopy to run to disk names that are NOT supported by bosboot. Request fix via any method below:1. Update altdiskcopy to FAIL if disk name used is unsupported by bosboot.2. Update bosboot to support any disk name.3. Publ...
almost 4 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

p7zip RPM on AIX toolbox for Linux applications

we have some LPARs that need p7zip and we are currently using the RPM coming from Micheal Perzl, since we are switching all RPM to only use the ones coming from AIX toolbox for Linux application, it would be helpful to have it. Also I guess is a c...
about 5 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

AIX 7.2 Repackaging of Network Applications

AIX 7.2 Repackaging of Network Applicationsin Fine Granularity I want to remove below tcp fileset without removing idsldap and should be able to perform rte install. bos.net.tcp.clientbos.net.tcp.serverbos.net.tcp.bindbos.net.tcp.bootpbos.net.tcp....
almost 6 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered

Implement lsmpio -q volume name implementation based on lsmpio_map in AIX 7.2

AIX 7.3 TL1 implements an option to extract the volume name identification (and other fields) for lsmpio -q based on an hdisk attribute called lsmpio_map (AIX-I-273) We have some customers requesting this enhancement to be backported also in AIX 7...
almost 2 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

AIX watch_config_files script used by installp not call if updates failed

Normaly, nim installp updates for a client will call script watch_config_files script that will validate if files listed in /etc/check_config.files has been change during the updates, and if yes, will list the differences in a file /var/adm/ras/co...
about 7 years ago in AIX 0 Delivered

AIX - Integrate Python programming language on AIX base operating system

Integrate Python programming language on AIX base operating system.
over 5 years ago in AIX 5 Delivered

Live Update support for Oracle ASM using raw Logical Volumes

Oracle ASM raw disks are supported in Live Update, but Oracle ASM using raw Logical Volume are not. This will result in following errors durinng LKU:1020-154 Resource /dev/rlvasm02 is not checkpointable (pid: 6685096) (name: oracle). Query returne...
almost 6 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

fcstat and underlying APIs - show fabric IDs

My storage team flipped out when I started including fabric IDs with my requests for zoning. It's available as HBA_PORTATTRIBUTES->FabricName from HBA_GetAdapterPortAttributes. Not sure why perfstat_fcstat_t wouldn't include it or provide anoth...
over 3 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

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