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My ideas: AIX

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    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...
    about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

    Offer Active Memory Expansion (AME) on the Power10 processor-based scale out systems.

    We have received requests to offer Active Memory Expansion (AME) on the Power10 processor-based scale out systems.​ Others have asked about why it has been 'removed' compared to the POWER9 based scale-out servers. Partners have already requested t...
    over 3 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered

    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 4 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

    AIX - Integrate Python programming language on AIX base operating system

    Integrate Python programming language on AIX base operating system.
    almost 7 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 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

    AIX Live Kernel Update - autofs support

    AIX Live Update doesn't work on systems with mounts of the type "autofs" although these are just created by the automount daemon and do not affect any critical issue for Live Update.
    about 9 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

    Write preference pthread_rwlock_wrlock

    Db2 pureScale provides extreme availability, extreme scalability, and workload consolidations for mission critical OLTP applications that demand 7x24x365 availability. Today, Db2 pureScale is supported on AIX and Linux on POWER and Intel Linux. A ...
    over 8 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

    filesystem shrinking with multiple threads

    The current shrinkfs functionality of AIX does not scale well and only uses one thread for moving data during a shrink. Since during the work of shrinkfs the filesystem is quiesced to avoid conflicts with new I/O, this can cause applications to bl...
    over 5 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

    AIX LKU - general performance improvement during attach/detach, currently too slow.

    Improving AIX Live Kernel Update, with PowerVC, general performance would benefit many clients, but is particularly needed here due to the scale of the environment and the challenges of keeping up with code rollout schedules. Currently LKU is taki...
    over 2 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 4 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

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