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PowerHA - Enhance checks in cl_activate_fs in case of non NODE_DOWN events to prevent dual mount of file system

In step "cl_activate_fs" PowerHA has to bring the file system online in the case a NODE_DOWN event has happened. Current Behavior: The behavior of node2's RG takeover logic calling fsck is behaving as designed. This operation deactivates the mount...
over 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Future consideration

PowerVC SDI redundancy

PowerVC SDI with Open/IO does not support an equivalent of dual VIOS. Enable redundancy/dual Open/IO capability.
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Kerberos Support within PowerVC

Kerberos support within PowerVC for administrators managed by Microsoft ADS should be supported
almost 9 years ago in PowerVC 4 Future consideration

Optionally Show Hover Text in Fixed-Width Font

RPG is coded in a fixed-width font, including comments. This allows multiple lines to have data line up in the same place, including in comments. However, when those comments are shown in hover text (e.g. for prototypes) they're shown in variable-...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

Add command for displaying the hardware where a defined VM runs.

Ease of management, example when deleting a VM cli-wise it removes several steps (or the need for additional scripting to check all hw and find the lpar). Here also would be beneficial to present all VMs with the same name, to secure removal but a...
about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Future consideration

RDi don't move cursor on mouse scroll

Don't move the cursor when the code is scrolled with the mouse wheel. All the other editors I've used leave the cursor alone and easily scroll back to the original location when typing or using the arrow keys. Use Case: editing code
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

Add an option to set the desired mode for the LinkAggregation in the templates while deploying

When using the HMC System Templates there is no option to correctly setup LACP (8023ad). There is no option to set the desired mode for the LinkAggregation in the templates before or while deploying The system will default to “standard” . During d...
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

PowerVC Support for Ansible vnic network deployment

Hi The deployment of VM fails if SR-IOV only network are used in the os_server module in Ansible. Nova is logging it is unable to find a network. Please implement support for SR-IOV and vNics deployment and control.
about 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Message Queue is FULL!!! Request for CPF2460 to return a fully qualified Message Queue name.

Some of our third party applications use non-user message queues that GO CLEANUP can not clean up. After time, these message queues fill up and can no longer be extended. This will cause the application using the message queue as an event driver t...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 4 Future consideration

Add ability for Comment/Uncomment to work with SQL Scripts

When editing SQL scripts it would be super if Comment (ctrl+/) & Uncomment (cntl+\) worked as it does with RPG. Use Case: Given any block of code like: create or replace view V1asselect T1.C1 ,T1.C2 ,T2.C3from T1 left outer join T2 on T1.C1=T2...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

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