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PVC not savin "running" config to "startup" config after every zone change on Cisco SAN Switches to Preserve over restarts

PowerVC 1.4.4 Is out of sync on "startup" config on Cisco MDS switches with "Running" config. This may result in loosing the last saved zone changes and its configuration data upon loosing or restarting SAN switches due to various reasons. Support...
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

Ability to migrate LU from thin to thick in Shared Storage Pool

It would be useful to have a command or automated procedure to migrate an lpar's LU from thin to thick provisioning in VIOS Shared Storage Pools.
over 4 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Delivered

Ability?to?Masquerade?in?HMC?sendmail?config

We need help with sendmail masquerading in our HMC servers so that the sender address is changed in all mail and alerts sent from the server.
about 9 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

Push To Client not saving customization of perspectives

Customization of perspectives (adding/removing menus, buttons, etc) is not saved/published when using the Push To Client feature. Use Case: Push-to-Client is a great feature for simplifying the roll-out of standard configuration and perspective cu...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Delivered

Scalability for lsdevinfo when there are a large number of devices in the ODM

lsdevinfo can take a long time to run >30 minutes in large configurations. This impacts the HMC in several areas. The command lsdevinfo is not used by lshwres alone but by many other functions on HMC including the UI, REST API, PowerVM, NEO... ...
about 9 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Save Defines through Verify Options with same session

Save Defines set in Verify (Options) with the current session.Now, you must reset the defines every time you access Verify (Options) even with he same session. Use Case: System: Verifying code in RPGLE sourceActor: Customer Use cases for the syste...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

MPIO support over AIX ISCSI

MPIO is not supported and does not function on ISCSI connections for AIX. This means that we cannot get redundancy for ISCSI boot drives. We have had to create a manual watchdog script to delete and recreate storage interfaces when the connectivit...
about 9 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Design Change for PowerSC

We would like to have ifixes automatically downloaded via another method other than ftp. Our environment does not allow the ftp firewall port to be opened outside of the company. We need a more secure method to download ifixes automatically using ...
about 9 years ago in PowerSC 4 Delivered

AIX Support for Active Directory Password Expiration Notification

Our customer has LDAP implemented on approximately 130 AIX LPAR's. They need the ability to be able to be prompted for a password to be changed and the ability to successfully change from AIX for their Active Directory ID's. We have been provided ...
about 9 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

More Robust UUID Generator on AIX

This is for Nationwide. They use WTX and under the covers on AIX they call the uuid_gen utility on AIX. What they noticed is that if there is a heavy volume the uniques is not there, meaning there are duplicate uuids. This causes issues with downs...
over 9 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered