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Add whitelist support for discovered storage port

PowerVC support for "whitelist" port management of discovered storage
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Add option in ASMI to keep system poweroff after systemp dump

Add option in ASMI to keep system poweroff after systemp dump
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

Swagger.json contains _LENGTH fields that are not returned

The swagger.json that is generated includes _LENGTH fields that do not get returned. Use Case: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><example_getCodesResult> <response> <Codes_LENGTH>0</Codes_LENGTH> <Codes> ...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Delivered

RSCT provide a diagnostic utility to ensure correct UDP connectivity on all interfaces to all cluster members.

For RSCT - Reliable Scalable Cluster Technology, on AIX, RHEL, and other platforms where RSCT is supported. A command line diagnostic utility that confirms UDP connectivity on all interfaces to all members of the cluster. The command line utility ...
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

CoD Automation to convert utility CPU to mobile CPU

The conversion from Utility CoD CPUs to mobile CPUs should be handled automatically in one step. This should be available as a panel in HMC and also integrated in LPM, so that an LPM operation determines the needed Mobile CPU and automatically inc...
over 7 years ago in PowerVM 2 Delivered

RDI: Not all record formats specified with include are shown in outline

When specifying include for more than 1 recordformat in the F-specifications only the first record format is shown. For example the logical file MyFileL1 has the record formats MyFileR1,MyFileR2 and MyFileR3. If you have this specification:FMyFile...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Delivered

AHAFS modFile event needs to include inode changes

The AHAFS (AIX Event Infrastructure) component of AIX has the ability to track file content modifications. Please add the ability to monitor file inode modifications as well, such as file owner/group and permissions.
over 7 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

RDi search should include PF38-SRC as well as PF-SRC.

RDi search should include PF38-SRC as well as PF-SRC. Since we migrated from a System/38 to AS/400 (and now are on IBM i) many of our source files still have an object attribute of PF38-SRC. This really is no disadvantage except that doing an "IBM...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Delivered

PowerVC capability to restore previous backup to later version

PowerVC has the capability of restoring from backup. This request is that we be able to restore from a previous backup in the event that we upgrade or reinstall product.
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Support custom io group names for SVC

If the customer configured their SVC IO groups other than the default, PowerVC will fail to provision. This is due to hard-coded values in the PowerVC Cinder Driver Code.
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered