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Add support for VMAX thin provision with overcommitted storage

VMAX supports thin provisioning whch allows a storage pool to be "over commited" allowing reported USAGE to be above 100% PowerVC will report storage recreate failure above 100% reported even if not used.
almost 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Rename option in NIM

When an objet is badly created in nim, it is impossible to rename it.
almost 9 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

inline log as default

By default, jfs2 are created with a loglv.loglv is bad practice and inline log should the default.
almost 9 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

jfs2 default for mklv

By default, mklv default type is jfs.It should be jfs2.
almost 9 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Enhance Probevue to be able to resolve symbols for short lived threads

ProbeVue collects only the Thread Id while collecting stack traces in the context of the probe. Later, while processing the trace messages, fetches the process Id from thread Id and tries to resolve the stacktrace symbols. In case, of short lived ...
about 9 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Enhance JFS2 defragmentation facility for files and filesystems

Enhance JFS2 defragmentation facility for files and filesystems: alter files in-place, online, to make them contiguous on the filesystem Inspired by PMR 44659,7TD and other cases from this customer.Affected applications are writing randomly to lar...
about 9 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Additional user trace hooks for AIX

There are 14 User trace hooks (HKWD_USER1 - HKWD_USERE) currently defined.Many applications are being instrumented using these hooks. As this grows, rather than having to double-book hook usage and manage overlapping trcfmt definitions, it would m...
about 9 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

HMC - to avoid stopping power instead of LPAR

System: Power HMC To avoid stopping power instead of LPAR Description: In HMC when it is inside the servers, in the zone of partitions, when give the order to stop the machine of power, I suggest include a cancel button on the screen that appears ...
about 9 years ago in Hardware Management Console 10 Delivered

Modification of tcp buffers on HMC adapters for improved performance to different AIX versions

The customer is requesting a supported procedure on how to modify the TCP buffers on the HMC in order to tweak the connection, because of the following scenario: From the 6.1 LPAR to HMC scp is running at 350KB/s From the 5.3 LPAR to HMC scp is ru...
about 9 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Delivered

iostat unable to function in large DASD environment

the iostat calls made by the AIX system take too long to return in environments with very large numbers of disks, resulting in system hangs
about 9 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

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