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PowerVC to map initiators with DS8884 HA ports across I/O enclosures to achieve high availability & load balancing

Current Situation:Customer is using PowerVC 1.3.2 to enable cloud based infrastructure. Customer is using Power8 E880 servers & DS8884 storage system which is integrated with PowerVC. While deploying new VM, PowerVC maps each initiator with a ...
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Number of elements in a compile time array (CTDATA) should be determined at compile time

It happens that I have to use compile time arrays in programs. And every time I have to define the array with a fixed number of entries and have to remember to modify it if I add or remove an element in the CTDATA part. I would like to have the po...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 6 Delivered

Allow sha1sum to hscroot

Please allow access to sha1sum command for hscroot (like sum ).A symbolic link to /usr/bin/sha1sum in /usr/hmcrbin could be trick.
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

HMC - Check network setting before checking for system LIC upgrades

when checking for Power server LIC upgrades, HMC reported "No updates available on IBM Service web site". As we upgraded a different server on an other HMC there was some confusion.After some checking we found the HMC DNS/IP routing settings were ...
almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 5 Delivered

Implement lsmpio -q volume name implementation based on lsmpio_map in AIX 7.2

AIX 7.3 TL1 implements an option to extract the volume name identification (and other fields) for lsmpio -q based on an hdisk attribute called lsmpio_map (AIX-I-273) We have some customers requesting this enhancement to be backported also in AIX 7...
over 1 year ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Add new POLLEXCL flag for poll() function to solve thundering herd problem. Flag logic like EPOLLEXCLUSIVE for linux epoll()

We have developed multiprocessing middleware named Enduro/X, where several processes may listen for messages on several ipc queues (SystemV for example). Processes are using poll() to wait for event in some queue. Work on queues may be load balanc...
about 4 years ago in AIX 8 Delivered

Let QSYS2.GENERATE_SQL also generate the system name for SQL global variable

Currently the QSYS2.GENERATE_SQL() procedure does not generate the FOR SYSTEM NAME part when it generates the source for an SQL Global Variable. When a variable is recreated based on the output of this procedure it will generate a system name, whi...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

Variable renaming

Automatic renaming of a variable, datastructure, subprocedure, and other relevant items in all of its appearances Use Case: User renames a variable using a refactoring option such as the one available for java code. The renaming marks all the vari...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Display host code page on ACS 5250 session screen

I want to display the host code page on the ACS 5250 session screen.ACS has multiple Japanese host code pages. These are used appropriately according to the purpose. Therefore, I need to know which code is set. Use Case: Windows settings
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

SQL Plan Cache Filter option for Job

The Filters option in SQL Plan Cache has no option for entering job information like jobname and jobnumber. for analyzing the SQL Plan Cache and searching for the SQL statements initiated in that job, the searching takes much time and caused extra...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 8 Delivered