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Ability to zone Storage Controller (SVC) specific ports

A customer wants to adopt PowerVC to automate and manage more efficiently AIX VMs. However PowerVC uses all ports of SVC (Storage Controller) to zone AIX virtual FC adapters depending of storage access requirements set in SCG and FC. SVC level por...
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Check power IO enlarged capacity programmatically

We need a way to check / display the setting of the 'Enlarged I/O capacity' setting of the power server adapters. This setting is essential for the correct functionality of the ESS IO servers and its misconfiguration has performance and stability ...
over 8 years ago in PowerVM 3 Delivered

Allow user to request more than 100 rows in Run SQL Scripts by default

Example: I am running a scan against the entire IFS for largest files. It takes 17-18 minutes or so to run. I can't ask for more than 100 results until after the 17-18 minutes. If I don't sit and watch it run, it closes the results before I can re...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

Multiple/Parrallel BRMS save jobs with the same media policy would result in BRM148A

When multiple BRMS save jobs with the same media policy are run concurrently at the same time, BRMS might not be able to handle it well. At times, it will throw out false exception like BRM148A.
over 2 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 4 Delivered

BRMS logs in /tmp

The BRMS flight recorder and tape logs are currently generated in the /tmp folder of the IFS. This is a problem if the system is IPLd directly after the backup in the BRMS settings and the system startup program runs the CLRTMP process in the star...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 4 Delivered

GENERATE_SQL_OBJECTS() procedure IFS support enhancement

It would be very helpful if the generated SQL scripts could be generated as streamfile in the IFS. The scripts in the source physical file are not so easy to handle and read because our generated scripts are very extensive.At the moment we save ou...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Delivered

AIX FC-NVMe

To improve performance of AIX based systems, support for FC-NVMe would be of value.
about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

BRMS Control group execution auditing report

Our external auditors are regularly asking for success and failure reports of the execution of the backups (BRMS Control groups) for different periods (montly, quarterly, yearly)The current DSPLOGBRM command that we are using to create reports is ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 4 Delivered

Specify ACS Java JRE location

Give the option to specify the Java JRE home path. Or dynamically search for the latest/highest? package. When 2/multiple packages are in the startup location (Example: jre1.8.0_121 and jre1.8.0_191, it will use the 121 release), we'd want it to c...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Navigator for i - configure to use encrypted ports

During a recent pen test it was noted that the un-encrypted ports (8470 through 8476) were open. When we try to apply a port restriction for those ports many of the Navigator for i functions stopped working. This is due to Navigator for i using th...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Delivered