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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

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

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...
about 9 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

nmon numperm fixed to match vmstat

The nmon numperm does not match the vmstat output but it is in the libperfstat library so its an easy fix.nmon:FileSystemCache │(numperm) 6.8% # vmstat -v|grep numperm 7.6 numperm percentage
about 9 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

PowerVC support for lun migration to different IO group

Customer would like to be able to migrate a LUN from one IO group to another, PowerVC supports multiple IO groups but not migrating between then
about 9 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Adding numbers of IP Adresses for a pool not only a range

In Powervc for a VLAN Network i can add a range of Ip addressesbut not always in a segment all adresses available are consecutive so i need a chance to add a number of IP Adresses e.g. seperated by comma or whatever or to upload from a text file e...
about 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Make AIX shared lib cache transparent to the user/application

When replacing a shared lib on the filesystem you receive a "Text file busy" error even though no active process is using the shared library. AIX documentation states: Note: If the module being loaded has read-other permission, the module is loade...
about 9 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Enable RAS for sysalloc when kernel_psize==16M

In the current design , sysalloc RAS is disabled when kernel_psize==16M. So ,when kernel_psize == 16M and kernel_heap_psize == 4K , kdb's xm -u does not show any records for the current allocations.The problem here is that allocs from non 16M heap...
over 9 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

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