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Deploy LPAR with a hostname different than the LPAR name

today the hostname inside the lpar is the same as the lpar name specified at deployment.It would be interesting to choose a different hostname like you can choose an ip address
over 8 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

probevue uft probe enhancement

For Probevue - According to the PMR, the current design of the uft probe requires access to shared library text and to segments marked for shared memory. Updates to this design are needed in to handle densely-packed 32-bit address space layout cas...
over 8 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

automatic session close after signout form 5250

would like the a function in client access solutions 5250 emulator to automatically close the session once the users sign off we have Single Sign ON with Keberos set up and right now when the user signs off the session, the user is returned to a s...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

Requesting to functionality to PowerHA Smart Assist for Oracle

System: Product SmartAssist for Oracle for PowerHA Oracle not started if shared memory segments occupied by oracle are not cleared before starting Description : When the Oracle Resource Group which was created using SmartAssist for Oracle comes up...
over 8 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Delivered

STRRCYBRM with omitted objects - request to be able to submit job to batch

To be able to submit a BRMS recovery job to batch with selected objects omitted. Use Case: When running a BRMS restore or recovery, Id like to be able to omit certain objects, such as log files or journal receivers, but at the same time be able to...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 2 Delivered

AIX DBX enhancements to handle vector data types

add support in AIX DBX for vector data types. See referenced PMR for additional details.
over 8 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

AIX tprof enhancement - Tick reports grouped by process name

Using this command:tprof -l -p /bb/bin/m_wsrusr.tsk -vskeujz -r tprof After collecting a trace with the following:/usr/bin/trace -adf -M -L 80000000 -T 80000000 -J tprof -j 2ff,234 -Call -r PURR -o /bb/pm/tprof.task/tprof.080814_104903/tprof.trc T...
over 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Provide a method to de-reference two dimensional array with the mix of type casting and array subscript

Initially Bloomberg reported that they were not able to access values using array subscript after explicitly casting the variable. We analyzed the problem and found that there was one level of extra de-referencing. Hence, we have removed the extra...
over 8 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

POWERHA clnodename order

The clnodename command should display nodes in the order in which they are specified when the cluster is defined rather than be based on the order of the VERBOSE_LOGGING stanza in HACMPnode.
over 8 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Delivered

Do not show block cursor that indicates uncomposed cursor position (ACS 1.1.5)

Remove block cursor that indicates un-composed cursor position Use Case: Insurance Policy Administrator System Insurance contract issuance in bilingual languages (English & Vietnamese) Scenario:-When an un-composed Vietnamese character is ente...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered