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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM Power Systems products, including IBM i. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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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 ...
over 8 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...
over 8 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...
over 8 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 ...
over 8 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...
over 8 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
almost 9 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Enlarge max. number of managable Resource Groups

The customer would like to be able to manage more than 64 RGs within a single cluster .
almost 9 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Delivered

Change disk status if a LV is in stale status

At our client Robert Bosch we were faced with the situation that a write error to a disk in a mirrored VG resulted in a stale partition but did not take the disk offline. Therefore the LPAR crashed. There should be a flag to configure a disk (or V...
almost 9 years ago in AIX 5 Delivered

PowerHA: Current situation can lead to a takeover if the network adapter is not reachable by ping

PowerHA should show the correct Networkstatus without using "ping".VIO Server has to reflect the correct Status of the virtuel Network (up/down) so that PowerHA can switch to the correct running operating interface, without using the ping "mecano"...
almost 9 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 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 ...
almost 9 years ago in PowerSC 4 Delivered