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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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Backup and restore Performance data to different HMC and export to xcel sheet

Backup and restore Performance data to different HMC and export to Xcel sheet
almost 9 years ago in Hardware Management Console 8 Delivered

Enable Curt for 64 bit

The curt command Core dump with large symbol table. Need to enable curt to work with 64 bit. This is for my customer Bloomberg.
almost 9 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

PowerVM HMC installios Options

HMC installios command can fail due to network configuration issues. Adding an option to specify the number of attempts for the BOOTP and TFTP requests and setting the number of attempts higher than 5 (default) can increase the chances of a succes...
about 9 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Delivered

Add LED to system boot to indicate 'dump still running'

When system is on it way UP and going thru the "system dump". The LPAR status will show "Running"not "Dump in progress".That is why it can cause confusion with our data center when system is not responding from console or any remote connection yet...
about 9 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered

Add support for VMAX thin provision with overcommitted storage

VMAX supports thin provisioning whch allows a storage pool to be "over commited" allowing reported USAGE to be above 100% PowerVC will report storage recreate failure above 100% reported even if not used.
about 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Rename option in NIM

When an objet is badly created in nim, it is impossible to rename it.
about 9 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

inline log as default

By default, jfs2 are created with a loglv.loglv is bad practice and inline log should the default.
about 9 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

jfs2 default for mklv

By default, mklv default type is jfs.It should be jfs2.
about 9 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

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 ...
about 9 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...
about 9 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered