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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

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...
about 9 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 ...
about 9 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...
about 9 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
about 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 .
about 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...
about 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"...
about 9 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Delivered

re-include alt_disk_mksysb command in the VIOS install media

Our AIX System Administrators use the alt_disk_mksysb command to create a bootable back-up image of the VIO Server prior to doing an upgrade (via oem_setup_env). We would like IBM to reconsider its decision, and continue to include this command in...
about 9 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 3 Delivered

JFS2 support in nimadm

When you use nimadm with the option to make local caching, it uses jfs to locally create filessystems in the volume group given in the command line. would it be possible to use jfs2 isntead of JFS ? regards, Johann Klotz
about 9 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered