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lpardbg - Add data collection for LPARS running AIX

lpardbg is a great new feature to collect snap-data from VIOS via HMC, but it would be nice to be able to collect data from LPARS with AIX as OS as well. Documentation of lpardbg: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power10?topic=commands-lpardbg
2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Enable RST PATTERN with object type

Sometimes we need to restore only the DIR structure (without *STMF object type) from a saved Ifs's folder (Cmd SAV). Using SUBTREE(*DIR) restore only the firt level of directory. Enabling the command to accept something like: RST DEV('/QSYS.LIB/QG...
3 days ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 0 Submitted

Add an environment variable to control the behavior of WRKACTJOB F14 function

I am doing a H/A switch and many tasks are not available due to restricted state. Therefore suggestions such as using Navigator or Run SQL Scripts are not applicable As part of this switch I need to check for the presense of certain prestart jobs...
9 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

lpardbg - Add data transfer to IBM over configured proxy

lpardbg is a great new feature to collect snap-data from VIOS via HMC, but it would be nice to transfer the collected data via Proxy to IBM. This is already possible for the command pedbg and the proxy from the call-home configuration is used here...
2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

There is a risk that the ethchan_config command may mistakenly change the IP address of enX interface.

Please Improve the specification of the ethchan_config command. ethchan_config should check the target device. The ethchan_config command can change the "netaddr" parameter of entX and set the address to ping of EtherChannel. However, the ethchan_...
about 2 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Provide signature files for HIPER efixes

Currently HIPER fixes have no signature files for the efix packages. Other efixes have .sig files so that those efixes can be verified after download, and installed via the "new" efix_sec AIX command. Security issue: for HIPER fixes is even more i...
about 1 month ago in AIX 1 Submitted

Allow for Synchronous Policy Based Replication (PBR) on IBM Storwize

With the recent version of IBM Storwize, metro mirror - synchronous replication - is no longer available for IBM i. This version allows for policy based replication (PBR) or policy based High-Availability (PBHA), both asynchronous. In order to get...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Storage 1 Submitted

Make Last Saved Info Object Information visible on production partition when BRMS backup occurs on Flashcopy partition

To improve Production up-time, we have adopted a Backup strategy where the IBM i production partition is flash copied to a backup partition. BRMS is used to do a full save of the backup partition to tape media. This means the SAVE object informati...
15 days ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Submitted

centralized I/O Code Repository similar to the HMC repository for system firmware is required.

For system firmware, I can download the firmware via the internet to the local HMC repository once and use it for further system updates of other systems. This way, I always have the latest firmware available. With I/O, I don’t have this option. L...
23 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

rpm exits 0 even if the scriptlets exit with error.

starting with version 4.6 rpm exits 0 even if the scriptlets (all but %pre and %preun) exit with error. IMHO this breaks legacy rpm behaviour (i.e. pre version 4.6) and leads to misunderstandings since a simple test on the rpm exit code is not rel...
23 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

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