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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

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

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

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

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

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

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