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    Autoconfig attribute for the nvmeX devices

    For unused fcnvme devices and unused fscsi devices, we provide an "autoconfig" options which allows us to put such devices in a semi-permanent Defined state. The customer would like an autoconfig attribute on the nvmeX devices as well, such that h...
    6 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Provide 64-bit build of BIND/named on AIX to remove MAXDATA constraints

    Because of increasing memory demand we have named crashes that lead to production outages. named is shipped as a 32-bit binary at the moment which limits the amount of memory it can allocate. Please ship named as a 64-bit binary which will not rel...
    6 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Native PowerHA support for IBM FlashSystems (SVC) three-site configurations

    Currently, PowerHA supports three-site configurations with IBM DS8000 storage through HyperSwap with Global Mirror technologies, and with Geographic Mirroring using multi-target Geographic Mirroring. IBM FlashSystems introduced three-site support ...
    9 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Submitted

    RPO History and Thresholds

    With asynchronous replication sessions in PowerHA, recovery point objective (RPO) type information is currently displayed in fields like data exposure and freeze time. However, this information is not retained for historical purposes and the regul...
    9 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

    PowerVC with 2 HMC

    Our customer "Etat de Geneve" many Power systems with PowerVC and dual HMC. In powerVC, one have the possibility to connect a host with 2 HMCs, one being primary, the other being secondary. To improve performance, one can load-balance the connecti...
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Navigator for i - Trivializing SIEM Integration

    Problem Statement Network and Security Operation Centers have a high desire to utilize SIEM technologies to centralize the logging of health, service status, system status, etc... of various appliances (both hard and software) in the enterprise. A...
    9 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

    Do not HOLD job schedule entries with CFGSTRPRSC on Source lpar

    Since version 5.2 of the FSFC toolkit, the startup program is not replaced anymore with STRFSFLASH. Instead, command CFGSTRPRSC must be placed in the system's startup program. With this command. the job schedule entries are put on HOLD and afterwa...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

    Allow 5733-ICC APIs to be thread safe.

    Any one who wanted to use the Cloud APIs in a threaded environment.
    6 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 0 Submitted

    Google Pub/Sub support on IBM i OS

    We have tried to develop a solution to interact with Google Pub/Sub directly on the IBMi and have been unable to due to restrictions related to the processor on the IBMi. This has included attempts to run a Python coded solution on the IBMi direct...
    6 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 4 Submitted

    Recommend to enhance iASP HA solution and user prompting to improve user experience

    Recommend to enhance iASP solution and user prompting to improve user experience
    3 months ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Submitted

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