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    fsck enhancement

    In some cases after disk I/O error there is an entry logged in system error log with recommndation to run fcsk on one or more filesystems:B6DB68E0 0424065319 I O SYSJ2 FILE SYSTEM RECOVERY REQUIREDIt is not possible to run full fsck on a mounted f...
    over 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

    migrlpar: add option to map port_vlan_id of virtual ethernet adapters to a different ID

    When using the migrlpar HMC command to migrate an LPAR using LPM, it would be useful to have the option to map a vlan id to a different vlan id for the LPAR being migrated.
    almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Not under consideration

    Need filesystem hang and mount status monitoring in PowerHA

    We are using a lot of PowerHA product on many AIX servers. Also there are many kinds of other company's High Availability products such as Service Guard of HPE, Redhat cluster, MSCS of MS etc. In some other HA solutions, there is a function which ...
    over 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Planned for future release

    BRMS Control Group IPL

    would it be possible to add the ability to add Install PTF device . . . . .Parameter to the IPL after backup ...........Parameter to the BRMS Control group attributes \ System Backup Policy Use Case: After completing a scheduled unattended backup,...
    about 8 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 7 Not under consideration

    FUSE - File System API

    It would be appreciated if a user defines filesystem could be plugged into the IFS to enhance user defined connectivity Use Case: Use case 1 - Images in Db2 BLOB.Imagine a user defined file system that maps BLOB into data that can be open by stand...
    about 8 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Not under consideration

    Revamp Open Source installs

    Currently the installation of open source (Node.js) has two very unfortunate consequences. 1 - I have to IPL my machine. 2 - It wipes out previous version (i.e. 0.12.12 will be wiped out by 0.12.13 of Node.js) This makes it very laborious and risk...
    almost 10 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 5 Not under consideration

    Support For Pure Storage For HA + DR

    Ford has switched to Pure Storage and would like to automate DR such that during a disaster, VMRM would be able to automatically change the replication and mounts such that Ford can failover to DR automatically.
    over 3 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 2 Future consideration

    warning in advance before making chaanges that will disable profile sync

    Profile sync is a very helpful feature so it would be nice if when making changes that will disable the feature we could get a warning pop-up when pressing save saying something like "saving this config will disable profile synchronization" in the...
    over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Rename, copy/paste, delete... options directly in the outline view

    In the outline view, the rename, copy/paste, delete, etc. options on subroutines, fields, files, etc. For instance, right clic then delete on a subroutine name, delete all the code of the subroutine in LPEX. Another use is to be able to copy/paste...
    almost 15 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

    Add option to show indent for entire source member Shift-Ctrl-O

    If you position your cursor on an if/endif or other kind of loop, RDi shows arrows and lines in the left margin to indicate where the loop starts and ends. It also documents begin/end within the top loop. I would like an option to mark the entire ...
    about 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Not under consideration

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