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Enhance 'Run Cycle Preview' in Workload Automation

Need new feature on 'Run Cycle Preview' tab for Workload AutomationCurrently 'Run Cycle Preview' tab shows on which days the entire job stream runs, but it does not say anything if one or more jobs from job stream are excluded through 'No Operatio...
over 3 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

To enable IPSec filter for network range in AIX servers

We want to allow one network segment alone like 10.1.23.0/24. How to do that with AIX IPSec, we know we can do it for individual IP's with IPSec.
over 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Improvements to CSS LDAP

1) Currently if we are enabling domainless=true in LDAP for CSS, it is required user to set dist_uniqid=always. Why this can't be default behaviour or atleast giving warning to make it "dist_uniqid=always". 2) Currently when we make domainless=tru...
almost 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

NIM SMIT enhancements, new UI

In AIX5.3/6.1, there was a great deal of functionality available in WebSM to manage NIM operations. Aside from it being graphical, which may appeal to some users, it was very handy in that you could select multiple targets for an operation (withou...
about 7 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Support for AgentX in AIX

Several software vendors provide SNMP monitoring facilities for their applications, implemented as sub-agents. In many cases, these utilise the AgentX protocol for communication with a master agent. Currently, this requires a third-party SNMP mast...
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

mkps and chps can create > 64GB paging spaces

The swap man page says paging devices can be a maximum of 64GB. Yet mkps and chps can create a device of any size. The customer in this referenced pmr changed his paging device from 24GB to 150GB and it did not swap on when he rebooted. He deleted...
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

AIX: add robust mutex capability to pthreads

IBM Power Systems customer Bloomberg is requesting AIX support the robust mutex capability as described in the below link: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/pthread_mutexattr_getrobust.html
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

pls increase TOP 10 metric value on db2monreports from 10 to 30 or 50

Hicould you pls increase the limit on TOP metrics from "TOP 10 " to "TOP 30 or 50" ? at present, we are missing some important queries to get captured in these reports.
over 3 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

change standard name of mail sender : username.hostname@domainname

we would like to have standard mail sender like :username.hostname@domainnameinstead of :username@hostname.domainname
almost 4 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

FOM Design Change Request

In the event of FOM related failures, current standard recovery procedures are causing longer service outages, which have a greater impact on business. For banking customers, all FC adapters are redundant by FOM, so in case of failure immediate ta...
almost 4 years ago in AIX 2 Future consideration

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