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PowerVC HA Seamless Failover and Back

A mechanism /support for PowerVC HA at a minimum to include a mechanism in the current active -passive HA deployment model to clean up the old/failed PowerVC. Please refer to Divya K Konoor.
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Make 'diff' command POSIX compliant with binary files

The 'diff' command is not POSIX compliant when it comes to binary files. The standard says: Diff Binary Output Format In the POSIX locale, if one or both of the files being compared are not text files, an unspecified format shall be used that cont...
almost 8 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Disable sensitive information on welcome page starting with version 8.6.0-SP1

Since update of 8.6.0 to SP1 the welcome page of the HMC displays different information from our hardware systems including information about servicable events etc.
almost 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Not under consideration

Shared Ethernet Adapter Linux effects

Based on Steven Knudson TechDoc "Ethernet on POWER: Physical, Shared, Virtual" Document ID: PRS5353 with SLES11 and my own virtual ethernet performance tests with SLES12 it is not possible to hit > 23Gb/sec. (SLES12 --> hypervisor --> SLE...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration

PowerVM language/locale selection

While running PowerVM update, there are installed ~700 filesets related to regional messages/translations. This is prolonging install time and increasing used space.
almost 4 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Planned for future release

Allow option on STRSQL to remove the F3-Exit option of "1=Save and exit session"

I consider this a save/restore issue. I did a system migration from a Power 9 to a Power 10. I had users complain that their STRSQL session statements did not migrate. I realize they are stored in some object in QRECOVERY and do not get saved. How...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

RFE to request bundling of Anti Virus into the hmc application or some other AV software, Preferably Crowdstrike AV

Adding an Antivirus engine would enhance protecting against vulnerabilities; real time monitoring, all would benefit in todays cyber attack environment
almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Under review

Enhance VARCHAR format option for EUR,JIS,ISO,USA but for LOCAL option

Today, VARCHAR supports a 2nd parameter when the first parameter is a date/time value. That 2nd parameter returns the resulting date value in the designated format. The LOCAL option returns the value in the Job's format. I would like this enhanced...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

Need latest BGP protocol support for gated

current gated is not compatible with CISCO ACI's implementationas AIX gated does not understand BGP specitified in RFC 4271
almost 4 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Allow AIX PCM to manage RootVG & DELL-EMC PowerPath to EMC LUNs

Enable AIX PCM (native multipath) to manage RootVG and DELL-EMC PowerPath to manage the Storage LUNs provisioned from DELL-EMC Storage Device
almost 6 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

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