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Prevent reboot of frame while any LPAR is active

It is good to "Prevent the frame power off if any LPAR is active/running".As of now we are receiving an alert but still we need to get alternate prevention.
about 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

vHMC Hard Drive Allocation

would like the vHMC 8.8.7 sp1 to install with a much smaller HDD. 500GB default is too much for our environment.
about 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Not under consideration

AIX DVD BOS Installation and support to NetApp MPIO

Trying to migrate my NIM server from AIX 7.1 to 7.2. When I boot from the AIX 7.2 DVD Iso image, using the Virtual Library from the Vios, it goes well up until I start the migration itself... At the very first step the migration fails with the fol...
about 6 years ago in AIX 4 Not under consideration

VisualAge for RPG

Allow users to import VisualAge for RPG projects & build .Windows applicaitons - or Java applications within RDi Use Case: Lots of home-grown software written on VisualAge for RPG. Because they were designed from the ground up (and not convert...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

No parameternames shown after Ctl+Space on serviceprogram

Since we use serviceprograms a lot in our company, we need to know the parameter names instead of the parameter types when pressing Ctrl+Space in the sourcecode.char(3) int(5) int(5) char(3) is not meaningful to the developersWe know that the name...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

secldapclntd 64bit

The AIX LDAP client secldapclntd is 32bit software, To run secldapclntd we need also install the 32bit part of the LDAP client idsldap.clt32bit64.rte and idsldap.clt_max_crypto32bit64.rte And if we use SSL then we install the dependency to the 32B...
about 6 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Virtual HMC Mirroring capability

The Virtual Power HMC does not have the capability to mirror the internal drives, a feature that has been available in current x86 HMC appliances.
about 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Not under consideration

AIX instfix ran from batch leaves empty dirs in /tmp

I use below command instfix -i | egrep "ML|SP"| grep "Not all filesets for" | awk '{system ("instfix -ciqk "$5)}' | grep ":-:" to find if all filesets in AIX are correct. After some time, in /tmp dir there is a lot of empty dirs with name instfixX...
about 6 years ago in AIX 1 Is a defect

Please expand content assist for SQLRPGLE programs

I use content assist to help develop SQLRPGLE programs with embedded SQL. I think it would helpful if the content assist was expanded. Most notably the SQL FETCH statement only presents a generic option. It would be helpful if there was a way to s...
over 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Need multiple IPSec tunnels in AIX to the same endpoint.

AIX has a limitation in IPsec configurability. It does not support multiple IPsec tunnels, each using a unique IKE authentication pre-shared key, to the same remote endpoint address. This RFE is to AIX to provide this capabilities.
about 6 years ago in AIX 4 Future consideration

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