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Restore Option needed - addition, disable experation

When restoring a PowerVC backup, we expired 100's of VM's at the same time. There needs to be a switch to disable expiration on a restore.
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Non-root volume groups not automatically imported and varied on after Versioned WPAR restore

After a successfull restore of Versioned AIX 5.3 WPAR, I have noticed that any non-rootvg volume groups i.e. data volume groups are not automatically imported and varied on. In our testing, we are restoring the vWPAR back onto the same Global LPAR...
over 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

HMC Power Down frame option

When powering down the frame from the HMC, there is an insufficient and often confusing process that can lead to serious issues. When power down is selected, a pop-pup is displayed that gives a user an option to confirm or cancel the process. In a...
about 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Not under consideration

Mechanism to allow drivers in IO path to communicate with each other.

We need a mechanism to allow drivers in IO path to communicate with each other.A possible approach could be to allow third party vendors to set/use any unused bit in b_flags in buf/bufx structure to achieve the same. Basically, In the IO path AIX ...
over 6 years ago in AIX 2 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...
over 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

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.
over 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.
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 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...
over 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

SPSS Modeler v.18.2.1 Compatibility with Teradata v.17

SPSS Modeler 18.2.1 support for Teradata v17. At the moment SPSS Modeler 18.2.1 compatibility matrix states that Teradata V17 is not supported. Use Case: Use Case : SPSS Modeler team can relax ( be assured that all is working) when Teradata gets u...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Documentation 2 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...
over 6 years ago in AIX 4 Not under consideration

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