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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...
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Ability to disable updates to the file access times in IFS (noatime support)

Add the noatime attribute to the mount command for UDFS objects. Use Case: When accessing hundreds or thousands of unchanging files in IFS, for example when compiling a large application, it would be useful to stop updating the access time for eac...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 5 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
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

SRIOV in shared mode: HMC debug facilities

SRIOV in shared mode: There are no HMC debug facilities like send/receive power nor wrap plug diagnostics.
almost 4 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration

Into some smitty meny, pressing Enter without making any change, the cluster doesn't advise that a sync is required

Pressing ENTER into the RG configuration menu without change any field, cluster modify anyway some info into the ACD, but it's doesn't inform the client that a synchronization is required. Client expected to receive the same information message th...
over 7 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Planned for future release

pre-check of LS fragmentation

with regards to archive PMR 26573,110,846 we would like to suggest to have load source fragmentation level checked as part of GO LICPGM/Prepare for Install/Allocate additional space for LIC (and in IBM pre-upgrade verification tool for IBM i) Use ...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 1 Not under consideration

lpex outline with many views

RDP(Version: 8.5.1)Using the outline view in the lpex editor. Use Case: If I in RDP(Version: 8.5.1) use the outline view in a secondary view of the source code in the lpex editor and click on some line in it,it alvays position in the source code i...
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Is a defect

Save and restore Object Table columns

The Object Table has an option to "Re-open to previous state" that usually remembers the CONTENT of the table and restores it the next time RDi is started. It would be really nice if it would also remember the column widths and restore those too. ...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

Customer wants 'member filter' on i project navigator

On i Series project navigator view, there are no function for filtering source members so that all members are listed.Customer has so many members and it takes time to find out the member that he wants.Remote system explorer has this function. Use...
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Enhance VPN proxy function for HMC

1) We know the HMC does not allow the user to modify the VPN properties from PMR discussion * David Dilling & Nguyen Nguyen )2) HSBC needs to somehow route VPN traffic like this below. I used the term "VPN proxy" but really it can just be a no...
almost 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration