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In the absence of multi-target SAP HANA configuration, support in PowerHA Linux, when user manually configures the 3rd site

In the absence of multi-target SAP HANA configuration support in PowerHA Linux, when user manually configures the 3rd site (say ‘C', outside PowerHA Linux which is configured with ‘A' and ‘B'), then correct handling of the replication state betwee...
almost 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Not under consideration

Virtual partition shutdown

HMC "Operations -> shutdown" asks if you are replacing a battery.This is impossible with only virtual resources.STOP ASKING ME THIS!
almost 10 years ago in PowerVC 3 Not under consideration

Automate Post operations of Image deployment or include with Image deployment process

I tried to deploy AIX images using PowerVC UI (in the Images tab, select image and Deploy), deployed a new LPAR successfully. But we need to perform few steps once the deployment is completed and LPAR is activated. a. Change the hostname/LPAR name...
almost 10 years ago in PowerVC 2 Is a defect

support for dvd-r

would be appreciate support for dvd-r drives in backup, backupios, mksysb and so on. Today is hard use and buy dvd-ram.
almost 5 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Future consideration

Double-Click or blockMarkWord select differently

Double clicking or using the action "blockMarkWord" selects differenty depending on the source specification location. Keywords defined for the d-spec areas select the quote characters where as c-spec functions do not. Use Case: Key any keyword or...
almost 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

AIX to support the 1.3.6.1.2.1.31 MIBs.

We are Setting up AIX servers network monitoring with Riverbed vis snmp. But Network related information is not populating in dashboard. Riverbed required 1.3.6.1.2.1.31 MIBs for network information collection. We opened IBM Case TS002477994 and s...
almost 5 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

PowerVC provides insufficient details to user when returning error, Managing existing VM may fail if the VM was previously

This virtual machine is not a candidate for import because it was previously managed in PowerVC using a different project on a non-shared network. To manage the virtual machine, convert the network to a shared network
almost 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Senior System Support Engineer

now i can't decide.
almost 5 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration

Ctrl+W not functional in RPG Indentaion View

RPG Indentation view acts like a read only view of the LPEX editor which is very nice. One feature you get is the LPEX find. When I find and select (as I al most always do) to Find All, I can see a condensed view of the source (like I expect). Whe...
about 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under 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...
about 5 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

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