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MMY: Slow System

1. AIX 7.1 has implemented the feature that supports thread level locale, AIX 6.1 doesn't have this feature. 2. Because of this feature, there is some performance penalty on the locale APIs like isdigit.
over 8 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Have AIX fibre channel allow storage target ports to leave Fabric and return with new FC_ID (same WWN) for Disaster Recovery

In NetApp's SAN storage Cluster Mode Disaster Recovery solution, two distinct clusters are active at separate sites. When one cluster or site goes down, the cluster at the other site can load it's replicated configuration and data and continue to ...
almost 9 years ago in AIX 5 Not under consideration

Making an AIX full-system partition bootable on systems with IFL enabled cores

A full-system partition created on a Power9 box that has IFL enabled cores is unbootable. Leads to a B700F121 error. On Power8 a simple chsyscfg command allowed for reducing the CPU count on a full system partition profile, to exclude the IFL enab...
over 4 years ago in Power Systems Design 2 Not under consideration

DataStructure Subfield Access By Variable Property

Add new syntax to RPG for accessing subfields. RPG limits access to qualified data structure subfields to hard-coded names with dot notation. New syntax should be like Javascript property notation dataStruct['literal_name'] or var fld = 'userName'...
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

Consistent use of Run actions CTRL+F11

Please make the actions of CTRL+F11 (Start a Run Configuration) ALWAYS prompt for the configuration to start. Seen in RDi 9.1.1.1. Use Case: When using CTRL+F11 to initiate a Run Configuration and LPEX is open and in focus a dialog appears requiri...
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Not under consideration

NPE when prompting CL

After installing 9.6.0.8 we get errors when prompting (F4) inside CL Programs. See attached stacktraces Use Case: Programming CL
over 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Is a defect

NFS v4.1 support for AIX 6.1/7.1

NFS v4.1 - Support requriement for AIX 6.1/7.1
almost 9 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Make Database Development Log on follow RSE connection standards

In RSE you can save your password. If later your profile password changes RSE tells you the password its attempting to use is not the same as the one on the server. Please make the connection feature for the Database Development / Debug adhere to ...
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Not under consideration

vscsi mapping - IBMi to IBMi

Possibility to create vscsi mapping between two IBM i LPAR's. Currently command "pvmctl scsi create" showing only parameters where vscsi server ( parent ) is VIOS and vscsi client ( lpar ) is IBMi. I'm asking for option which allow me to set paren...
over 4 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 1 Future consideration

Automatic conversion of ifx_loc_t (TEXT/BYTE) to/from ifx_lo_t (CLOB/BLOB)

Hello, Sorry for the IBM AIX product name but this is about IBM/HCL Informix and I can't find the product name in the list... We have legacy Informix ESQL/C code using ifx_loc_t to handle TEXT/BYTE columns. Customers want now to replace TEXT/BYTE ...
over 4 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration