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Determining the current version of the Qradar installation via UCMDB.

System: Qradar SIEMActor: The Technological Reliability teamDescription: The Technological Reliability team needs to detect the current version of the Qradar SIEM installation in order to correctly verify that the reliability risks are closed. Use...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / System Management 1 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.
almost 7 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.
almost 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Not under consideration

Ethernet driver support of Power8 for AIX 5.3 LPARS

We've Power8 or greater managed systems and the 10GbE ethernet or the SRIOV adapters drivers cannot be installed on AIX 5.3 client servers. If AIX 5.3 servers are allowed to run on a Power8 or greater systems via PTF U86665.bff, IBM should also gi...
over 3 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Support for VM Recovery Manager with MetroMirror (Multitarget)

On December 2020 we sold a power (E980)+storage(DS8950) solution to Banco Pichincha (the biggest bank in Ecuador) this solution has HA (with metro mirror with 2 DS8950) in the main Data Center, and DR (Global mirror) in the other DC, but we also s...
over 3 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Future 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...
almost 7 years ago in AIX 4 Not under consideration

Options for Freezing/Unfreezing of the Column Header in the SQL Results tab in RDPi

In RDPi after going to the Data Perspective and connecting to a Database open the SQL Script. From the SQL Script firing an SQL statement the results are shown in the SQL Results view. While scrolling the result outputs the Columns Heading is also...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Run commands through debugger

When using STRDBG on the green screen we can access a command line. That means that when we debug a program that was called in an interactive sesson, we are in the same job and cans see/change objects in QTEMP of the running program. We sometimes ...
over 13 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...
almost 7 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.
almost 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Not under consideration