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Enhancement for mechanism to regulate Volume Manager Access for disks Provisioned across nodes.

Enhancement requested to restrict/regulate accidental provisioning of same disk (storage LUN) to multiple nodes at volume manager level(LVM) : In a customer environment multiple servers ,multiple LPAR's are managed by a SAN/NAS backed storage. It'...
over 4 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Thread usage statistics enhancements

1. Thread usage stats based on accumulated time dispatched to CPURequest new stat available, via getthrds64 and getrusage(RUSAGE_THREAD,...) accessors, to reflect the accumulated time the thread is dispatched to CPU. Breakdown by user time and sys...
over 9 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Build date restriction prevent customer from upgrading across AIX TL levels.

Customer : Kaiser Permanente Customer has over 2000 AIX servers running with AIX 7.2 TL01 SP06. When we try to upgrade them to AIX 7.2 TL03 SP02 But it failed because AIX 7.2 TL01 SP06 was released after AIX 7.2 TL03 SP02. AIX 7.2 TL01 SP06 is hav...
almost 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Permanent fix for resilency on NLQ feature on WEX

We need permanent fix on NLQ feature on WATSON explorer (IBM product)..disabling the port is not a permanent solution...we need permanent solution on this.
almost 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

change the AIX 72 sctape driver to return dk_stat sturcture so iostat can read the data and display it

iostat -ap 1 1 does not show the SAS attached tape drive System configuration: lcpu=32 drives=12 paths=28 vdisks=1 tapes=0 The ATAPE driver does not support this drive attached via SAS (or USB), so we cannot just switch drivers.
about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

SMC-R support for VIO client

To enhance AIX VIO client performance, the use of SMC-R in conjunction with vNIC and LPM would be of value.
about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Seri not supported by Secured Browser

Seri doesn't work with Secured Browser
about 5 years ago in AIX 1 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...
over 5 years ago in AIX 0 Future 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...
over 5 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

FSCSI driver changed delayed 15 sec

I understand your last update as good news - there is no big difference between AIX 6.1 with sddpcm and AIX 7.1 with sddpcm. Of course we don't support AIX 6.1 anymore and for AIX version please use AIX 7.1 or AIX 7.1 with latest TL and latest or ...
over 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

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