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NIM bos_inst support for multibos images

Currently, according to the multibos man page, "You can create a backup that contains both instances by first mounting the standby instance (using the -m flag), and then creating the backup. However, you can restore the backup onto a disk only by ...
over 8 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Allow for AIX automountd failover in the event of primary LDAP server loss

Our team utilizes AIX as the main operating system for our application servers. Within these servers we utilize the LDAP feature to authenticate for purposes such as sudo, ssh, automount, etc. While LDAP does support server failover, automountd as...
over 8 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

add SRIOV to System planning tool and add fiber adaptewr support to SR-IOV with Power systems

I want to submit an RFE to add SR-IOV support to:1) The IBM System Planning tool.2) Fiber adapters with Power Systems.
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

PowerVC, One inaccessible cluster (pvc-cluster) on one of three hosts caused the unavailability of all storage resources

Product version:PowerVC 1.2.3.2 Customer sees this error:NV-F991BC3 Cannot retrieve any VIOS clusters. ***K2 Operator Error***: HTTP error for GET /rest/api/uom/Cluster?group=None: 500 (Internal Server Error) [K2 Error body Message: Unexpected err...
over 8 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

System Planning Tool- support for SR-IOV w Power systems & IBM i

System Planning Tool- support for SR-IOV w Power systems & IBM i
over 8 years ago in Power Systems Design 5 Not under consideration

SR-IOV support for fiber adapters

SR-IOV support for fiber adapters
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Not under consideration

Limit number of Host entries created in PowerVC

PowerVC creates a host entry on back end storage for each PATH to storage, this can result in 32 host entries PER VM. This quickly exhausts available host entries on IBM products such as SVC or v7000
over 8 years ago in PowerVC 1 Not under consideration

Eliminate binder language

Add a keyword to the CRTSRVPGM to specify a signature. Change the UPDSRVPGM to maintain all current exports and add new exports to the bottom of the list. Possibly, have the two commands create binder language for documentation purposes. If an exp...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Not under consideration

Enable rotation of diagram flow

Allow for rotation of the diagram flow similar to what can be done in he iNav GUI SQL tool, Visual Explain. Use Case: Button to cycle through rotations or a drop down of set rotations to pick from.
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Not under consideration

Better errors notification or commands to diagnose LDAP problem in HMC.

We are beginning to use LDAP to authenticate admins who are using the HMC, but are not having success. We don't see any problems when using local authentication. I have tested our LDAP settings from a Linux host with the "ldapsearch" tool availabl...
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Not under consideration

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