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JavaFX for AIX

We need AIX support for JavaFX. Preferable in Java8.
over 7 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

Retrieve CPU Values from WPARs

WPARs in AIX are not able to retrieve CPU info which is required by ILMT v9.2, so IBM support advised me to open this RFE to get this changed.
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Mirrored rootvg in wpar not able to stop/start after disk failure

In an LPAR, rootvg can be mirrored, a disk can fail, and the LPAR can boot from the remaining disk. One can accomplish a boot off the remaining disk by entering maintenance mode, setting the remaining disk as the boot disk, and updating the bootli...
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Synchronize Contents of rootvg and NIM Alt Disk Migration

An Alt Disk Migration is run at 6:00 am but the reboot to the Alt Disk is not scheduled until 6:00 pm. During that 12 hour window, a user changes their password. So, /etc/pass is no longer up to date on the Alt Migration disk. It would be nice to ...
over 7 years ago in AIX 0 Not under consideration

Implementation of DBX set $frame functionality

Request for a working version of the "set $frame" facility to be able to study a core dump from an alternate point in the stack. In AIX 7.1 TL3 SP3, dbx already has placeholder code for this facility. The use case presented in PMR 83008,L6Q is a p...
almost 8 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Phase 2 truss functional enhancements

AIX 7.2 TL 1 contains enhancements to the truss command to expand system calls which can be decoded. This request is to build upon that capability to improve and expand this capability : 1. Expansion of statx, socketpair, pipe.2. Next tranche of c...
almost 8 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

alt_disk_mksysb on aix

I was able to reproduce your problem in the lab system.- The problem occurs with EtherChannel configuration. - The problem doesn't occur with non-EtherChannel configuration. .To cut a long story short, it is a design limitation. The alt_disk_mksys...
almost 8 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

AIX: GDB feature to read separate .stab files generated via -bstabsplit option

GDB does not have feature to read separate .stab files generated via -bstabsplit option.This file can be given as input to dbx but GDB is not capable of understanding the file format. With gcc we have an option "-gstabs+" which produce debugging i...
almost 8 years ago in AIX 0 Not under consideration

AIX cfgmgr command should be fault tolerant

The AIX cfgmgr command is critical to 24x7 operation. It is expected and critical to design system software or operating system software to be fault tolerant. Therefore the cfgmgr command should not hang when comes across a faulty card, port, inte...
about 8 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Enable AIX Diagnostics to provide meaningful error message when adapter is failing

See PMR above and also 71727,L6Q,000. Error message received indicated only 'link error' for a hardware problem. AIX today does not have the ability to provide a more exact error to indicate a hardware problem.
about 8 years ago in AIX 0 Not under consideration

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