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Issue with Cron daemon in AIX 7.1

System: AIX 7.1Actor: Issue with Cron daemon Our customer experiencing an issue with Cron daemon in AIX 7.1: When CRON quit unexpectedly a /var/locks/LCK..cron remain intact with former CRON pid in it. In some rare occasions (or after reboot) anot...
over 8 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

MPI-3 support on AIX 6.1

web interface hasn't allowed me to select the correct product.It should be :Product: Parallel Environment for AIX------- Currently AIX 6.1 doesn't support the message passing layer MPI-3 functionality We would like with this RFE to get a porting o...
over 8 years ago in Parallel Environment for Power Linux / Developer Edition 3 Not under consideration

Save Remote Scratchpad Entries

Saving of the remote scratch pad entries will help navigate code more effectively . Use Case: Every time the editor restarts all the entries are lost. it would be a good feature to add an ability to save them to a list.
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Not under consideration

LDAP Connection Option

Please provide a LDAP option to close the persistent connection to the LDAP server.
over 8 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

update IO adapter microcode non-interactively

Need to change 'diag' command so that it can do non-interactively. something like this -- "diag -d fcs0 -T download -c"
over 8 years ago in AIX 4 Not under consideration

Warning added to chdev if byte 0-3 has a known value.

Request a fix / warning added to chdev if byte 0-3 has a known value. The "chdev ... pv=yes" changes byte 0-3 along with adding a PVID. Command "chdev -l hdiskX -a pv=y in addition to placing a PVID on the disk it changes byte 0-3 to C9C2D4C1 (IBM...
over 8 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Not under consideration

PowerVC deploy failure when flashcopy is running

PowerVC reports deployment failure when source svc is performing a flashcopy/Rather than report a deploy failure, recommend returning a warning to the user and delay the deploy request pending completion of flashcopy
over 8 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

Support request Parallel environmet for AIX with Power8

We would like to confirm to support Parallel environment for AIX with Power8 . Applying AIX for Power8 should be must, because high performance computing user who use old Power systems want to use new AIX platform (Power 8).
over 8 years ago in Parallel Environment for Power Linux / Runtime Edition 3 Not under consideration

Add better WPAR data to the snap tool

Please add better information gathering to the WPAR snap option -@ and -a (all). What I would suggest is adding: Collect the WPAR event log# cp /var/adm/wpars/event.log /tmp/ibmsupt/testcase Then for each WPAR -Collect the WPAR installation log# c...
over 8 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Secure file erasure

Need a way to securely erase files from the system.
over 8 years ago in AIX 5 Not under consideration

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