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DB2 manual control within Power/HA

Smart Assist menus only allow for the use of the SAP API to stop SAP and have Power/HA not interfere with the manual stop. It should be possible to also honour a manual stop of DB2 as well.
over 9 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Not under consideration

Make changes to prevent scsi reserve errors from being logged at reboot

Customer has SVC attached to Power system; if AIX LPAR is rebooted, the reboot completes before the 20 second time needed for SVC to release the rootvg scsi reserve, resulting in scsi reserve error being logged to HMC and LPAR that needs to be inv...
over 9 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

Change order of LV in a VG

Sometimes nested Filesystems are created in the wrong order.We actually have to delete filesystems to have them in the right order or edit the /etc/filesystems to have them mounted in the right order.
almost 10 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

PAM-based authentication

CMO uses keystone definitions on CMO level. PVC via local system. One would like to use the Pluggable Authentication Model (PAM defines authentication policy and authentication source, more...)
almost 10 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

IBM i Search with multiple criteria

Under this menu path, Search - IBM i, it would be very helpful to include an option to add multiple search strings. Use Case: I need to search for a program where I referenced the DDR file and also used an HSSF service program. We might use the DD...
almost 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

RPG comment *

RPG comments with * in position 7 are not being filtered view code. When you do filter view comment they show and when you do filter view code they show. When prompting on a comment line the line type is clearly identified as: Line type:Comment. U...
almost 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Is a defect

Queuing operations in PowerVC if that exceeds limit

Queuing operations like VM deployment, attaching data volume to VM etc in PowerVC if that exceeds limit. With Powervc version 1.2.2.2, it supports only 2 VM deployment concurrently. With this RFE, my request is to place all the operation requests ...
almost 10 years ago in PowerVC 1 Not under consideration

LACP in LPAR of interfaces from dual VIOS

Currently when virtualizing an LPAR behind dual VIOS the network path taken by connections only goes through one VIOS server. This means that any network resources on the other VIOS server are not available for the LPAR. If the virtual switch prov...
almost 10 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 4 Not under consideration

Cursor Progression in FIND dialog is Different

RDP 9.1.The cursor progression in the "Find/Replace" dialog has changed from previous releases. After entering a search value, the <Tab> key moves focus to the first checkbox option ("Case sensitive") rather than to the "Next" button. (So, n...
almost 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Is a defect

OpenStack commands support within PowerVC

With openstack commands like nova, cinder, glance etc. there is a possibility to retrieve data with very basic syntax on command line from running powervc version 1.2.1 , like on examples below. Outputs are formatted to clear text-based tables. no...
almost 10 years ago in PowerVC 1 Not under consideration

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