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The vfcmap command should return an error if you are overloading the physical port.

Please see pmr 61596,082,000 for complete history.From customer: I believe I've figured out the problem, I think that we had too many virtual adapters mapped to the same fiber port. I tool a closer look at all of the mappings on both VIO servers, ...
almost 10 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Not under consideration

Use multibos for VIO upgrade/recovery

We're about to start a new round of VIO upgrades and downtime and the rebuilding of a trashed VIO server is always a concern.Although we do have a two disk mirrored rootvg and therefore could unmirror rootvg and create an alternate rootvg image as...
almost 10 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Not under consideration

PowerVM - Add MTU check to LPM Verification

System: PowerVMActor: Add MTU check to LPM verification The verification phase of PowerVM serves to provide a method of determining if a LPM will be successful Description: We recently had a series of systems fail after LPM due to MTU mismatch. We...
almost 10 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 3 Not under consideration

Collapse a section in RPG source.

Like in JavaScript or HTML source editors, in RPG I would like collapse a subroutine, a subprocedure, an IF - ENDIF and so on by cliking on symbol "-". Use Case: Like SEU command X.
almost 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Future consideration

Source members and IFS files in the same RSE filter.

Source members and IFS files in the same RSE filter. Use Case: My CGI applications (in my case with Strategi by ABL) is composed by IBM i objects and IFS files (HTML, HSM, CSS, JavaScript), so I would like see all these types in the same filter.
almost 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

RPG figurative constants in outline view.

In outline view constants section I would like see also RPG figurative constants *ZERO, *BLANK, *LOVAL and so on. Use Case: In legacy code, change all generic constants in specific named constants.
almost 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

HMC lscod use TZ for command output

Service request number74532,101,616
almost 10 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

Quantify the source lines covered with time executed

Please add the total amount of time a line executed. Use Case: I would use this value to search for ways to possibly improve my program code to see if I can reduce the amount of time a line is executed.
almost 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Not under consideration

Quantify the source lines covered with numbers of time executed

Please add the number of times a line was executed. Use Case: I would use this number to search for ways to possibly improve my program code to see if I can reduce the number of times a line is executed.
almost 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Not under consideration

SLOW THROUGHPUT ON PPP CONNECTIONS

A Point-to-Point connection will experience slow throughput, when loop_back performance feature is turned ON.
almost 10 years ago in AIX 4 Not under consideration