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Support for SSD disks in filemon

filemon does not report ssd disks. When filemon ran with below options it is not listing the details of ssd disks filemon -o /workfs/fmon.$(date|sed 's/ /_/g') -T 268435184 -O detail...
over 10 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

PowerHA doesn't currently support integration with any current IBM monitoring solutions

PowerHA currently has no integration filesets to with with standard monitoring software IBM provides, natively Tivoli NetCool. This makes it cumbersome and complicated to have cluster events monitored from a central authority that dispatches help ...
over 10 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Not under consideration

Need Working mt Comand That Actually Gives Tapes Status Information

Like EVERY other UNIX/LINUX out there, we need a working 'mt' command that actually returns the status of the tape drive. 'mt status' should tell us that the tape drive is: 1) Loaded or Unloaded 2) Write protected or Not 3) Tape position (at begin...
over 10 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Keep cursor in prefix area

Modify operation of the editor so that after a prefix (line number) area command (e.g. "cc/cc", "a", "dd/dd") is executed, the cursor remains in the prefix area. Currently (8.5.1),it appears that the cursor remains in the prefix area when "half" a...
over 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

restwpar cloning

When cloning a wpar, there should be a flag to allow you to disable the networking and the devid from being detected during the restwpar / mkwpar process. Currently, you have to manually edit the wpec.spec file and delete that networking / devid i...
over 10 years ago in AIX 4 Not under consideration

fix provevue so that it shuts down when no sessions are active

Fix Probevue to have it shutdown when not active session. Please see PMR for details
over 10 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Improve performance of installp in general and RESTBYNAME specifically

Improve performance of installp in general and RESTBYNAME specifically. My customer, Bloomberg, experience very long times running installp to install the chef package
over 10 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Secure File Delete for AIX

In order to be PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliant, a deletion of a file has to "securely delete" the data. What this means is before the file inode and data blocks are released and given back to the system to re-use, they must be overwritten on...
over 10 years ago in AIX 7 Not under consideration

Restrict users with 'deployer' privileges to certain host groups

Users with 'deployer' privileges can currently deploy to any server within the PowerVC environment. Restricting users to only certain host groups would allow greater flexibility whilst protecting other hosts.
over 10 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

In RDI ability to exit program debug immediately as in F3 using green screen STRDBG

Using green screen STRDBG, while stepping through any program using F10, if the developer presses F3 to exit, the program stops running immediately. This is a bit of a safeguard to many developers where they know they can end a job midstream. This...
over 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Future consideration

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