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AIX

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AIX LVM lsvg command does not show if a VG is suspended

Customer experienced hang on data access due to the Volume Group had been suspended by some back up script. The "lsvg" command shows the VG "ACTIVE" when it should, somehow provide information about the suspended state. The only way to check the s...
over 9 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

cpu ready summation metric

Add metric to AIX which would allow us to see the time a particular LPAR is waiting for CPU. This would be the equivalent of "CPU ready summation" in vmware.
over 9 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

topas_nmon should record consistent TOP and UARG data for TOP report.

Current topas_nmon record the UARG data only once per process (PID) and it wont record the UARG data for same process (PID).If many processes repeat fork() & exit() in the time period, different process(command) have same PID but topas_nmon ca...
over 9 years ago in 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

This is AIX RFE3 on 12 Feb 2015

This is Required
almost 10 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

This is AIX RFE2 on 12 Feb 2015

This is Required
almost 10 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

This is AIX RFE1 on 12 Feb 2015

This is required
almost 10 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

New Test 2 RFE for AIX on 06 Feb 2015

New Test 2 RFE for AIX on 06 Feb 2015
almost 10 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

New Test 1 RFE for AIX on 06 Feb 2015

New Test 1 RFE for AIX on 06 Feb 2015
almost 10 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration