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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 2, 2017

Clock Card Concurrent Maintenance

Client experienced Customer Impacting Event on 9/12/17. Was told that concurrent maintenance is not an option on Power8 9119 MHE and that an outage would be required to replace clock card to ensure redundancy going forward. PE and Service Availability Manager explained that this functionality could not be provided on Power8 however client requested it be added to Power9. Complaint AA2998 is open for this client (a LUG member). Though they use IBM i, we don't feel that the operating system should be a factor in this RFE.

Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Carmelita Ruvalcaba Cevallos
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    Feb 6, 2023

    Clock Card, is not externally accesable. In addition, the clock circuitry has been significantly simplified which reduces the need for concurrent maintenance.

  • Guest
    Reply
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    Sep 27, 2018

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Power Systems
    Product - Systems Design
    Component - Systems Design
    Operating system - Not Applicable
    Source - Client

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Power Systems
    Product - Power Hardware Management Console
    Component - Product functionality
    Operating system - Other
    Source - Client